Placeholders for defining patch path variables in the default start scripts produced by the Configuration Wizard. After you understand the sequence in which the start scripts in your environment are executed, and the locations from which start scripts are invoked, you can determine the script that must be changed and ensure that the correct values are assigned to all required patch path variables for all target server instances. A default set of scripts are provided to start WebLogic Server instances and to set variables for each WebLogic domain and the Oracle product installation.
These scripts are executed in a specific order, which is determined by the content of each script. The default set of scripts that are created for a server, WebLogic domain, and product installation. Starts Managed Servers in the domain. Patch path variables defined in this script are used by all Managed Servers started by the script.
When a domain is configured with Managed Servers, such as in a cluster, this script is the first one executed by default. Starts WebLogic Server instances in a domain. Patch path variables defined in this script are in effect for all domain servers except for those that are started. For example, if the previously-executed startManagedWebLogic script contains patch path variable definitions for Managed Servers, then the patch path variable definitions appearing in the startWebLogic script are overridden for Managed Servers started by the startManagedWebLogic script.
If the domain is configured with Managed Servers, this script is invoked, by default, by the startManagedWebLogic script. Sets the domain-wide environment for starting and running WebLogic Server instances. Patch path variables defined in this script are in effect for all domain servers not otherwise started by the startManagedWebLogic script, startWebLogic script, or other server-specific script.
The setDomainEnv script contains an invocation to the commEnv script to define settings for the domain that are not otherwise defined in the server start scripts or in the setDomainEnv script.
Sets domain-wide environment for starting and running WebLogic Server instances. By default, this is the final script that is invoked to define settings for servers that are started and that run on the installation. When you create a WebLogic domain using the Configuration Wizard, note the following about the placeholders for defining patch path variables in the scripts that are created for that domain:.
The setDomainEnv script contains the following lines, which are commented out by default:. The Configuration Wizard provides these commented lines as an aid to helping you place definitions for patch path variables. Refer to Table for the definitions of these variables that are included by default in the commEnv script. A start script should reference no more than one patch manifest JAR file for WebLogic system-level classes.
If a start script references more than one such file, unpredictable behavior may occur at run time. The startWebLogic and startManagedWebLogic start scripts produced by the Configuration Wizard do not contain placeholders for defining patch path variables. If you add a definition for one or more of these variables to one of these scripts, be sure that you understand which WebLogic Server instances are affected.
By minimizing the number of start scripts to which you add patch path variable definitions, you reduce the amount of maintenance required for those scripts if you change or upgrade the maintenance level or version of the installed product. The specific tasks you must perform to ensure that a start script references the classes or library files patches in a profile depend on whether the scope of those patches is intended for all WebLogic domains, and servers running on the product installation, or only for a specific domain, or server in that installation.
If you use custom start scripts, or if you need to limit the scope of a patch to a specific WebLogic domain, server, you must modify your start scripts as follows:.
To insert patches into the system classpath or library path for all server instances that run on a product installation, if you use custom start scripts, you must add references to the default patch profile to those scripts. To limit the scope of a patch to a specific WebLogic domain, or server, you must perform two tasks:. Create a custom patch profile, to which the patches are applied for the domain, or server that runs on a product installation.
In the start script s for the corresponding WebLogic domain or server, add references to the custom patch profile. To learn how to modify start scripts so that the class and library path patches you have applied are properly used, see Overview, which provides the following information:.
The distinction between patch files that must be dynamically loaded into the system classpath or library path and patches that are automatically in effect installation-wide. See also About Pointing Start Scripts at Patches, to find out how the default scripts created by the Configuration Wizard automatically insert class and library patches into the system classpath and library path. Understanding this process is important if you need to change your scripts so that they reference class and library patches appropriately.
Table Changing Start Scripts. The modifications required for start scripts to reference the class and library path patches that are in effect for all WebLogic domains and servers. The modifications required for starts scripts to reference the class and library path patches that are in effect for a specific WebLogic domain or server.
Creating a custom patch profile, which you must do before modifying scripts to point a WebLogic domain or server at patches. The Start Script Editor is a tool, provided by Smart Update, for locating start scripts in your environment and creating definitions for patch path variables in them. Smart Update maintains scripts in multi-product environments with different patch levels as expressed in combinations of default patch profile and custom patch profiles.
