Patch mamagement

> OK, what is the best way to update several (200-300)

> systems on patches and software. I have many solaris

> 8 and 9 systems and some solaris 10. Need to update

> java and various patches.

It's not on me to decide whether it's the best way, but

I'd recommend you take a look at pca:

http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/

I'm the author, so I'm biased, but from the feedback I receive

I can tell that many admins prefer pca over Sun's tools (which,

I'm sure, will be recommended by someone else in another

posting as well :).

It will run on all Solaris releases, so you can use the same

tool everywhere. Like with Sun tools, you can have a local

patch server to download each patch only once.

Using its "safe" mode for patch installation (--safe), you can

be pretty sure that installing a patch won't overwrite any files

modified on your machines.

mp.

Martin_Paula at 2007-7-9 5:04:05 >