STM upgrade and patch PHCO_23261

[Donald Osbourne]

I have to do a firmware upgrade on a autoraid.
Before the firmware upgrade PHCO_23261 has to installed and an upgrade to STM from A.1.9 to A.2.9. Being fairly new I have never done a firmware upgrade which I understand is not a big deal but I need to put this patch on and do the STM upgrade and I will be alone in the evening. Just want to make sure I
can avoid any proplems if possiable.
How involved is the STM upgrade and how do
I back out of it if there is a problem.
I am assuming the patch is not a big deal
no reboot is required but I think I should wait
untill the outage to apply it. Any information is appreciated

[Ross Zubritski]

Donald,

Understand your concern, however, PHCO patches are "non-intrusive" 99.9994% of the time.

Regards,

RZ

[Steven E. Protter]

itrc.hp.com

patches

look up your patch, read the spec and check for reboot. Thse patches really are pretty inocuous.

Also look at dependencies.

If you've already downloaded it, sh PHCO_23261 look at the text file for this info.

If you are realy nervous, use make_tape_recovery to create an Ignite image tape prior to the update. This will give you the ability to recover from anything bad that happens.

SEP