The Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning Client is part of the Oracle Grid Infrastructure. Users operate on an Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning Client to perform tasks such as requesting deployment of Oracle homes and listing available gold images.

When a user requests an Oracle home specifying a gold image, the Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning Client communicates with the Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning Server to pass on the request. The Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning Server processes the request by instantiating a working copy of the gold image and making it available to the Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning Client using Oracle ACFS or a different local file system.

The difference between an Oracle FPP Target and an Oracle FPP Client is that the Oracle FPP Client has Oracle Grid Infrastructure installed and the additional rhpclient component enabled. This additional rhpclient component allows the Oracle FPP Client to initiate the tasks, while on Oracle FPP Targets only the Oracle FPP Server can initiate the operations. All the remote targets managed by the Oracle FPP Servers are known as Oracle FPP Targets.

The Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning Client:

• Can use Oracle ACFS to store working copies of gold images which can be rapidly provisioned as local homes; new homes can be quickly created or undone using Oracle ACFS snapshots.

  Note:

  Oracle supports using other local file systems besides Oracle ACFS.

• Provides a list of available homes from the Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning Server.

• Has full functionality in Oracle Clusterware 12c release 2 (12.2) and can communicate with Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning Servers from Oracle Clusterware 12c release 2 (12.2), or later.