Local Management Server

A Local Management Server can be used to stage Patches, Installation files and DBA scripts.

On each target server where you intend to pull files from the Local Management Server set the PATCH_SERVE environment variable to the hostname of the Local Management Server. Ideally this should be set in the .profile for the 'oracle' user...

export PATCH_SERVE=mypatchserver

SSH should be set up to allow the target server to use scp to pull files from the Local Management Server

APEX Scripts

mkdir -p /u01/dba/apx; scp -pr ${PATCH_SERVE}:/u01/dba/apx/* /u01/dba/apx