Do you have these issues with patching?

[Steven E. Protter]

I feel your pain.

After doing a new install last May and supposedly building an Ignite Golden image, I spent three months patching the sytem, rebuilding the image.

Then the applications started going in and I spent more time putting in more patches. The application vendors like Oracle have out of date and incomplete and superseded OS patch lists.

I REALLY feel your pain.

SEP

[BFA6]

Hi,

At the moment if a server is in production it is only patched if it has a problem. We do not have a test box where I can install patches & see what they do to the system.

There was one new server built with latest version of CD's and it still had 79 critical patches missing.

Regards,

Hilary

[Mark Greene_1]

I've tried to adopt an approach that is conservative without being lax. The only patches I install anywhere near immediately are the security patches. After that, it's the Quality and hardware kits, but one release down; i.e., when the June patches come out, I'll install the March sets including whatever superceded patches are out. This way I'm fairly well patched without being on the bleeding edge.

What irkes me is that a brand new box from HP is never fully patched. What's the point of getting a factory racked and OS-installed system if I still have to go in and patch the thing immediately upon delivery?

mark