I am now exploring the brand new Grid Infrastructure patching method for Exadata Cloud at Customer. With Exadata Cloud at Customer version 18.1.4.4, it is now possible to patch Grid Infrastructure with a few clicks in the GUI. Let’s see exactly which steps are performed.

First, with my preferred method (CLI 🙂 ), I run opatch against Grid Infrastructure home to check the current patch level :

28656071;OCW RELEASE UPDATE 18.4.0.0.0 (28656071)
28655963;DBWLM RELEASE UPDATE 18.4.0.0.0 (28655963)
28655916;ACFS RELEASE UPDATE 18.4.0.0.0 (28655916)
28655784;Database Release Update : 18.4.0.0.181016 (28655784)
28547619;TOMCAT RELEASE UPDATE 18.0.0.0.0 (28547619)

Since the GUI now shows when a new patch is available for Grid Infrastructure, there is a new Exadata Grid section with a precheck option in its burger menu :