Running OPatchAuto in non-rolling mode is an efficient and reliable way to handle complex Oracle Grid Infrastructure (GI) or RAC environments, especially when dealing with shared homes or non-rollable patches. This mode ensures full consistency across the stack by updating multiple components in parallel while they are offline, which significantly reduces the total maintenance window compared to sequential rolling updates.
# As root user
/export/home/grid/OPatch/opatchauto apply /path/to/72030 -analyze -nonrolling
The Message: "Cannot execute in rolling mode, as CRS home is shared. Execute in non-rolling mode." 2. Execution Requirements for Non-Rolling Mode opatchauto72030 execute in nonrolling mode exclusive
You are instructing the utility to: