Re: Question on database fleet maintenance patching

I have written an ansible playbook but that doesn't help when the "datapatch" utility bombs. And that happens regularly with 12.2 Ansible is the same type of utility as chef or puppet.

On Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 20:45 <dimensional.dba_at_comcast.net> wrote:

> I have written Puppet code to fully patch Oracle databases with all steps
> being automated.
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> The whole point of automation is to make it a completely repeatable
> process and eliminate the need for humans for patching. There is much more
> valuable work for the humans than patching.
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> Patching takes about 15 minutes along with be able to patch multiple
> systems at a time so a singular human is much more efficient.
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org <oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org> *On
> Behalf Of *Clay Jackson (cjackson)
> *Sent:* Monday, December 23, 2019 4:33 PM
> *To:* oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> *Subject:* RE: Question on database fleet maintenance patching
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> Well, I suppose you could use some sort of automation/orchestration tool;
> there are lots out there, from DBMS_JOB to Puppet/Chef and lots of others.
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> But, do you REALLY want to trust patching your databases that presumably
> contain data of greater than zero value to some automated process? I’ve
> seen too many patch processes “go awry” to want to trust automation.
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> That said, of course you SHOULD have some sort of script that you run
> repeatedly (avoid typos or sequencing errors); but, automation as in
> “unattended” would not be my choice.
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> Just my $.02…..
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> *Clay Jackson*
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> Database Solutions Sales Engineer
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> clay.jackson_at_quest.com
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> *office* 949-754-1203 *mobile* 425-802-9603
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org <oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org> *On
> Behalf Of *Tharmarajah, Sam
> *Sent:* Monday, December 23, 2019 2:24 PM
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> *Subject:* Question on database fleet maintenance patching
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> Hi All,
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> We have been asked to reduce the number of personals involved during our
> quarterly database patching. I was looking into using the fleet
> maintenance. Upon doing a POC, I notice the process of deploying the
> software job, awaits for manual step run and confirmation at three
> different points (new oracle home dir creation, pre -root run section and
> post root.sh run section), in spite of providing the normal and privileged
> credentials . We are wondering if there is a way to have these steps be run
> as part of the process automatically, instead of running manually.
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> Example:
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> ./emcli db_software_maintenance -performOperation -name="deploy195"
> -purpose=DEPLOY_DB_SOFTWARE -target_type=oracle_database -target_list=
> xyz.com -normal_credential=FLEETMGR_STANDARD:SYSMAN
> -privilege_credential=FLEETMGR_PRIVILEGED:SYSMAN
> -input_file="data:/oracle/local/config/xyz.inp"
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> The .inp file
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> NEW_ORACLE_HOME_LIST=/oracle/product/195
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> workingDir=/backup/tmp
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> The databases we are trying patch is 19.x
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> We have EM 13.3c
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> Our advance thanks for all your thoughts and suggestions.
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> Thanx,
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> Sam
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