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Exadata Patching - Cell Server

Cell storage patching can be done by patchmgr utility which is used to do a patching in rolling as well in non-rolling fashion.


Syntax: ./patchmgr -cells cell_group -patch [-rolling] [-ignore_alerts] [- smtp_from "addr" -smtp_to "addr1 addr2 addr3 ..."]


Here addr is the sending mail id which is used to send status of patching and addr1,addr2,addr3 are receiving mail id to receive the status of patching.

Step-1  First note down the current image version of cell by executing 

#imageinfo

Step-2  Go to cell patch directory where patch has been copied

/19625719/Infrastructure/11.2.3.3.1/ExadataStorageServer_InfiniBandSwitch/patch_11.2.3.3.1.140708

Step-3  Reset the server to a known state using the following command

./patchmgr -cells cell_group -reset_force


Step-4  Clean up any previous patchmgr utility runs using the following command

./patchmgr -cells cell_group -cleanup


Step-5 Verify that the cells meet prerequisite checks using the following command