1. Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning Administrator's Guide
  2. Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning Overview
  3. Fleet Patching and Provisioning Architecture
  4. Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning Targets

Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning Targets

Computers of which Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning is aware are known as targets.

Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning Servers can create new targets, and can also install and configure Oracle Grid Infrastructure on targets with only an operating system installed. Subsequently, Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning Server can provision database and other software on those targets, perform maintenance, scale the target cluster, in addition to many other operations. All Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning commands are run on the Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning Server. Targets running the Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning Client in Oracle Clusterware 12c release 2 (12.2), and later, may also run many of the Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning commands to request new software from the Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning Server and initiate maintenance themselves, among other tasks.

Note:

The Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning Server communicates with Oracle Grid Infrastructure Clusters at version 12.2.0.1 and later through an Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning Client that can be configured and started up on the target cluster. The Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning Client is not supported for targets at Oracle Grid Infrastructure version 12.1 and earlier, on all versions of Oracle Restart and database standalone targets, such as database homes without an Oracle Grid Infrastructure home or Oracle Restart home.

Parent topic: Fleet Patching and Provisioning Architecture