1. Installation and Upgrade Guide
  2. Upgrading Oracle Grid Infrastructure
  3. Downgrading Oracle Clusterware After an Upgrade

11.13 Downgrading Oracle Clusterware After an Upgrade

After a successful or a failed upgrade, you can restore Oracle Clusterware to the previous release.

Downgrading Oracle Clusterware restores the Oracle Clusterware configuration to the state it was in before the Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c Release 2 (12.2) upgrade. Any configuration changes you performed during or after the Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c Release 2 (12.2) upgrade are removed and cannot be recovered.

To restore Oracle Clusterware to the previous release, use the downgrade procedure for the release to which you want to downgrade.

Note:

Starting with Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c Release 2 (12.2), you can downgrade the cluster nodes in any sequence. You can downgrade all cluster nodes except one, in parallel. You must downgrade the last node after you downgrade all other nodes.

Note:

When downgrading after a failed upgrade, if the rootcrs.sh or rootcrs.bat file does not exist on a node, then instead of the executing the script use the command perl rootcrs.pl . Use the perl interpreter located in the Oracle Home directory.