Oracle Critical Patch Update for January 2021

ORACLE DATABASE PATCHING – JANUARY 2021 UPDATE

The Critical Patch Update for January 2021 was released on January 19, 2021. Oracle strongly recommends applying the patches as soon as possible.

In this document we are going to see how to download and apply Jan 2021 patch.

ORACLE DATABASE PATCHING – JANUARY 2021 UPDATE

Search and download patch from oracle support site.

Go to Dashboard and then Patches and Updates.

Once window will open and it will ask for the product, release and the platform as shown below.

we need to choose 32228578 PATCH

Click on the download option to download the patch. As well as download the read me file. From there you will get an idea to moving forward.

MOVE THE DOWNLOADED PATCH TO ORACLE_HOME LOCATION

UNZIP THE PATCH – To get the updated opatch version

[oracle@trichy PATCH2021]$ unzip p32228578_122010_Linux-x86-64.zip

RUN THE PRE REQ BEFORE APPLYING THE PATCH

[oracle@trichy PATCH2021]$ $ORACLE_HOME/OPatch/opatch prereq CheckConflictAgainstOHWithDetail -ph ./

Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 12.2.0.1.19

PREREQ session

Oracle Home : /u01/app/oracle/product/12.2.0.1/db_1

Central Inventory : /u01/app/oraInventory

from : /u01/app/oracle/product/12.2.0.1/db_1/oraInst.loc

OPatch version : 12.2.0.1.19

OUI version : 12.2.0.1.4

Log file location : /u01/app/oracle/product/12.2.0.1/db_1/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch2021-01-20_10-21-26AM_1.log

Invoking prereq “checkconflictagainstohwithdetail”

Prereq “checkConflictAgainstOHWithDetail” passed.

OPatch succeeded.

[oracle@trichy 32228578]$ $ORACLE_HOME/OPatch/opatch prereq CheckActiveFilesAndExecutables -ph ./

Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 12.2.0.1.19

PREREQ session

Oracle Home : /u01/app/oracle/product/12.2.0.1/db_1

Central Inventory : /u01/app/oraInventory

from : /u01/app/oracle/product/12.2.0.1/db_1/oraInst.loc

OPatch version : 12.2.0.1.19

OUI version : 12.2.0.1.4

Log file location : /u01/app/oracle/product/12.2.0.1/db_1/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch2021-01-20_10-23-55AM_1.log

Invoking prereq “checkactivefilesandexecutables”

Prereq “checkActiveFilesAndExecutables” for patch 32228578 passed.

OPatch succeeded.

SHUTDOWN DATABASE AND THE LISTENER.

SQL> shutdown

Database closed.

Database dismounted.

ORACLE instance shut down.

[oracle@trichy PATCH2021]$ lsnrctl stop

LSNRCTL for Linux: Version 12.2.0.1.0 – Production on 20-JAN-2021 10:53:22

Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=192.168.1.22)(PORT=1537)))

The command completed successfully.

GO TO THE PATCH FOLDER AND APPLY THE PATCH.

BEFORE APPLYING PATCH EXPORT THE PATH OF OPATCH FOLDER.

[oracle@trichy ~]$ cd /u01/PATCH2021/32228578/

[oracle@trichy 32228578]$ export PATH=/u01/app/oracle/product/12.2.0.1/db_1/OPatch:$PATH

[oracle@trichy 32228578]$ opatch version

OPatch Version: 12.2.0.1.19

OPatch succeeded.

[oracle@trichy 32228578]$ opatch apply

Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 12.2.0.1.19

Oracle Home : /u01/app/oracle/product/12.2.0.1/db_1

Central Inventory : /u01/app/oraInventory

from : /u01/app/oracle/product/12.2.0.1/db_1/oraInst.loc

OPatch version : 12.2.0.1.19

OUI version : 12.2.0.1.4

Log file location : /u01/app/oracle/product/12.2.0.1/db_1/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch2021-01-20_11-45-30AM_1.log

Verifying environment and performing prerequisite checks…

Prerequisite check “CheckMinimumOPatchVersion” failed.

The details are:

The OPatch being used has version 12.2.0.1.19 while the following patch(es) require higher versions:

Patch 32228578 requires OPatch version 12.2.0.1.23.

Please download latest OPatch from My Oracle Support.

UtilSession failed: Prerequisite check “CheckMinimumOPatchVersion” failed.

Log file location: /u01/app/oracle/product/12.2.0.1/db_1/cfgtoollogs/opatch/opatch2021-01-20_11-45-30AM_1.log

OPatch failed with error code 73

CHECK THE OPATCH VERSION USING BELOW COMMAND – This patch requires a updated Opatch version.

DOWNLOAD LATEST VERSION OF OPATCH TO APPLY THE RECENT PATCH

[oracle@trichy OPATCH]$ ll

total 119552

drwxr-x—. 15 oracle oinstall 4096 Nov 6 01:20 OPatch

-rwxrw-rw-. 1 oracle oinstall 122415188 Jan 20 11:58 p6880880_200000_LINUX.zip

UNZIP THE OPATCH

[oracle@trichy OPATCH]$ unzip p6880880_200000_LINUX.zip

inflating: OPatch/auto/core/modules/legacyoui/com.oracle.cie.comdev_7.8.5.0.jar

inflating: OPatch/auto/core/modules/legacyoui/com.oracle.cie.gdr-schema_1.8.5.0.jar

inflating: OPatch/auto/core/modules/legacyoui/legacyoui.classpath.jar

inflating: OPatch/auto/core/modules/com.oracle.glcm.patch.opatchauto-actions_13.9.4.5.jar

inflating: OPatch/auto/core/modules/com.oracle.glcm.osyscore.automation_13.9.1.0.jar

inflating: OPatch/auto/core/modules/com.oracle.glcm.osyscore.validation_13.9.1.0.jar

creating: OPatch/auto/core/modules/features/

inflating: OPatch/auto/core/modules/features/oracle.glcm.opatchauto.core.binary.classpath.jar

inflating: OPatch/auto/core/modules/features/oracle.glcm.opatchauto.core.classpath.jar

inflating: OPatch/auto/core/modules/features/oracle.glcm.oplan.core.classpath.jar

inflating: OPatch/auto/core/modules/features/opatchauto-binary-classpath.jar

inflating: OPatch/auto/core/modules/features/oracle.glcm.osys.core.classpath.jar

inflating: OPatch/auto/core/modules/com.oracle.glcm.osyscore.utils_13.9.1.0.jar

inflating: OPatch/auto/core/modules/com.oracle.glcm.patch.opatchauto-binary_13.9.4.5.jar

inflating: OPatch/auto/core/modules/com.oracle.glcm.osyscore.model_13.9.1.0.jar

creating: OPatch/auto/dbsessioninfo/

inflating: OPatch/auto/dbsessioninfo/README.txt

creating: OPatch/private/

inflating: OPatch/private/commons-compress-1.19.jar

inflating: OPatch/opatch_env.sh

inflating: OPatch/opatchauto

inflating: OPatch/operr

inflating: OPatch/opatchauto.cmd