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HP Tru64 UNIX Version 5.1B-2 and Higher: Patch Kit Installation Instructions > Chapter 4 Patching a Cluster![]() No-Roll Patching |
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The no-roll patch process lets you install patches on a cluster without performing a rolling upgrade. This chapter provides the following information:
A rolling upgrade lets you perform a software upgrade on a cluster while maintaining high availability of the cluster. To provide this high availability, a certain amount of setup work is required to build tagged files and to reboot the cluster members to use the tagged files. This can take a considerable amount of time. However, if you have a mission-critical environment and want to use a patch method that applies patches quickly, minimizes down time of the cluster, and reduces the number of reboots required, you might want to use the no-roll patch process. This process patches your cluster in one operation that requires only one or two reboots of the whole cluster to complete the operation. You will need the second reboot only if you install a patch that contains a version switch (see “Throwing the Version Switch”). The no-roll patch process is a modification of dupatch; that is, all patches are installed or removed entirely using the dupatch utility, as opposed to the clu_upgrade and dupatch utilities used in the rolling upgrade procedure. The no-roll process conducts significantly fewer operations than the rolling upgrade procedure. While a no-roll patch installation is in progress, no other critical operations should be running on the cluster because the cluster will change state and reboot automatically at various stages of the procedure. In addition, the no-roll patch procedure employs the use of the Tru64 UNIX Event Management System (EVM) to send cluster-wide events. As a result, patches must be applied to the system in multi-user mode. If you attempt to use the no-roll procedure while in single-user mode, you will be advised to change the cluster to multi-user mode before continuing. The following steps describe how to patch your cluster using the no-roll procedure.
After dupatch completes its patch analysis, it will perform the patch operation on the member on which you ran dupatch. After the patches are installed or removed, dupatch will issue a second event to the remaining cluster members that will instruct them to complete their patch operations in parallel. The dupatch utility then waits a calculated time-out period for all the other cluster members to complete their operations. The time-out period is based on the time it took to perform the patch operation on the member running dupatch. After the patch operation is completed on all other cluster members, dupatch will complete the procedure on the member on which the dupatch command was issued. If a cluster member times out or encounters an error, dupatch will report the problem, suspend the process, and send you a message to check the problematic member in order to resolve the problem. Once dupatch has resumed, it will complete the patch process on the rest of the cluster. If a cluster member is known to be down when you issue the dupatch command, an /sbin/it job will be posted for the member to run the cluster patch script upon reboot. (For more information, see the it(8) reference page.) Because all patches currently require a reboot, the whole cluster will reboot after all the members report back. If a patch applied to the system requires the use of a version switch, you will see a message similar to the following at the end of the dupatch session:
As indicated by the message, you must enter the /var/adm/patch/noroll/noroll_versw command from any cluster member. This is a manual operation that you must perform after the reboot is complete. All cluster members must be up prior to running the noroll_versw command. If they are not, the noroll_versw command will fail and the version switch will not take place. After issuing the noroll_versw command, reboot your system to ensure system integrity. You cannot use the no-roll process to remove inclusive patch kits because you must run the versw_enable_delete script (“Run Mandatory Script Before Removing New Style Patch Kits”), which requires that you reboot each cluster member to remove the patch kit. Because the no-roll process automatically reboots the system after deleting the patches, you would not be able to reboot each member as required. |
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