Accordingly, in the bottom pane, the script snippet shown is also product-specific, and targets myCustomProfile. A different snippet is provided for each type of path.
These paths include classpath, WebLogic extended classpath, and native. To use the Start Script Editor, complete the following steps:. In Smart Update, select a target installation from the Target Installation panel. Choose the patch profile to which the WebLogic domain or server will point. For information about using a custom patch profile to scope a patch to a specific WebLogic domain or server, see Chapter 9, "Best Practices for Distributing Patches.
Choose the product for which you are editing a start script. See Figure If you select Workshop for WebLogic, your WebLogic domain does not automatically download any of the WebLogic Server patches that might exist in that custom profile. You may want to modify these definitions, however, depending on your needs:. If you are modifying your script to point to the patches in the default patch profile, see Pointing All Domains and Servers at Patches Through Custom Scripts, for instructions.
If you are modifying your script to point to the patches in a custom patch profile, see Chapter 6, "Patching Individual Applications, Domains, or Servers," to learn how to create a custom patch profile and add pointers to that profile to the start script for a WebLogic domain or server. If your custom patch profile myCustomProfile contains both WebLogic Server and Workshop for WebLogic patches, and you want all of them to be active in a specific domain, you must first edit the domain start script to include a product-specific tokenized path declaration, similar to the snippets, but modeled on the declarations in setPatchEnv.
You must also include a concatenation statement similar to the one found in setPatchEnv. When adding a definition of a patch path variable to a start script, ensure that the definition appears before any statement that invokes another start script. For example, if you add a patch path variable definition to the setDomainEnv script, add it before the statement that invokes the commEnv script.
This placement ensures that the definition you add is not overridden by a definition appearing in any of the start scripts that are subsequently invoked.
Smart Update does not enforce or control how you modify start scripts. If, however, you use the start scripts that are created by default by standard tools such as the Configuration Wizard, and maintain them in the default locations determined by those tools, Smart Update can provide a more structured and predictable way to locate the appropriate start scripts that must be modified for the purposes of pointing to the patches in a patch profile.
The Start Script Editor dialog box is not a wizard; it does not perform the following tasks:. Detect all appropriate scripts that must be modified. If you use the start scripts provided, by default, by the Configuration Wizard, the Start Script Editor can help you find them quickly. If you have customized your server and domain start mechanisms, you might need to take additional steps beyond working with the Start Script Editor to make all the necessary changes.
Modify start scripts. The Start Script Editor displays scripts and suggests additions to them, but you make the final decisions about which modifications to make and where to save them. Use this dialog to locate the start script in which you want to add pointers from a WebLogic domain, Managed Servers, a cluster, or an individual server to the patches in a patch profile. In the Start Script Editor dialog box, the icons described in Table are used to guide you to the directory containing the start script you want to modify.
The parent directory, within a WebLogic domain, of the bin subdirectory in which, by default, the scripts you need to change reside. A domain subdirectory, such as bin, in which script files reside. To open a subdirectory and display the scripts in it, click this icon.
If you use the directory structure created for a domain by the Configuration Wizard, Smart Update guides you to the directories containing the start scripts that you need to change. To modify the start script for a domain, select the setDomainEnv or startWebLogic script in the domain bin subdirectory. Figure shows how to select the setDomainEnv script on a Windows system.
For information about modifying this script, see Table Table Modifying Scripts. To modify the start script for all Managed Servers in a domain, which by default includes all servers in a cluster, select the startManagedWebLogic script in the domain bin subdirectory, as Figure shows on a Windows system.
Table Modifying Script. Patch Set Updates PSU are the same cumulative patches that include both the security fixes and priority fixes.
Fixes for the other products that do not receive cumulative fixes are released as one-off patches. You only need to apply the latest, as they are cumulative. Critical update A widely released fix for a specific problem that addresses a critical, non-security-related bug. In the Summary of Servers section on the right pane, click the Control tab. In the confirmation pane, select Yes to start the server.
