On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Charles Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: > Since we have a maintenance window of opportunity when we patch where we are > free to reboot at will, we reboot all servers that are scheduled to get the > automated patch process, hoping that it will minimize the number of patch > failures, but also because if someone tries to say that our patching broke > their app, we should be able to show in the logs that the problem actually > surfaced at reboot, not because of patching.
None of my servers are on automated patching cycles or reboots. We manually run patches once a month, and reboot the servers then. I have a lot of systems that need specific shutdown sequences, initiated from a web console of the application (i.e., Lotus Connections, SAS, etc).
