Stop patching Oracle Enterprise Manager 24ai manually. Ansible playbooks that automate the full CSPU sequence - pre-flight checks, backup, OMSPatcher, OPatch, Release Update, and Holistic Patch - with all interactive prompts handled automatically.

A kernel update on an OCI Base DB System left the node unreachable after reboot. SSH was gone. The serial console connection was the only way in - but it was blocked by the DEFAULT crypto policy on Oracle Linux 9. Here is how to fix both.