August 2026 CSPU closes critical CVEs in the EM 24ai Agent - and patching the Release Update alone is not enough. Perl and two Middleware components require manual opatch steps directly on your target servers.

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.