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Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Database Upgrade Path

Grid Infrastructure Upgrade Path

19c

  • Oracle Grid Infrastructure upgrade from 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.4) to Oracle Grid Infrastructure 19c.
  • Oracle Grid Infrastructure upgrade from 12c Release 1 (12.1.0.2) to Oracle Grid Infrastructure 19c.
  • Oracle Grid Infrastructure upgrade from 12c Release 2 (12.2) to Oracle Grid Infrastructure 19c.
  • Oracle Grid Infrastructure upgrade from 18c release to Oracle Grid Infrastructure 19c.

18c

  • Oracle Grid Infrastructure upgrade from releases 11.2.0.3 and 11.2.0.4 to Oracle Grid Infrastructure 18c.
  • Oracle Grid Infrastructure upgrade from Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c Release 1 (12.1) to Oracle Grid Infrastructure 18c.
  • Oracle Grid Infrastructure upgrade from Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c Release 2 (12.2) to Oracle Grid Infrastructure 18c.

Database Upgrade Path

18 (all releases), 12.2.0.1, 12.1.0.2, 11.2.0.4
 Direct upgrade to 19c  is supported

12.1.0.1,11.2.0.1, 11.2.0.2, 11.2.0.3,11.1.0.6, 11.1.0.7,10.2 or earlier releases

Direct upgrade to Oracle Database 19c is not supported.
Solution: Upgrade to an intermediate Oracle Database release that can be directly upgraded to the current release. Upgrade Oracle Database releases that are not supported for direct upgrade in this release to an intermediate Oracle Database release that is supported for direct upgrade.

  • If you are upgrading from release 11.2.0.2 or 11.1.0.7, then you must first upgrade to the terminal patch set release for Oracle Database 11g release 2 (11.2.0.4), which is supported for direct upgrade to Oracle Database 19c.
  • If you are upgrading from release 10.2.0.2, 10.2.0.3, 10.2.0.4,10.2.0.5 or 10.1.0.5, then you must first upgrade to release 11.2. or 12.1
  • If you are upgrading from release 9.2.0.8, then you must first upgrade to a sequence of intermediate Oracle Database releases:

     

    Upgrade from release 9.2.0.8 to release 11.2.0.4. Then upgrade from release 11.2 to 19c

     

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How to Deploy Oracle Management Agents using Agent Gold Images

This post will introduce an  OEM Agent Gold Image feature, which is initially available from OEM 13c.  Agent Gold Image offers an efficient way for deploying and upgrading management agents in a environment with mass targets.

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How to Manually Upload a Patch to Enterprise Manager Cloud Control in Offline Mode

This doc demonstrates how to download and then manually upload a patch to the OEM 13c Cloud Control OMS (Software Library). This is the most useful for the environment where OMS couldn’t connect to Oracle support directly due to security or other issues, so the offline patching is enabled.

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How to Install Oracle OEM Agent Manually

Sometimes we need install OEM agents manually due to the GUI installation failure for various reasons.  This short doc demonstrates how to install OEM 13c agent manually.

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Check the Agent Status

[oracle@racnode1 agent]$ emctl status agent
Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c Release 3
Copyright (c) 1996, 2018 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Agent Version : 13.3.0.0.0
OMS Version : 13.3.0.0.0
Protocol Version : 12.1.0.1.0
Agent Home : /u01/app/oracle/product/agent/agent_inst
Agent Log Directory : /u01/app/oracle/product/agent/agent_inst/sysman/log
Agent Binaries : /u01/app/oracle/product/agent/agent_13.3.0.0.0
Core JAR Location : /u01/app/oracle/product/agent/agent_13.3.0.0.0/jlib
Agent Process ID : 18048
Parent Process ID : 18012
Agent URL : https://racnode1.virtuallab:3872/emd/main/
Local Agent URL in NAT : https://racnode1.virtuallab:3872/emd/main/
Repository URL : https://oemnode1:4903/empbs/upload
Started at : 2020-04-07 23:44:44
Started by user : oracle
Operating System : Linux version 4.14.35-1902.10.7.el7uek.x86_64 (amd64)
Number of Targets : 3
Last Reload : (none)
Last successful upload : 2020-04-07 23:46:07
Last attempted upload : 2020-04-07 23:46:07
Total Megabytes of XML files uploaded so far : 0.23
Number of XML files pending upload : 0
Size of XML files pending upload(MB) : 0
Available disk space on upload filesystem : 38.81%
Collection Status : Collections enabled
Heartbeat Status : Ok
Last attempted heartbeat to OMS : 2020-04-07 23:45:49
Last successful heartbeat to OMS : 2020-04-07 23:45:49
Next scheduled heartbeat to OMS : 2020-04-07 23:46:49

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Agent is Running and Ready
[oracle@racnode1 agent]$