Questions About Using OPatch Auto In A Mixed Release Cluster
We are 11.2.0.3 GI with RAC RDBMS and some single-instances, all releases between 11.2.0.1 and 11.2.0.3. All nodes run rhel5; Linux x86-64. One UID (oracle) owns all the binaries and ASM devices.
I want to use opatch auto as much as possible to cover GI and the databases of the same release. In a mixed-release environment, will opatch auto both skip the instances at < 11.2.0.3 and take these offline? Or must I take these older instances offline first?
Does opatch auto support listing multiple Oracle HOMEs if the first one is the GI HOME? For example, will this work: opatch auto . -oh $GRID_HOME, $ORACLE_HOME1, $ORACLE_HOME2? I see it listed as an option for opatch (without auto), but not under opatch auto.