Monday, March 10, 2014

Fusion Applications P4FA Patches

 

High levels to apply P4FA:

  1. Shutdown FMW, IDM and DB (Transaction, OID and OIM database) services
  2. Backup Environment
  3. * Apply patches to FMW Oracle Homes (excluding ATGPF/Generic and ATGPF/Database patches)
  4. * Apply patches to IDM Oracle Homes
  5. * Apply RDBMS patches to Transaction, OID and OIM ** Oracle Homes
  6. Start DB (Transaction, OID and OIM database) services
  7. Apply RDBMS patches post steps (if any) on Transaction, OID and OIM databases
  8. Start IDM Middle-tier services
  9. Apply post steps on IDM Oracle Homes (if any)
  10. Bounce IDM Middle-tier services (ONLY if any post step on IDM Oracle Homes requires OID/OIM/AUTHOHS bounce)
  11. Apply ATG/Generic patches to ATGPF Oracle Home
  12. Apply ATGPF/Database patches to ATGPF Oracle Home
  13. Start FMW services (FA, BI, and other techstack components)
  14. Apply post steps on FMW Oracle Homes (if any)
  15. Bounce FA Domains (ONLY if any post steps on FMW Oracle Homes requires domain bounce)

* can be done in parallel
** If Transaction, OID, OIM databases share same Oracle Home, then apply RDBMS patches once and perform patch post steps (if any) on all databases.

 

CLASSIFICATION OF PATCHES:

FMW_HOME=${HOME}/APPTOP/fusionapps

P4FA Directory
ORACLE_HOME to be applied
Generic ORACLE_HOME Name

ecm_bucket2
FMW_HOME/ecm

biappsshiphome
FMW_HOME/bi

wc
FMW_HOME/webcenter

odi
FMW_HOME/odi

ses
FMW_HOME/ses

fusionapps/generic
FMW_HOME/applications

pfcore
FMW_HOME/applications

osn
FMW_HOME/osn

soa
FMW_HOME/soa
OIM - IDMTOP/products/app/soa
OIM - IDMTOP/products/app/soa

suwrapper
FMW_HOME/wlserver_10.3
OID - IDMTOP/products/dir/wlserver_10.3
OIM - IDMTOP/products/app/wlserver_10.3

weblogic
FMW_HOME/wlserver_10.3
OID - IDMTOP/products/dir/wlserver_10.3
OIM - IDMTOP/products/app/wlserver_10.3

webgate
FMW_HOME/../webtier_mwhome/webgate
AUTHOHS - IDMTOP/products/ohs/webgate
WEBGATE_ORACLE_HOME

webtier
ADMIN Host - FMW_HOME/../webtier_mwhome/webtier
APPOHS - FMW_HOME/../webtier_mwhome/webtier
AUTHOHS - IDMTOP/products/ohs/ohs
OHS_ORACLE_HOME

oracle_common
FMW_HOME/oracle_common
ADMIN Host - FMW_HOME/../webtier_mwhome/oracle_common
APPOHS - FMW_HOME/../webtier_mwhome/oracle_common
OID - IDMTOP/products/dir/oracle_common
OIM - IDMTOP/products/app/oracle_common
AUTHOHS - IDMTOP/products/ohs/oracle_common
OID_COMMON_HOME
OIM - IDMTOP/products/app/oracle_common
OHS_COMMON_HOME

pltsec
OID - IDMTOP/products/dir/oid
OID_ORACLE_HOME

idm
OIM - IDMTOP/products/app/iam
OIM - IDMTOP/products/app/iam

idmlcm/generic
OID - $HOME/Middleware/Oracle_IDMLCM1 (Only for Provisioned IDM and not for tarball based IDM)

oif
OIM - IDMTOP/products/app/idm
OIM - IDMTOP/products/app/idm

atgpf/generic
FMW_HOME/atgpf

atgpf/database
adpatch FMW_HOME/atgpf

rdbms_11.2.0.3.0
Transaction DB
IDM DBs