Pre-staging a Sybase patch package
This topic describes how to pre-stage a Sybase patch package and its prerequisites.
Before you begin
- To pre-stage a Sybase patch package, you must have the Domain Administrator privileges.
Ensure that the GNU Tar utility is installed in one of the following locations on the Agent hosts:
- Solaris
- /usr/sfw/bin/gtar
- /opt/sfw/bin/gtar/
- usr/local/bin/tar
- /bin/tar
- Linux
- /bin/tar
- Solaris
To pre-stage a Sybase patch package
- From the Management Console main page, select Patching > Patch Repository in the Context Frame.
- On the Patch Repository page, select a patch package and select Pre-Stage from the list box for that row.
On the Sybase Dataserver Pre Deploy Patch Media page, in the Candidate list, select the databases, hosts and instances on which you pre-stage the patch media. The candidates for this patch are determined by the patch version number you entered when you created the patch package. Click Next.
In the Job Options page, specify any of the following Job options, and click Next.
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- In the Scheduling page, select when to run this job in the Job Execution field, and click Next.
New in 8.9.03If you choose to run the job now or at a future time, optionally, you can use the Set Maintenance Window option to specify the Maintenance Window Start Time and the Maintenance Window End Time during which the job should be scheduled and running. If the Change Control page displays, populate the following fields, and click Next.
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- In the Summary page, review the information.
To make changes, do the following:- Click Go to to return to the provisioning step that you want to edit.
- Make your changes.
- Click Save and Review to return to the Summary page.
- Click Execute Job or Schedule Job (depending on your selection in the Scheduling page).