Upgrade and Migration Procedures for Replication Agent for Oracle

Replication Agent for Oracle 15.7.1 ESD #2 must be installed on the same host on which the primary Oracle server is running.

Using any of the upgrade procedures described here, the new Replication Agent for Oracle 15.7.1 ESD #2 instances will have the same configuration as previously existing instances, including instance names, administrative user IDs and passwords, and administrative port numbers.

Replication Agent for Oracle 15.7.1 ESD #2 does not have to be installed on the same machine as the primary Oracle data server. However:

Replication Agent for Oracle must be installed on a host that has access to Oracle LogMiner.
If Replication Agent for Oracle is configured to automatically truncate Oracle logs, it must be installed on a machine that has direct access to the Oracle logs.

Note: For upgrades within a common release level, as in the case of an ESD applied to a particular version of Replication Agent, use the rao_admin -u option applied to a particular instance of Replication Agent or to all instances of Replication Agent. See the Replication Agent Administration Guide.

You can use the ra_finalize_upgrade to manually force upgrade finalization of an instance from a previous version and prevent downgrade to the previous version. You must finalize the upgrade to enable any new functionality. See the Replication Agent Reference Manual for details on using the ra_finalize_upgrade command.