Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Opatch with RAC

I got to use Opatch for RAC today to install some one-off patches. That is a subject for later. Man, what a lot of bugs in 10.2. Opatch is cluster aware and will propagate the changes to the other nodes and relink Oracle on the other nodes. There is an issue however. You cannot have UNIX banners being used with ssh. This is the same issue that we ran into on the Clusterware install. So, we had to rename the /etc/issue.net in order to get Opatch to propagate the changes to the other nodes. Opatch actually works really well.