Viewing Critical Patch Advisories

The Patch Advisor in Enterprise Manager describes critical software patches for your installed Oracle products. To help ensure a secure and reliable configuration, all relevant and current critical patches should be applied.

The Patch Advisor provides support for Remedies. When you select an advisory, you can view the calculated remedies from the context of that Advisory, as well as the affected Oracle homes.

The Patch Advisor also displays a list of available patches and patch sets for your installation, along with the name of the feature that is impacted. You can choose to display only patches for features that are used by your database, or all available patches.

To view the critical patch advisories and other recommended patches:

1. Using Database Control, on the Database Home page, in the Policy Violations section, view the count for Critical Security Patches.

   If any critical patches have not been applied to the Oracle home for the database, this section displays the number of critical patch advisories that are relevant to the Oracle home for the database. Also, a warning icon appears corresponding to the Oracle Home link on the Database Home page is the Oracle home is missing critical patches.

2. To view a list of available critical patch advisories, click the nonzero number next to the heading Critical Security Patches. Alternatively, from the Database Home page, select the Software and Support subtab, then, under the heading Database Software Patching, click Patch Advisor.

   The Patch Advisor page appears, listing the available critical security patches and patch recommendations by feature.

   
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3. (Optional) In the Critical Security Patches table, click a value in the Advisory column to view further details for that critical security patch.

4. (Optional) To view all available patches, in the Patch Recommendations by Feature table, in the View list, select the value All, then click Go.