Novell patching October 17, 2005
Posted by evilzenscientist in : evilzenscientist, patching , add a commentI seem to have won the task of writing a short paper on ‘how to update and patch Novell systems in the enterprise’.
I’m working on this in conjunction with my ZENworks 7 Linux Management white paper - which is still being written. (Sorry it’s late - I’m on the road again!)
My summary so far is:
NetWare - use ZENworks Server Management. Deploy CPKs of the Consolidated Support Pack
SLES 8 - use ZENworks Linux Management. Mirror content from a YaST Online Update mirror.
SLES 9 - use ZENworks Linux Management. Mirror content from update.novell.com. Note: Make sure you have migrated your SUSE portal account!
NLD 9 - as SLES 9
RHEL - use ZENworks Linux Management. I know it’s not a Novell product - but mirror content from Red Hat Network using your RHN credentials.
There are probably some other platforms I need to add here - small biz server and some applications spring to mind - but I’ll be working off this list.
Comments welcome.
