Lee, Jarrett wrote:
How does PCA handle multiple clients checking in with the local patch server
simultaneously? What if two servers ask for the same patch before the patch
downloads completely? Does it have a mechanism that knows the original
request to download the patch has not yet completed?
Re: pca-proxy.cgi questions
My team has simultaneously patched as many as 1000 Solaris servers a night
through the pca proxy without incident.
As long as your infrastructure (i.e, network, pca webserver proxy) can handle
the load pca should function without incident.
My current struggle is
There are differences in the package sets between the maintenance releases that
patching can't solve. Your best bet is to use live upgrade to migrate from one
update to the current and apply patches on top. We've had to do a lot of that
where I work because a certain database installer checks
I see by default that smpatch uses /var/sadm/spool to download the .zip files.
Is there any problem with making pca's default download directory equal to
smpatch download directory?
Or asked another way are the patches downloaded by smpatch any different than
pca?
Thanks
Robert
