GI/RAC/Single Instance Announcing Deprecation of OPatch Command Option "-all_nodes" (Doc ID 2331762.1)

 This is applicable to all releases of OPatch.

 The 12.2.0.1.13 release (and later) of OPatch, which is used for all releases 12.1.0.x and later

 The 11.2.0.3.18 release (and later) of OPatch, which is used for all releases 11.2.0.1 - 11.2.0.4

 Beginning with these releases of OPatch,  OPatch will only support patching/listing inventory for local node  of a RAC cluster.

 There will be no propagation to other nodes in cluster.

1. In Opatch 12.2.0.1.13 and Opatch 11.2.0.3.18, OPatch command option “-all_nodes” will be no-op and existed in -help.

     If opatch command is being called with option “-all_nodes”, Opatch will print out the warning on console msg as:

     ""OPatch was called with -all_nodes option. The -all_nodes option is being deprecated. Please remove it while calling OPatch."

 2.  In future release Opatch 12.2.0.1.14 (and later) and Opatch 11.2.0.3.20 (and later) , Option “-all_nodes” will be removed from -help, user will get syntax error if specify the option. 

Alternative Feature of -all_node is available  for Multi-Node GI/RAC :

$ORACLE_HOME/OPatch/opatchauto report -format xml -type patches -remote

(The remote command will get a list of patches from all nodes)