Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Release 5 – Time for Release Update 2

Martin Berger

Since a few days the 13.5.0.2 Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Base Platform Monthly Release Update (RU) 2 is available to apply. Time to update my 13.5 lab environment at home to get a first experience about a lot of new features like Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Resource Discovery, Oracle Enterprise Manager Dashboards, Database Scheduler Jobs Metrics and many more.

Notes and Links

My Oracle Support Notes

  • 13.5.0 Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Base Platform Monthly Release Update (RU) 2 (Doc ID 2822316.1)
  • Enterprise Manager 13.5 Main Release Update List (Includes Plug-ins) (Doc ID 2760230.2)

Other Links

Patch Number 33456001

The Environment

  • Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.5 running on Oracle Linux 7.9
  • Oracle Enterprise Edition Repository 19.13 Single Tenant
  • Oracle Restart / ASM 21.0.0
  • Additional Oracle Linux Server with 19.3.0 Container Databases
  • All targets up and running
  • My Oracle Support connected
  • Patch software staged directory in /u01/app/oracle/stage/33456001

Installed Plugins

Verification by emcli. Plugins actually have release number 13.5.1.0.0.

$ export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/em13cr5/
$ORACLE_HOME/bin/emcli login -username=sysman
Enter password

Login successful
$ORACLE_HOME/bin/emcli sync
Synchronized successfully
$ORACLE_HOME/bin/emcli list_plugins_on_server
OMS name is rainstrasse.kestenholz.net:4889_Management_Service
Plug-in Name Plugin-id Version [revision]

Oracle Cloud Framework     oracle.sysman.cfw       13.5.1.0.0
Oracle Database            oracle.sysman.db        13.5.1.0.0
Oracle Fusion Middleware   oracle.sysman.emas      13.5.1.0.0
Systems Infrastructure     oracle.sysman.si        13.5.1.0.0
Oracle Exadata             oracle.sysman.xa        13.5.1.0.0

 

Prerequisites

For the readme:

  1. On the Repository Database, apply Database Release Update 19.11.0.0.0 Patch 32545013 and Overlay patch for 17777718 on top of Database Release Update 19.11.0.0.0. Or apply Database Release Update 19.12.0.0.0 Patch 32904851 or its later Database Release Update version patch.

  2. On Windows, apply Oracle Repository Creation Utility patch 33053642 on all OMSes.

  3. Ensure that you have the latest version of OMSPatcher version 13.9.5.1.0 for Enterprise Manager 13.5.0.0 release on all OMSes.

In my case I had to update OMSPatcher and his little sister OPatch. For upgrading these components, I recommend these notes:

  • 13.5: How To Upgrade Enterprise Manager 13.5 Cloud Control OMSPatcher Utility to Version 13.9.5.1.0 (Doc ID 2809842.1)
  • Patch 28186730: OPATCH 13.9.4.2.7 FOR EM 13.4, 13.5 AND FMW/WLS 12.2.1.3.0, 12.2.1.4.0 AND 14.1.1.0.0

OMSPatcher

$ export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/em13cr5/
$ $ORACLE_HOME/OMSPatcher/omspatcher version

OMSPatcher Version: 13.9.5.1.0
OPlan Version: 12.2.0.1.16
OsysModel build: Tue Apr 28 18:16:31 PDT 2020

OMSPatcher succeeded.

OPatch

$ORACLE_HOME/OPatch/opatch version
OPatch Version: 13.9.4.2.7

OPatch succeeded.

Software Directory

The release update is transferred to the local stage directory:

$ pwd
/u01/app/oracle/stage/33456001
$ ll
total 140
drwxr-x---. 18 oracle oinstall 4096 Nov 21 05:44 .
drwxr-xr-x. 10 oracle oinstall 4096 Nov 20 23:55 ..
drwxr-x---. 4 oracle oinstall 4096 Nov 13 05:24 32941631
drwxr-x---. 4 oracle oinstall 4096 Nov 13 05:24 32941662
drwxr-x---. 5 oracle oinstall 4096 Nov 13 05:24 32971615
drwxr-x---. 4 oracle oinstall 4096 Nov 13 05:24 32971629
drwxr-x---. 4 oracle oinstall 4096 Nov 13 05:24 32971644
drwxr-x---. 4 oracle oinstall 4096 Nov 13 05:24 32971692
drwxr-x---. 4 oracle oinstall 4096 Nov 13 05:24 32971710
drwxr-x---. 4 oracle oinstall 4096 Nov 13 05:24 32971724
drwxr-x---. 4 oracle oinstall 4096 Nov 13 05:24 32971751
drwxr-x---. 4 oracle oinstall 4096 Nov 13 05:24 32972346
drwxr-x---. 4 oracle oinstall 4096 Nov 13 05:24 32972360
drwxr-x---. 4 oracle oinstall 4096 Nov 13 05:24 32972370
drwxr-x---. 4 oracle oinstall 4096 Nov 13 05:24 32972378
drwxr-x---. 4 oracle oinstall 4096 Nov 13 05:24 32972412
drwxr-xr-x. 2 oracle oinstall 69 Aug 23 01:40 6880880
-rw-rw-r--. 1 oracle oinstall 65361 Nov 17 06:21 README.html
drwxr-x---. 2 oracle oinstall 92 Nov 13 05:24 automation
-rw-rw-r--. 1 oracle oinstall 7137 Nov 13 06:54 bundle.xml
-r-xr-xr-x. 1 oracle oinstall 979 Nov 13 05:25 pluginDep.txt

Pre-Check

Run the pre-check to analyze the existing Oracle Enterprise Manager system.

