Re: [SAGE] Pros/Cons of complete rejumstart v.s. just patching OS images

[Christopher Malek <cmalek@caltech.edu>]

My preference is to re-jumpstart everything to apply new patches, as this
ensures that my Jumpstart setup is in good working order, and is current.

For workstations, my rule is to try not to do anything manually, so they
always get jumpstarted for new system patches.   Although I tend to let
patches build up so that I can apply them in lumps (except for security
patches, which I try to do as soon as possible) so that I'm not
constantly jumpstarting things.

For servers, it depends on how much 'extra' customization I had to do to
them -- I don't have all my services installable through Jumpstart yet.
My goal is to have all my services installable through Jumpstart, so
that hopefully I can go from bare metal to fully configured system in
about an hour for most things.

This really depends on what an acceptable amount of downtime is for you
-- I can live with an hour's downtime on most of my machines.

Chris


On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 05:01:03PM -0500, Joseph Boyer Jr. wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
> Just wondering what people feelings are pertaining to patching the OS
> image or patching jump-start and than rejumpstarting the box.
> 
> 1. Would you handle servers and workstations differently?
> 2. Dose anyone have a way of minimizing the reconfigure (after
> rejumpstart) time of a server, i.e. Dbase machines, print servers, mail
> hubs? 
> 
> thoughts, comments, flames.
> 
> let me know!
> 
> Thanks,
> Joe
> 

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