Re: Why i??? NEED YOUR INPUT

[Lukas Beeler <lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 21:10,  <Tommy.Holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> simple question...how many M$ security "fixes" require a reboot?

Almost all of them. It's very unusual for Windows fixes NOT to require
a reboot.

> requiring an IPL once every 2-3 months vs. once a week reboot for a M$
> patch...i'll take the every 2-3 months for $1000 Alex...

Your numbers are wrong. MS publishes security patches once per month
(Patch Tuesday). Sometimes they skip a month, but that'd be 12 reboots
per year. My core infrastructure servers all have 11 or 12 reboots in
2009, according to OpsMgr.

An according to my docs, our production IBM i's all have between 9 and
18 Patch/Fix IPLs in 2009.

(I'll admit that "18" outlier was caused by a broken RAID enabler,
which lead to a system crash and the application of a preliminary PTF
that didn't fix the issue, and then a few more IPLs to get everything
sorted out)

(We also a daily, planned IPL. It's mostly a thing of the past, but i
don't want to bash heads with our developers over this)