How to Apply PSU/CPU Patching in Oracle RDBMS Home

Steps how to apply patches in oracle home 11GR2/2246888.1)

Step:1 Change ownership of patches. 

chown -R oracle:oinstall /u01/patches/BP
su - oracle

/u04/app/orapoam/product/11.2.0.4/POAM/OPatch/opatch version

Step:2 Check versions before starting

/u04/app/orapoam/product/11.2.0.4/POAM/OPatch/opatch lsinventory -oh /u04/app/orapoam/product/11.2.0.4/POAM > /tmp/database1.lsinventory.before
/u04/app/orapoam/product/11.2.0.4/POAM/OPatch/opatch lspatches -oh /u04/app/orapoam/product/11.2.0.4/POAM

Step:3 Stop the database and listener before start below process

/u04/app/orapoam/product/11.2.0.4/POAM/OPatch/ocm/bin/emocmrsp -output /u01/patches/BP/ocm.rsp

/u01/patches/BP/27980213/27441052/custom/server/27441052/custom/scripts/prepatch.sh -dbhome /u04/app/orapoam/product/11.2.0.4/POAM

Step:4 Applied patches.

/u04/app/orapoam/product/11.2.0.4/POAM/OPatch/opatch napply -oh /u04/app/orapoam/product/11.2.0.4/POAM -local -silent -ocmrf /u01/patches/BP/ocm.rsp /u01/patches/BP/27980213/27734978

/u04/app/orapoam/product/11.2.0.4/POAM/OPatch/opatch napply -oh /u04/app/orapoam/product/11.2.0.4/POAM -local -silent -ocmrf /u01/patches/BP/ocm.rsp /u01/patches/BP/27980213/27441052/custom/server/27441052

/u01/patches/BP/27980213/27441052/custom/server/27441052/custom/scripts/postpatch.sh -dbhome /u04/app/orapoam/product/11.2.0.4/POAM

>> Install OHVM patches if it is required.

Install OJVM
/u04/app/orapoam/product/11.2.0.4/POAM/OPatch/opatch apply -oh /u04/app/orapoam/product/11.2.0.4/POAM -local -silent -ocmrf /u01/patches/BP/ocm.rsp /u01/patches/ONEOFF/27923163

Check Results
/u04/app/orapoam/product/11.2.0.4/POAM/OPatch/opatch lspatches -oh /u04/app/orapoam/product/11.2.0.4/POAM
exit