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Solaris Deferred Activation Patching (DAP)

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With DAP the reboot is deferred until all patching is completed unlike non-DAP kernel patches which forced reboot before other patches can be applied.

Patching Solaris with Sun Patch Manager 2

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Sun have decided to terminate (end-of-support) Patch Manager 2.0 support. You are now recommended to use Sun Update Manager instead.

Veritas File System (VxFS) Y2K Info

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Y2000 Compliance requires patched version 3.2.5 or later. The patched versions are down-loadable free of charge from the following ftp sites.

Removing NIS from a Solaris system

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This is a simple article providing a quick procedure to remove NIS completely from a Master Server, Slave Server, and NIS clients.

How to download EMC NetWorker cumulative hotfixes

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Cumulative hotfixes are periodically issued. They combine various individual hotfixes that might have an impact on customer production environments

Solaris Software Patches

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Patches are identified by unique alphanumeric strings. The patch base code, then a hyphen, and then a number that represents the patch revision number

Building a Solaris 11 IPS Server

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Maintaining a copy of the Solaris distribution is a good way to ensure all your systems have access to updates and software packages.

EMC NetWorker Modules go End-of-Life

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Several legacy EMC NetWorker application modules go End-of-Sale on June 30, 2011 and will no longer be available for purchase.

Avamar 7.1 Service Pack 1 Refresh

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EMC today released of Avamar 7.1 SP1. This refresh is a maintenance release with critical fixes for previously reported issues

Patching Solaris 10 zones in parallel

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Every sysadmin that has upgraded or patched a system running multiples zones will tell it, the upgrade was an undefinably long process.

Patching Solaris with PCA

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Not only does PCA generate a list of patches and downloads them, it also resolves dependencies between patches and installs them in the correct order