Lifecycle management

There are many routine operations that a middleware administrator needs to take care of. Most of these operations are repetitive in nature (for example, weekly backup of a system). Besides such operations, administrator needs to keep track of any critical patch advisories and needs to apply critical patches.

Some best practices for routine operations are discussed in the next sections.

Using the Critical Patch advisory

Typically, there are patching advisories published every month, these advisories contain all of the recommended patches for all of the products. Manually finding out which patch recommendations are appropriate can be a tedious task and can be prone to error. Also periodically, you will need to check for any new patch advisory.

Configure Grid Control for automatic download of patch advisories. Once these advisories are downloaded, Grid Control will evaluate and suggest only the patches applicable for your environment.

You may want to revisit Chapter 8,...