OEM 13cR3: Patching 13.3.0.0.191015

In this blog I am going to take up the part of Patching my OEM 13cR3 Setup.


Download Patches below 
1. Patch 6880880: OPatch version 13.9.3.3.0 for EMCC 13.x customers Only (not for FMW 12c)
2 Patch 19999993: OMSPatcher patch of version 13.8.0.0.3 for Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13.3.0.0.0

3. Patch 30203475: EMBP Patch Set Update 13.3.0.0.191015

First two are Opatch and Omspatcher and the last is the system patch

Upgrade OPatch (2 minutes)

$ export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/OMSPatcher:$ORACLE_HOME/OPatch:$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH

$ unzip -qq unzip -qq p6880880_139000_Generic.zip

$ cd 6880880

$ ${ORACLE_HOME}/oracle_common/jdk/bin/java -jar opatch_generic.jar -silent oracle_home=${ORACLE_HOME}

Upgrade OMS Patcher (1 minute)

$ cd $ORACLE_HOME

$ mv OMSPatcher OMSPatcher.03_Jan_2020

$ unzip -qq /u01/OEM/Patch/p19999993_133000_Generic.zip

$ cd OMSPatcher

$ ./omspatcher version

Analyze the Patch (5 minutes)

$ unzip -qq p30203475_133000_Generic.zip

$ cd 30203475

$ omspatcher apply -analyze

If you face issue here - then you might be hitting any one of the below. (mostly the second one) 

EM 13c: Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control OMSPatcher Patch Analyze Error: OMSPatcher finds that it is not able to connect to OMS repository (Doc ID 2306317.1)

EM 13c: Applying a Patch to Enterprise Manager 13.3 Cloud Control OMS Fails with error code 235, OMSPatcher finds that it is not able to connect to OMS repository (Doc ID 2519247.1)

Patch the system (10 minutes)

$ emctl stop oms 

$ omspatcher apply 

Verify

$ opatch lspatches

Restart OMS
$ emctl start oms