Using OEM to Patch a group of OEL servers
For an OEM server one can add the Linux servers that one wants to patch to a patching group and set properties for the group like automatically apply patches
Here we ask for OEM to automatically update hosts in the group.
We need to define a user with sudo or root privileges who will apply the patches.
We can define pre and post patching scripts
Here I define a daily schedule and put the timezone as my own home city of Calcutta (Kolkata) India
And finally I gwet to review my chices. Now my Patching schedule is ready to run.
And here are the OEM jobs that have been created to support this activity.
Here is a sample run of the update job. As you can see several packages were updated automatically.
I tried a manual update a short while later and there were no packages to update