I am installing the 10.2.0.5 Agent for Oracle Grid Control and found the following as just a little humorous. You see the one off patch is showing as optional. Now that would be good if I had been given a chance to choose to install the “Optional” one off patch, but at no time leading up to this little screen showing up was I informed that a one off patch existed and it was in fact optional to install it. Now I am not sure about you but Oracle has decided that a one off patch needs to be installed in the process of installing the Agent or any other software, then I am not likely to finish the installation and then first thing go and remove that patch as it is “Optional”.   Ok it must have been a slow morning to find it funny. Enjoy the thought that you can have optional when its not really. I guess I can now run OPatch and find out as the the merits and remove it if I want however that might mean other issues down the track so I think I will just leave the

optional patch there