Monday, November 16, 2009

How to know if a patch requires downtime?

1. Download the particular patch file
2. Check the file ..\\etc\config\inventory
3. If the following entry is present
(instance_shutdown) true (/instance_shutdown)

then it requires downtime.

Note: OPatch means rdbms patch.
For rdbms patch go to OPatch dorectory and select /etc/config/inventory