10 Apply WLS Patches

Overview

I tried to apply the recommended patches for OMS and WLS.

References

Procedure

Apply WebLogic Recommended Patches

Recommended Patches

I went to Patches & Updates via the following menu tree:

I changed the view to be by target, and then clicked on Oracle WebLogic Server as follows:

Then, OEM Console recommended the following patches:

For some reason, patch 17572726 is mentioned twice.

OEM Assisted Patching

I select all three (3) patches by using shift-click, and select Add to New... from the pop-up menu as shown below, and then click Create Plan :

I enter Patch_WLS_2014_03 in the pop-up dialogue box as follows:

The following dialogue box pops up, and I click Add All to Plan .

And the plan could not be created for the following reasons:

I clicked Close to finish the sequence.

Manual Patching

The README files for the following patches all refer to the Smart Update Utility:

The README for patch 16420963 only specifies WLS 10.3.6.0 as the base. I assume I can apply the PSU first, then this patch.

Download Patches

I downloaded p17572726_1036_Generic.zip and p16420963_1036_Generic.zip into /tmp on CRONULLA .

Locating Smart Utility Components

From the procedure given in MOS Doc ID 876004.1 , I needed two (2) components:

Cache directory
Smart Update utility

The cache directory for WebLogic is located at:

/opt/app/oracle/em/middleware/utils/bsu/cache_dir

The Smart Update Utility is located at:

/opt/app/oracle/em/middleware/utils/bsu/bsu.sh

Extract the Contents of the Patch into the Cache Directory

Use the following command to extract the contents of the patch files into the Smart Update cache directory discovered above:

unzip -q -d /opt/app/oracle/em/middleware/utils/bsu/cache_dir /tmp/p16420963_1036_Generic.zip
unzip -q -d /opt/app/oracle/em/middleware/utils/bsu/cache_dir /tmp/p17572726_1036_Generic.zip

The log is:

[oracle@cronulla ~]$ unzip -q -d /opt/app/oracle/em/middleware/utils/bsu/cache_dir /tmp/p16420963_1036_Generic.zip
replace /opt/app/oracle/em/middleware/utils/bsu/cache_dir/README.txt? [y]es, [n]o, [A]ll, [N]one, [r]ename: A
[oracle@cronulla ~]$ unzip -q -d /opt/app/oracle/em/middleware/utils/bsu/cache_dir /tmp/p17572726_1036_Generic.zip
replace /opt/app/oracle/em/middleware/utils/bsu/cache_dir/README.txt? [y]es, [n]o, [A]ll, [N]one, [r]ename: A
[oracle@cronulla ~]$ ls -l /opt/app/oracle/em/middleware/utils/bsu/cache_dir
total 115388
-rw-r--r--. 1 oracle oinstall    40169 Mar  9 20:17 6D9T.jar
-rw-r--r--. 1 oracle oinstall 65791628 Nov 20 03:33 FCX7.jar
-rw-r--r--. 1 oracle oinstall    77140 Jul  9  2013 GDFA.jar
-rw-r--r--. 1 oracle oinstall  7973923 Mar  9 20:17 patch-catalog_17651.xml
-rw-r--r--. 1 oracle oinstall  9329417 Mar  9 20:17 patch-catalog_18890.xml
-rw-r--r--. 1 oracle oinstall 11357549 Jul  9  2013 patch-catalog_19969.xml
-rw-r--r--. 1 oracle oinstall 14233335 Nov 20 03:33 patch-catalog_20741.xml
-rw-r--r--. 1 oracle oinstall  9329417 Mar  9 20:19 patch-catalog.xml
-rw-rw-r--. 1 oracle oinstall     6641 Jan  6 20:05 README.txt
-rw-r--r--. 1 oracle oinstall     5030 Mar  9 20:17 SRUM.jar

Find the WebLogic Home

I use the monitoring configuration for the following targets to get the WebLogic home ( /opt/app/oracle/em/middleware/wlserver_10.3 ):

EMGC_ADMINSERVER
EMGC_OMS1

View the Downloaded Patches

Using the Command-line interface as described in MOS Doc ID 876004.1 , I ran the following command to view the downloaded patches:

cd /opt/app/oracle/em/middleware/utils/bsu
./bsu.sh -prod_dir=/opt/app/oracle/em/middleware/wlserver_10.3 -patch_download_dir=cache_dir -status=downloaded -view -verbose

The following output is returned:

ProductName:       WebLogic Server
ProductVersion:    10.3 MP6
Components:        WebLogic Server/Core Application Server,WebLogic Server/Admi
                   nistration Console,WebLogic Server/Configuration Wizard and
                   Upgrade Framework,WebLogic Server/Web 2.0 HTTP Pub-Sub Serve
                   r,WebLogic Server/WebLogic SCA,WebLogic Server/WebLogic JDBC
                    Drivers,WebLogic Server/Third Party JDBC Drivers,WebLogic S
                   erver/WebLogic Server Clients,WebLogic Server/WebLogic Web S
                   erver Plugins,WebLogic Server/UDDI and Xquery Support,WebLog
                   ic Server/Server Examples,WebLogic Server/Evaluation Databas
                   e,WebLogic Server/Workshop Code Completion Support
BEAHome:           /opt/app/oracle/em/middleware
ProductHome:       /opt/app/oracle/em/middleware/wlserver_10.3
PatchSystemDir:    /opt/app/oracle/em/middleware/utils/bsu
PatchDir:          /opt/app/oracle/em/middleware/patch_wls1036
Profile:           Default
DownloadDir:       cache_dir
JavaVersion:       1.6.0_29
JavaVendor:        Sun


Patch ID:          FCX7
PatchContainer:    FCX7.jar
Checksum:          1694447594
Severity:          optional
Category:          General
CR/BUG:            17572726
Restart:           true
Description:       WLS PATCH SET UPDATE 10.3.6.0.7
WLS PATCH SET UPDATE 10.3.6
                   .0.7

Patch ID:          GDFA
PatchContainer:    GDFA.jar
Checksum:          -1126437766
Severity:          optional
Category:          JMS
CR/BUG:            16420963
Restart:           true
Description:       WEBLOGIC.STORE.PERSISTENTSTOREEXCEPTION: [STORE:280040] OCCU
                   RS EASILEY
WEBLOGIC.STORE.PERSISTENTSTOREEXCEPTION: [STORE:2
                   80040] OCCURS EASILEY

Install the Patches

Using the Command-line interface as described in MOS Doc ID 876004.1 , I ran the following command to view the downloaded patches:

cd /opt/app/oracle/em/middleware/utils/bsu
./bsu.sh -prod_dir=/opt/app/oracle/em/middleware/wlserver_10.3 -patchlist=FCX7,GDFA -verbose -install

The following output is returned:

Checking for conflicts..
Conflict(s) detected - resolve conflict condition and execute patch installation again
Conflict condition details follow:
Patch FCX7 is mutually exclusive and cannot coexist with patch(es): SRUM,6D9T