How to Check if a Patch requires Downtime

Solution

1. Download the particular patch file
2. Check the file ..\\etc\config\inventory
3. If the following entry is present
(instance_shutdown) true (/instance_shutdown)

then it requires downtime.

7 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 15, 2009 at 2:43 PM

    Hello,
    Could you specify do you meam rdbms patch or apps patch

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 16, 2009 at 10:37 AM

    OPatch means rdbms patch.

    Go to OPatch dorectory and select /etc/config/inventory

    Regards,
    Ramesh Mani

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  4. AnonymousNovember 19, 2009 at 7:12 AM

    Hi Mani,

    I got good information from ur site, and one question, some patches not having etc folder than how can we justify weather it is an downtime patch or not.

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