Monday, April 30, 2012

Using Distributed AD for 12.1.1 upgrade


Using Distributed AD for 12.1.1 upgrade

200 Workers, 40 per node  for 5 node

adpatch options=nocopyportion,nogenerateportion logfile=u6678700.log driver=u6678700.drv workers=200 localworkers=40

node 2
adctrl distributed=y
enter answeres for prompts.
Enter the worker range: 41-80

node 3
adctrl distributed=y
enter answeres for prompts.
Enter the worker range: 81-120

node 4
adctrl distributed=y
enter answeres for prompts.
Enter the worker range: 121-160

node 5
adctrl distributed=y
enter answeres for prompts.
Enter the worker range: 161-200

You don't have to restart adctrl on other nodes even if you restart the patch, from node 1, unless you have bounced the DB.  Number for workers depends on the capacity of your servers.