From the inception of Oracle AutoUpgrade, our clear ambition has been to support all platforms where you can run Oracle Database.

We still work with this ambition in mind, and the latest version of AutoUpgrade lifts additional platform restrictions. Now, you can enjoy AutoUpgrade’s true awesomeness on even more platforms.

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Patching

You can now use one-button patching on the following platforms:

• Linux x86-64
• LINUX ARM
• Microsoft Windows x64
• Oracle Solaris on SPARC
• Oracle Solaris on x86-64
• IBM AIX on POWER Systems

How to Patch a Database

1. Ensure that you have the latest version of AutoUpgrade:

   wget https://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/otn_software/autoupgrade.jar
   

2. Patch your database using the instructions from my previous blog post or our webinar.

How to Download Patches for Other Platforms

You can also use AutoUpgrade to just download patches from My Oracle Support and you can download for multiple platforms.

1. Ensure that you have the latest version of AutoUpgrade:

   wget https://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/otn_software/autoupgrade.jar
   

2. Create a config file. Note there are two prefixes – one for Linux and one for Windows.

   global.global_log_dir=/home/oracle/autoupgrade-patching/log
   global.keystore=/home/oracle/autoupgrade-patching/keystore
   
   patch1.folder=/home/oracle/autoupgrade-patching/patch
   patch1.patch=RECOMMENDED
   patch1.target_version=19
   patch1.platform=LINUX.X64
   
   patch2.folder=/home/oracle/autoupgrade-patching/patch
   patch2.patch=RECOMMENDED
   patch2.target_version=19
   patch2.platform=WINDOWS.X64
   

3. Download the latest Release Update and other recommended patches for Linux and Windows:

   java -jar autoupgrade.jar -config download.cfg -patch -mode download
   

You can tweak it even further:

• Download for additional platforms by adding more prefixes. Check the documentation for supported platform names.
• Download one-off patches or other patches by adding them to the patch parameter.

Some useful information:

• If you omit platform it defaults to your current platform. If AutoUpgrade doesn’t support your current platform (like when you run AutoUpgrade on a Mac), it defaults to LINUX.X64.
• Rodrigo Jorge from my team has a good blog post showing how to use download mode.

Windows

AutoUpgrade has supported upgrading on Windows right since the beginning – with the exception of Oracle RAC. But now, this restriction is lifted, so you can upgrade your Oracle RAC as well.

For patching, AutoUpgrade also supports Oracle RAC on Windows. But for now, it doesn’t perform rolling patching (nor does it do so on any platform). You still need opatchauto for that.

Instead, AutoUpgrade performs an all-node patching. It brings down all nodes at once, which means database downtime.

Linux 9

The latest release also includes a few bugs related to Oracle Linux 9. You should be able to use AutoUpgrade on this platform without problems.

Happy patching