Monday, February 14, 2011

Patch Add Steps

Patch add steps

1) Need to take the backup filesystem through ufsdump or , 
need to remove one of the root mirror from the server .

2) Need to check the current patch version on the server .

# uname -a ( For kernel patch )

# showrev -p ( For other patches )

3) Check the latest patch in http://sunsolve.sun.com 

4) Gothrough the Read me file 

5) Boot the server in to the single user mode 

#shutdown -g0 -y -i1 ( or #init 0 & ok boot -s )

6) Install the patch 

#Patchadd < Ptach >

7) Down the machine in to the OBP using #init 0

8) Do the reconfiguration boot 

#boot -r 

9) Check the patch is updated pr not