Am 19.02.2015 um 01:31 schrieb Tim Hosfelt:
Is there a way to download a list of patches. Due to security/firewalls I can only set up one server to point to oracle and I would like to use that server to download all the needed patches in the environment. My hope is to run the "pca --list missing" on all servers in my environment and then create a list of unique patch ID's I can download to the server. Put the into an NFS share and patch all my servers from that share (I also can't set up an apache server due to other security restrictions).
A local caching proxy would be the easiest solution, but you would need an HTTP server on the system which points to Oracle for that. Fortunately there are other options:
You can indeed create an NFS shared directory which you fill on the system which can connect to Oracle, and then share and use it on the clients with PCAs "--patchurl file:/nfs/pca/patches" option (use "xrefurl" for a central source of the patchdiag.xref file as well).
To pre-download the actually required patches on your local patch server it's best to use the method described under "CREATING PATCH REPORTS FOR REMOTE MACHINES" in the PCA docs. It allows you to run pca with all its options on the server with the package/patch information from the client. You would collect the output of uname/showrev/pkginfo from all clients on the server (maybe use NFS again), and then run "pca --fromfiles /nfs/hostA --download missing" in /nfs/pca/patches for all your hosts. At the end you will have a local collection of all patches missing on all clients.
hth, Martin.
