How to Apply a Non Rebooting Patch to the Global Zone and Local Zones

A nonrebooting patch does not require you to reboot a node after you apply the patch on the node. You can apply the patch to a live system.

Steps

1. From one node, disable monitoring of every resource in the resource group that contains the zone resource.

   # scswitch -n -M -j resource-list

2. On each node where the zone is not booted, comment out the entry for the zone in the /etc/zones/index file.

   To comment out an entry, add the # character to the start of the line that contains the entry.

3. Apply the patch on all nodes where the zone is configured.

4. Remove the comment from each entry that you edited in Step 2.

5. Enable monitoring of the resources for which you disabled monitoring in Step 1.

   # scswitch -e -M -j resource-list