Entries tagged with 'patching'

If you think Solaris patching is a complete nightmare, have a bit of spare time on your hands (don’t worry, you can still check emails etc) and really want to get up speed on Sun’s best practices for patching on Solaris 10, then check out the FREE Solaris 10 Patching Best Practices (WS-2700-S10) training course.
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It’s with great delight I read that the Solaris 10 Recommended and SunAlert patch clusters have been improved. Ed Clark has sat down and finally improved the install_cluster script, now called installcluster, and the cleaned up the directory structure. The whole build and verification process has been improved too.
The improvements are quite significant [...]

As promised on Friday, I’ve taken the plunge and tested applying the latest patch cluster to a fresh Solaris 10u5 installation running 10 zones using the new zones parallel patching feature.
To speed things up and to try and prevent any problems I performed the following steps:

Jumpstarted the OS (SUNWCuser cluster)
Applied patches 125555-04 and 119254-66 (gives [...]

If you’re running a fair few non-global zones on Solaris 10, you’ll know full well how painfully slow the patching process is. Well, I’m please to say “not any more”.
The Zones Parallel Patching feature was officially released on Tuesday and is contained in the latest Solaris 10 patch utilities patch, 119254-66 (SPARC) and 119255-66 [...]

Links of interest for 12 May 2009 - 1 Jun 2009:

Sun Security Toolkit at OpenSolaris.org - The SST (aka JASS) is now open source (under CDDL) and available for OpenSolaris too.
Parallel Patching for Solaris 10 - Chris Armes’s Weblog - This is a godsend if you've got a system with a lot of zones that [...]

Links of interest for 25 Mar 2009 - 2 Apr 2009:

Toshiba OpenSolaris Laptops - You can now get your hands on the much touted Opensolaris Toshiba laptops. Sadly, it#039;s US only at the mo with UK availability expected sometime in May 2009. I guess I#039;ll have to wait a bit, but it#039;ll be [...]