$ export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/em13cr5/
$ cd /u01/app/oracle/stage/33456001
$ $ORACLE_HOME/OMSPatcher/omspatcher apply -analyze

These warning messages about patches which can not applied can be ignored, I don’t have installed these plugins like SMF (Enterprise Manager for Fusion Applications):

WARNING: Could not apply the patch "32971751" because the "oracle.sysman.smf.oms.plugin with version 13.5.1.0.0" core component of the "OMS" or the plug-in for which the patch is intended is either not deployed or deployed with another version in your Enterprise Manager system.
WARNING: Could not apply the patch "32972370" because the "oracle.sysman.vt.oms.plugin with version 13.5.1.0.0" core component of the "OMS" or the plug-in for which the patch is intended is either not deployed or deployed with another version in your Enterprise Manager system.
WARNING: Could not apply the patch "32972412" because the "oracle.sysman.empa.oms.plugin with version 13.5.1.0.0" core component of the "OMS" or the plug-in for which the patch is intended is either not deployed or deployed with another version in your Enterprise Manager system.

Apply

1st – Stop the Oracle Management Server

$ $ORACLE_HOME/bin/emctl stop oms

2nd – Apply RU with OMSPatcher

As in some blog posts before, I don’t use a credential file, therefore the username (if not using weblogic which is default) and the password for the Weblogic AdminServer has to be provided. The job runs some minutes. The OMS will be started automatically.

$ $ORACLE_HOME/OMSPatcher/omspatcher apply
OMSPatcher Automation Tool
Copyright (c) 2017, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.


OMSPatcher version : 13.9.5.1.0
OUI version : 13.9.4.0.0
Running from : /u01/app/oracle/product/em13cr5
Log file location : /u01/app/oracle/product/em13cr5/cfgtoollogs/omspatcher/opatch2021-11-21_05-52-12AM_1.log

OMSPatcher log file: /u01/app/oracle/product/em13cr5/cfgtoollogs/omspatcher/33456001/omspatcher_2021-11-21_05-52-13AM_deploy.log

Please enter OMS weblogic admin server URL(t3s://rainstrasse.kestenholz.net:7102):>
Please enter OMS weblogic admin server username(weblogic):>
Please enter OMS weblogic admin server password:>

Enter SYS Password :
Checking if current repository database is a supported version
Current repository database version is supported


Prereq "checkComponents" for patch 32971615 passed.

Prereq "checkComponents" for patch 32941631 passed.
WARNING: Could not apply the patch "32971751" because the "oracle.sysman.smf.oms.plugin with version 13.5.1.0.0" core component of the "OMS" or the plug-in for which the patch is intended is either not deployed or deployed with another version in your Enterprise Manager system.
WARNING: Could not apply the patch "32972370" because the "oracle.sysman.vt.oms.plugin with version 13.5.1.0.0" core component of the "OMS" or the plug-in for which the patch is intended is either not deployed or deployed with another version in your Enterprise Manager system.


<some output here>

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<some output here>

7) Could not apply the patch "32941662" because the "oracle.sysman.emfa.oms.plugin with version 13.5.1.0.0" core component of the "OMS" or the plug-in for which the patch is intended is either not deployed or deployed with another version in your Enterprise Manager system.
8) Could not apply the patch "32972360" because the "oracle.sysman.ssa.oms.plugin with version 13.5.1.0.0" core component of the "OMS" or the plug-in for which the patch is intended is either not deployed or deployed with another version in your Enterprise Manager system.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OMSPatcher Session completed with warnings.
Log file location: /u01/app/oracle/product/em13cr5/cfgtoollogs/omspatcher/33456001/omspatcher_2021-11-21_05-52-13AM_deploy.log

OMSPatcher completed with warnings.

Verification

Get the Release Update Information, the inventory was updated:

$ $ORACLE_HOME/OPatch/opatch lsinventory | grep Platform
Patch description: "Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Release 5 Platform Update 2 (13.5.0.2) for Oracle Management Service"

Next Step

  • Plugin Upgrade
  • Agent Patch

Summary

Some weeks ago there was a presentation with all these new features like customizable dashboards. The update process himself was easy and straight forward as we knew from other releases. Finally the Release Update 2 is arrived. Let’s see in the next days what’s in the box.