[pca] EXTERNAL: Re: Can not exclude 144500-19!?

[Tate, Robert B]

We are running EMC PowerPath and also have Hitachi HDS on some of the servers here. The Panic loop happened last week on the 17th so the new patch wasn't out yet. I will look at 125555-11 and make sure it is applied before 144500-19 is attempted.

Thank you Don

Bob Tate

From: pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at [mailto:pca-bounces at lists.univie.ac.at] On Behalf Of Don O'Malley
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 6:50 AM
To: PCA (Patch Check Advanced) Discussion
Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [pca] Can not exclude 144500-19!?

Hi Robert,

I'll leave the whitelist/blacklist stuff to Martin.

I'm more interested in why you're ending up in the panic loop!

Are you running EMC PowerPath?
If so - check out https://support.oracle.com/CSP/main/article?cmd=show&type=NOT&id=1358671.1
We have also seen similar nasty reactions to 144500-19 with the following multipathing products:

  *   Hitachi HDS
  *   Falconstor
  *   Dynapath
  *   CA Access Control SeOS
It seems like in all cases the problem occurs when the multipathing product uses a private Solaris interface, which patch 144500-19 changes.

Bottom line is that patch 144500-19 is not compatible with the effected products.
To try prevent customers hitting the most prevalent of these issues, which is EMC PowerPath, we have worked with EMC to construct logic which will prevent patch 144500-19 from applying to susceptible systems.

This logic is delivered in patch 125555-11 (released Monday 19th September). This patch is now in the Recommended Patchset.

HTH,
-Don



Tate, Robert B wrote:
Installing this patch puts many of our systems into endless reboots. I have used the following command line to try and exclude this patch (and some others), but it still shows up in the lists. I found a white list in the program which seems to override my commands. Is this correct? How can I get around this? I cannot allow this to be installed until this is fixed and can't get pca to not install it.

To get a listing, this is what I use:
/usr/tools/adm/SunOS/bin/pca -y -X/usr/tools/adm/SunOS/pca \
--pattern="!VRTS|VERITAS|NetBackup|VxVM|SYMC" \
--ignore=144500-19 --ignore=121430-66 --ignore=127655-07 -l

(/usr/tools is a commen NFS mounted tools area we use).



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