topic Re: Patches - Recommended vs Most Recent in Operating System - HP-UX

Patches - Recommended vs Most Recent

CJENSEN_1 — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:21:42 GMT

What's the difference between the "recommended" vs "most recent" patch, on the patch download screen. Is the "most recent" patch just not completely tested yet, whereas the "recommended" is already proven. What do most people pick? The recommended or the most recent? Thanks.

Re: Patches - Recommended vs Most Recent

Mel Burslan — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:26:55 GMT

depends how cutting edge you want to be. On my production servers, nothing goes before it has 2 starts next to the patch name, unless it fixes a critical error that has already affected us.

one star or no star patches (usually the latest ones) as you guessed are sent out recently and their installed user base is not enough to warrant their robustness. Basically, they are "use at your own risk" kind of patches. They may be useful for some development purposes but their place is not in production for sure. And this is my personal opinion.

Re: Patches - Recommended vs Most Recent

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:30:01 GMT

Hi:

For a full explanation, click on the "Recommended" or "Most Recent" column when you select a patch.

Essentially, it is recommended (no pun) to choose the "recommended" patch if it meets your needs. The "most recent" has not yet received as much long-term testing.

See:

http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/wrap.do?pageKey=patch.html.patchDBCandidateListHelp&BC=patch.breadcrumb.main|patch.breadcrumb.search|

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Patches - Recommended vs Most Recent

Bharat Katkar — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:54:43 GMT

In addition to above, adding or updating a patch level needs proper understanding of the current application your servers are hosting and the role/affect of the patch you are applying.
Many times applying patch doesn't help your current state of your server as far as it's applications functionlity is concerned.
You may run into different issues if patches which are not required and are updated into system just because they are newly released.

Best would be to understand your application, purpose for which your server is running and the significance of the patch.

If it is not affecting the servers throughtput it doesn't make any sense to just keep yourself update by applying new upcoming patches continously. This may sometimes make your server run into problem.

Regards,

Re: Patches - Recommended vs Most Recent

CJENSEN_1 — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:29:59 GMT

Thanks.