Patching your Oracle RAC?

A good advice from Alejandro...

The last weeks I was involved on installing Patch 10.2.0.3 on 4 RAC environments.
Two of them were 32 bits and the other two, 64 bits.

On 32 bits the patch install went fine, on 64 bits after installing rpm Binutils the install worked fine also.

3 out of 4 environments started to work without problem after patch set 10.2.0.3.

But one of them started to suffer from ORA-00600: internal error code, arguments: [kcbz_check_objd_typ_3], [0], [0], [1], [], [], [], [] that triggered instance crashes with error 447.

Check it out...

Oracle Linux Management Pack ready!

I don't know what added value this may have against loads of custom-made programs and binaries which you can get from the internet or SorceForge BUT it still is a strong statement from Oracle to the Linux Vendors!

I will mention about its capabilities in my next articles on DBASupport.com.

Some of the key features:

Key Features
	Many-As-One Management: Group Management and Reporting
	Bare-metal provisioning of Linux servers
	Detailed configuration information collection and analysis
	Lights-out and ad hoc Linux operating system patching
	Out-of-box availability and performance monitoring
	Advanced monitoring and event management features (such as Notifications, Corrective Actions, Dashboards, etc.)
	Centralized Linux server administration