My colleague, Enda O'Connor, has written another useful article on Big Admin about patching using Live Upgrade, restrictions, and how-to use Live Upgrade to...
My colleague, Enda O'Connor, has written another useful article on Big Admin about patching using Live Upgrade, restrictions, and how-to use Live Upgrade to upgrade/patch from Solaris 8 or Solaris 9 to Solaris 10. See Doc ID 1019995.1 on MOS. BTW: Searching "Live Upgrade" under 'Search Knowledge Base' on MOS brings up some other good LU articles too.
My colleague, Enda O'Connor, has written another useful article on Big Admin about patching using Live Upgrade, restrictions, and how-to use Live Upgrade to upgrade/patch from Solaris 8 or Solaris 9...
Last week, the Solaris 10 05/08 (Update 5) Patch Bundle was released on SunSolve. The patch bundle provides another option to customers when deciding their...
Last week, the Solaris 10 05/08 (Update 5) Patch Bundle was released on SunSolve. The patch bundle provides another option to customers when deciding their patching strategy to maintain their Solaris systems. What is the Solaris 10 05/08 Patch Bundle ? The Solaris 10 05/08 Patch Bundle contains the equivalent set of patches contained in the Solaris 10 05/08 (Update 5) release image. Why use the Solaris 10 05/08 Patch Bundle ? The Solaris 10 05/08 Patch Bundle was created as...
Last week, the Solaris 10 05/08 (Update 5) Patch Bundle was released on SunSolve. The patch bundle provides another option to customers when deciding their patching strategy to maintain their Solaris...
It's important to consider Firmware patches when considering an appropriate patching strategy for your systems. In this regard, there's a new Firmware patching...
It's important to consider Firmware patches when considering an appropriate patching strategy for your systems. In this regard, there's a new Firmware patching tab on BigAdmin which you may find useful, http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/patches/firmware/ Firmware issues are notoriously difficult to diagnose, sokeeping up to date with firmware patches is a good preventativemeasure. Also, firmware patches also occasionally deliver support fornew features, such as LDoms (on...
It's important to consider Firmware patches when considering an appropriate patching strategy for your systems. In this regard, there's a new Firmware patching tab on BigAdmin which you may...
As mentioned in a previous posting, the practice of patch "rejuvenation" to break out large complex patches (typically Kernel patches) into smaller, simpler...
As mentioned in a previous posting, the practice of patch "rejuvenation" to break out large complex patches (typically Kernel patches) into smaller, simpler components going forward has a side effect of making it difficult to follow the sequence of PatchIDs. If you have the parent patch (e.g. an old Kernel patch), it's not obvious which child patches supercede the parent (e.g. what's the latest Kernel PatchID) as the parent isn't obsoleted by rejuvenation. Instead, the...
As mentioned in a previous posting, the practice of patch "rejuvenation" to break out large complex patches (typically Kernel patches) into smaller, simpler components going forward has a side effect...
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 October 30, 2020, with new Solaris 10 Kernel PatchIDs, 153153-xx (SPARC) and 153154-xx (x86): Patch Rejuvenation When a patch becomes complex and...
Entry updated October 30, 2020, with new Solaris 10 Kernel PatchIDs, 153153-xx (SPARC) and 153154-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...
Entry updated October 30, 2020, with new Solaris 10 Kernel PatchIDs, 153153-xx (SPARC) and 153154-xx (x86): Patch Rejuvenation When a patch becomes complex and unwieldy, it is "Rejuvenated". That...
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...
