[olug] Best Practices Recommendation

[Eric Lusk]

Of course, then you are actually dealing with a
security update or other known issue, rather than
updating drivers "just because they're new".
--- Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:
> Things to consider:
> 
> - some of the firmware updates for our dell server
> had to do with
> fixing a situation along the lines of something as
> serious as the raid
> array could not be rebuilt without an update.
> 
> - Many of these servers have built in remote access
> to the bios that
> have had security patches released.
> 
> On Apr 2, 2005 10:40 AM, Andrew Embury
> <drazak at ingenii.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > My group maintains about 50 and growing x86
> servers (Tier 1 - Dell and HP)
> > running Windows and Linux (mostly Windows)
> throughout the city.  We have a
> > number of servers internally, but most of them
> belong to external clients.
> > My question is, do those of you in similar
> circumstances proactively
> > update items such as BIOS Firmware, RAID
> controller firmware, and driver
> > updates (NIC, RAID, etc)?
> > 
> > I've generally done these updates proactively
> internally, but am torn if
> > its worth it to apply such updates for external
> clients, most of whom
> > their servers and associated systems are running
> just fine and run
> > the risk of creating a problem or downtime that
> did not exist before.
> > 
> > Just to be clear, were not talking software and
> security updates...we
> > already quickly apply these.
> > 
> > I do have deployment tools to ease this should we
> decide to go ahead with
> > this.  I'm leaning towards no, and only applying
> these kind of updates if
> > they address a specific problem, but wanted to get
> other opinions and
> > experiences.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Andrew
> > _______________________________________________
> > OLUG mailing list
> > OLUG at olug.org
> > http://lists.olug.org/mailman/listinfo/olug
> >
> _______________________________________________
> OLUG mailing list
> OLUG at olug.org
> http://lists.olug.org/mailman/listinfo/olug
> 

http://www.ericshaus.com
Alcohol and Calculus don't mix.  Never drink and derive.


		
__________________________________ 
Yahoo! Messenger 
Show us what our next emoticon should look like. Join the fun. 
http://www.advision.webevents.yahoo.com/emoticontest