Please see the Patch Management Best Practices guide which my colleague, Enda O'Connor, has published on the BigAdmin Patching Hub. I hope you'll find it...
Please see the Patch Management Best Practices guide which my colleague, Enda O'Connor, has published on the BigAdmin Patching Hub. I hope you'll find it useful.Enda is a senior engineer in Patch System Test and he is far more technical than I am. Enda has more practical experience of patching Solaris 10 Zones environments than anyone else in Sun.Enjoy!
Please see the Patch Management Best Practices guide which my colleague, Enda O'Connor, has published on the BigAdmin Patching Hub. I hope you'll find it useful.Enda is a senior engineer in Patch...
Entry updated June 6, 2013, with new Solaris 10 Kernel PatchIDs, 150400-xx (SPARC) and 150401-xx (x86): Patch Rejuvenation When a patch becomes complex and...
Entry updated June 6, 2013, with new Solaris 10 Kernel PatchIDs, 150400-xx (SPARC) and 150401-xx (x86): Patch Rejuvenation When a patch becomes complex and unwieldy, it is "Rejuvenated". That is, no more revisions of the patch are created. Instead, further code changes to objects contained in the patch are delivered in a series of smaller, simpler, new child PatchIDs, each of which declares a dependency upon (i.e. requires) the parent Patch. This process is known as Patch...
Entry updated June 6, 2013, with new Solaris 10 Kernel PatchIDs, 150400-xx (SPARC) and 150401-xx (x86): Patch Rejuvenation When a patch becomes complex and unwieldy, it is "Rejuvenated". That is, no...
You can sign up to receive a weekly notification advising of new and updated SunAlerts .Sun Alerts inform customers of the most critical issues affecting Sun's...
You can sign up to receive a weekly notification advising of new and updated SunAlerts .Sun Alerts inform customers of the most critical issues affecting Sun's hardware and software.They cover Security, Data Corruption, and System Availability issues.Customers with a valid support contract will be able to access all Sun Alerts and patches which fix Sun Alert issues, including the Sun Alert patch clusters available on SunSolve which contain all Solaris OS patches which address...
You can sign up to receive a weekly notification advising of new and updated SunAlerts .Sun Alerts inform customers of the most critical issues affecting Sun's hardware and software.They...
As mentioned in previous blog postings, when applying patches to a live boot environment, the Solaris 'patchadd' utility may end up invoking objects which it...
As mentioned in previous blog postings, when applying patches to a live boot environment, the Solaris 'patchadd' utility may end up invoking objects which it has just patched during the installation of the remainder of the patch or patches. This can cause the system to get into an inconsistent state during patching, as the new objects may be incompatible with objects already loaded in memory. This is especially true in a Zones environment, where 'patchadd'calls the Zones...
As mentioned in previous blog postings, when applying patches to a live boot environment, the Solaris 'patchadd' utility may end up invoking objects which it has just patched during the...
First of all, let me say that my personnel experience of Sun'spatch automation tools is limited. I work upstream from theSysNet and Services groups who produce...
First of all, let me say that my personnel experience of Sun'spatch automation tools is limited. I work upstream from theSysNet and Services groups who produce most of Sun's patch automationtools, so I and my team mostly patch from first principles using thebasic Solaris patch utilities, patchadd and patchrm. Myteam does have some experience of working with some of the patchautomation tools. I've supplemented this with information from SysNetand Services folk. Sun...
First of all, let me say that my personnel experience of Sun'spatch automation tools is limited. I work upstream from theSysNet and Services groups who produce most of Sun's patch automationtools, so...
Sun changed its Software business strategy a few years ago. Customer's used to have to buy most Sun Software while most support, such as patch access, was free....
Sun changed its Software business strategy a few years ago. Customer's used to have to buy most Sun Software while most support, such as patch access, was free. Now, Sun's Software frequently uses a model similar to many Linux vendors, where the software is often given away for free, but a customer must pay for most support. From the perspective of accessing patches, patches which address Security issues remain free. So do patches which provide new hardware drivers....
Sun changed its Software business strategy a few years ago. Customer's used to have to buy most Sun Software while most support, such as patch access, was free. Now, Sun's Software frequently uses a...
As mentioned in my initial posting, there isn't a "one size fits all" patching strategy for all customers to use in all circumstances.Perhaps the most common...
As mentioned in my initial posting, there isn't a "one size fits all" patching strategy for all customers to use in all circumstances.Perhaps the most common question which customers ask is, "What patches should I apply to my system ?"The answer, unfortunately, is "It depends."Many factors determine what patching strategy is appropriate for a particular system. These may include: Risk profile of the customer. For example, Financial institutions tend to be very risk adverse....
As mentioned in my initial posting, there isn't a "one size fits all" patching strategy for all customers to use in all circumstances.Perhaps the most common question which customers ask is, "What...
As mentioned previously, Solaris Live Upgrade can help minimize thedowntime associated with patching, by enabling users to patch aninactive boot environment. ...
As mentioned previously, Solaris Live Upgrade can help minimize thedowntime associated with patching, by enabling users to patch aninactive boot environment. When all modifications have been made tothe inactive boot environment, a single reboot is required to activateit. Also, most Special Install Instructions specified in patch READMEscan be ignored when patching an inactive boot environment.When patching a live boot environment, certain patches require system downtime in...
As mentioned previously, Solaris Live Upgrade can help minimize thedowntime associated with patching, by enabling users to patch aninactive boot environment. When all modifications have been made...
Solaris Live Upgrade can be used to patch a system as well as toupgrade from an earlier Marketing or Update release of Solaris.Live Upgrade avoids many of the...
Solaris Live Upgrade can be used to patch a system as well as toupgrade from an earlier Marketing or Update release of Solaris.Live Upgrade avoids many of the problems encountered when patchinga live Solaris 10 boot environment as Live Upgrade modifies aninactive boot environment, rather than the live boot environment. This means that the live boot environment remains in a consistentstate throughout the modifications. Once the inactiveboot environment has been patched to...
Solaris Live Upgrade can be used to patch a system as well as toupgrade from an earlier Marketing or Update release of Solaris.Live Upgrade avoids many of the problems encountered when patchinga live...
