[pca] Recommended patches and PCA

[Todd, Jonathan]

Martin

Your response was much appreciated and clearly explains the logic behind the way PCA deals with the Recommended patch set.

We have a large Solaris estate in which we can't get clearance to allow firewall rules to access the oracle support site nut do have access to the EIS disks released by Oracle. This means that we can't use PCA to retrieve the latest patch revisions from Oracle onto our management servers but we can set up a local distribution with the recommended patches on the EIS disk.

By using the 10_Recommended bundles on the EIS releases and their associated patchdiag.xref file the patching works exactly as expected if I use the --minimal option so our problem has been solved.

I do take your point about using the install patches script in the bundles however we find PCA an excellent reporting tool. All the servers for example have explorers downloaded each week to a central management servers and using PCA we can very quickly generate patch reports across the entire estate and create bespoke patch bundles that can then be installed onto servers in the DMZ etc.

Without gushing too much we have found PCA too useful to not use. It simplifies and standardises everything for us.

Thanks for your assistance with this.

Regards

Jon



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