Availability and Information Release Update 13.4.0.5 Since some days, the Release Update 13.4.0.5 for the Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Release 4 is available in My Oracle Support. Time to update my lab environment. Note: This blog post describes how to apply the RU on an Oracle Enterprise Manager 13 Release 4 Oracle Management Server which is running on an Oracle Linux 7.6 machine. Applying the RU for agents is not part of of this blog post. For agent patching please visit readme of Patch 31544641: Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Release 4 Platform Update 5 (13.4.0.5) for Oracle Management Agent. The RU for the Oracle Management Server is generic and the compressed patch file has the size of 964.6 MB. Useful…
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Oracle Enterprise Manager EM13c – My Oracle Support is back!
Since a few weeks, the online connection in Oracle Enterprise Manager EM13c to My Oracle Support was broken. This resulted in errors like Error occurred when sending request to My Oracle Support, for example when you tried to set the My Oracle Support credentials in a fresh EM13c setup. Existing configurations were not able to get newest patch information anymore. Oracle has documented it in the note Recent Changes to MOS will Disable Enterprise Manager Online Connections (Doc ID 2664002.1). Screenshot when trying to set MOS credentials in a new EM13c RU4 setup: Now there is a fix available for all current EM 13 releases, RU included. For more details see Patch Now Available For Recent Changes to MOS That Disabled…
Read MoreOracle Enterprise Manager 13c Release 4 – Time to Upgrade – First Experiences
The roll-out of the newest Oracle Enterprise Manager 13 Release 4 is a few days old, about time to try out the upgrade process in my ESXi lab environment. First: This blog post about the OEM upgrade process is based on my own experience. Software https://www.oracle.com/enterprise-manager/downloads/cloud-control-downloads.html Documents https://docs.oracle.com/en/enterprise-manager/cloud-control/enterprise-manager-cloud-control/13.4/emupg/index.html The Environment Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.3 running on Oracle Linux 7.6 – OEM Patchlevel January 2020 – Non-HA Oracle Enterprise Edition Repository 19.6.0 Single Tenant Database Oracle Restart / ASM 19.6.0 Additional Oracle Linux Server with 19.3.0 Container Databases All targets up and running My Oracle Support connected Software staged directory in /u01/app/oracle/stage/em13cr4 and permission changed to execute bin file (chmod u+x em13400_linux64.bin). oracle@kestenholz:/u01/app/oracle/stage/em13cr4/ [oms1303] ll total 12429656 drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall…
Read MoreOPatch 13.9 in EM13c – Say Goodbye to Unzip, Copy & Paste
Yesterday I wanted to apply a brand new patch to customer’s Enterprise Manager 13cR2 OMS running on Linux. First I updated the OMSPatcher as described here: How to upgrade the 13.1 Cloud Control OMSPatcher to latest version of OMSPatcher (Doc ID 2135028.1). This update was easy. Download, transfer, unzip and copy the OMSPatcher files to the Enterprise Manager ORACLE_HOME directory. Then the patch apply results in an error. OMSPatcher is based on OPatch, he needs an update too. We need a new OPatch Version This was error message for patch apply with omspatcher when I executed the apply command. [Dec 1, 2016 10:17:38 AM] Prerequisite check “CheckMinimumOPatchVersion” failed. The details are: The OPatch being used has version 13.8.0.0.0 while the…
Read MoreEnterprise Manager 13cR2 – How to apply Patch 23094292: WLS PATCH SET UPDATE 12.1.3.0.160719
My fresh EM13cR2 installation showed me that there is a patch for the Weblogic environment available. This patch was released in July 2016: Patch Patch 23094292: WLS PATCH SET UPDATE 12.1.3.0.160719. This patchset has included 157 fixes and is a generic one. The patch is marked in My Oracle Support as recommended. OPatch has no to be updated. This patch is not an online patch, you have to shut down your running EM13cR2 server. This blog post describes the apply of the Weblogic patch set update in an Enterprise Manager 13cR2 environment running on a Oracle Linux server. Prepare Patch Set Update on EM13c Server The patch file has to be extracted. I have copied to file to my EM13cR2…
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