Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Installation Guide

Installing Patches

Ensure that you have installed all the required patches for your cluster configuration on each node of every cluster.

See Patches and Required Firmware Levels in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition 3.1 8/05 Release Notes for a list of required patches.

ProcedureHow to Install Patches By Using the patchadd Command

Perform this procedure from one node of the cluster to configure Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software on all nodes of the cluster.

Patch the secondary cluster before you patch the primary cluster to ensure that the patches work properly.

Before You Begin

Perform the following tasks:

Steps
  1. (Optional) To use the patchadd(1M) command to install patches, download patches to a patch directory.

  2. Use a directory named either /var/cluster/patches/ or /var/patches/ to contain the patches to install.

    You can include a patch-list file in the patch directory. The default patch-list file name is patchlist. For information about creating a patch-list file, refer to the patchadd(1M) man page.

  3. Become superuser on the cluster node from which you intend to apply the patch.

  4. Install any necessary patches to support Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software by using the patchadd command.