Here's a Solaris patch presentation (updated July 28th 2009) which I hope will be of use to customers, partners, and field engineers.
It distills much of the information contained in this blog, including the recommended patching strategy, best practices, news on patching enhancements, background information on Solaris and the bug fix process, etc.
Patching isn't a one-size-fits-all operation, but I hope you find the information provided a useful guideline.
Posted on: Mar 26, 2009
Posted by: Gerry Haskins
Category: Sun
Tags: 10 admin background enhancements information news patch patches patching presentation quality recommended solaris strategy sys
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The objective of this blog is to inform customers about patching best practice, feature enhancements, and key issues. My goal is to improve our customers' patching experience in any way I can. Gerry Haskins, Director, Software Patch Services
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Great! I missed something like this preso for long time. I'll point customers to it now when they again ask how to patch ...
But I'm still very sad to see that somebody @Sun has killed the application which was best for the kind of baseline patching ever: TLP
Juergen
Posted by Juergen on March 26, 2009 at 09:09 PM GMT #
Hi Gerry! Great summary and rather complete overview about patching. I especially like page 39 :-)
Posted by Martin Paul on March 27, 2009 at 07:41 AM GMT #
Hi Juergen!
As you may know TLP is still on limited release for selected customers.
(For those who don't know, TLP or Traffic Light Patching is the patch automation tool used by Sun Services to provide patching services to customers. It's not a tool customers use directly.)
Best Wishes,
Gerry.
Posted by Gerry Haskins on March 27, 2009 at 10:26 AM GMT #
Hi Martin!
Glad you like it! :)
Best Wishes,
Gerry.
Posted by Gerry Haskins on March 27, 2009 at 10:27 AM GMT #
It is the best presentation.
Posted by Paul Orapin on March 27, 2009 at 05:14 PM GMT #
Excellent and comprehensive presentation of patching on Solaris. Finally, my boss will understand the 'why' ... I need a little 'extra space' to Live Upgrade :-)
Bye
Michele
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This is great! Thank you!
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