Verify that there is output for the three WebLogic processes showing that the WebLogic server is running. Oracle WebLogic Server. Oracle WebLogic Server is a unified and extensible platform for developing, deploying and running enterprise applications, such as Java, for on-premises and in the cloud.
Start Node Manager in it, as described in the preceding procedure. For a Windows operating system, run the config. If multiple patch manifest JAR files are referenced, unpredictable behavior may occur at run time.
Modifying the definition of a patch path variable in a start script is a convenient way of pointing servers started by that script at the patches included in a custom patch profile. Similarly, you can point a server or domain at a native library file in a custom patch profile by adding a reference to the directory in the custom patch profile that contains that native file. When adding a definition of a patch path variable to a start script, ensure that the definition appears before any statement that invokes another start script.
For example, if you add a patch path variable definition to the setDomainEnv script, add it before the statement that invokes the commEnv script. This placement ensures that the definition you add is not overridden by a definition appearing in any of the start scripts that are subsequently invoked. Smart Update does not enforce or control how you modify start scripts. But if you use the start scripts that are created, by default, with standard tools such as the Configuration Wizard, and maintain them in the default locations determined by those tools, Smart Update can provide a structured and predictable method of locating the start scripts that need to be modified and suggesting the specific changes that must be made to those scripts.
Figure shows two patch profiles used in an installation: the default patch profile and a custom patch profile. In this figure:. The default patch profile includes patches 1, 2, and 3. By default, all domains and servers running in the sample installation are pointing at it. If you want a server in a domain, or any domain in an installation, to continue to point to patches in the default patch profile, you do not need to change the start script for that server or domain if you use the default scripts for servers and domains provided by the Configuration Wizard.
If, however, you want one or more servers or a domain to point at a custom patch profile, ensure that the start script you modify affects only the targeted servers or the domains. For information about the sequence in which start scripts are executed, and how particular definitions of patch path variables affect servers started by scripts with patch path variable definitions, see Sequence in Which Start Scripts Are Executed. In a text editor, open the start script for the server for example, in a WebLogic Event Server domain, startwlevs.
When the modified start script is executed, only those patches applied to the patch profile specified in the script are referenced by the OSGi launcher. When you want to point a domain or server at a new set of patches you have downloaded, try to apply the patches to an existing patch profile, if possible. To change the set of patches at which a specific domain or server points, change the content of the custom patch profile that contains the patches.
This approach is always preferable to creating a new custom patch profile and modifying start scripts so they point to it. Avoid creating a new profile for each patch that you download. By keeping the number of profiles you create to a minimum, you can more efficiently take advantage of the patch validation and dependency checking capabilities built into Smart Update and the My Oracle Support Repository.
In addition, when you minimize the number of custom profiles you use, you minimize the number of start script modifications that you must maintain. As a result, the likelihood of introducing errors in your scripts is reduced.
In addition, the work required to remove patches is simplified: you simply update the appropriate patch profile; the need to update scripts is minimized. A start script provides a great deal of flexibility. The use of specific names and locations for start scripts is not enforced.
However, by staying within the default directory structure that the Configuration Wizard creates for a domain, and by retaining the location and structure of the start scripts that are provided, you maximize your ability to rely on Smart Update to locate and generate suggested changes for start scripts that are required when custom profiles are used.
In general, when pointing a domain or server at a custom patch profile, keep in mind the following guidelines:. Modify the start script at the most general level possible. For example, to point a domain at a custom patch profile, modify the setDomainEnv script, rather than each script that starts a server within the domain. When you implement this practice, you minimize the number of start scripts that you need to modify and maintain.
Never point a domain or server at more than one patch profile. Patch validation is performed within the boundaries of a single patch profile; it is never performed for multiple profiles simultaneously. Generally, there are no restrictions on the set of patches that can be added to a custom patch profile or removed from it.
Patches that affect installation-wide resources, however, are automatically placed in all existing patch profiles for a target installation. If you remove a patch that affects installation-wide resources from any single patch profile regardless of whether that profile is the default profile or a custom profile , the patch is automatically removed from all patch profiles.
If you have multiple profiles in a target installation, and you try to replace or remove a patch that affects installation-wide resources, Smart Update displays a warning.
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