GOAL: Avoid long and time taking adop online patching cycle and apply patch in downtime to your run file system quickly
SOLUTION:
adop phase=apply
apply_mode=downtime << — Patch to be applied when EBS Services are down
patchtop=/home/8010_EBS/EBS_Patches/SUPPLIER_PEROFMANCE_PATCH << — Customer Directory when patch is unzipped
patches=4968075, << — Patch to be applied in English Version
4968075_AR:u4968075.drv << — Patch to be applied in Arabic Version
wait_on_failed_job=yes << — specified this would not burst out the patch session instead it will wait for DBA Action via adctrl
workers=8 << — worker numbers to be adjusted according to the target machine CPU threads
COMMAND TO APPLY WEBLOGIC PATCH:
adop phase=apply apply_mode=downtime patchtop=/home/8010_EBS/EBS_Patches/SUPPLIER_PEROFMANCE_PATCH patches=4968075, 4968075_AR:u4968075.drv wait_on_failed_job=yes workers=8
( Conditional ) After the patch is applied, You may Synch your patch filesystem by running adop phase=fs_clone
Also relevancy of this article must be checked/validated for each / different respective environment like Single / Multiple EBS Nodes etc.
NOTE:
One should make use of adop parameters to add with above patch command:
Primary App Node: allnodes=no action=db
Secondary App Node: allnodes=no action=nodb