Hi all, I wanted to get a few ideas of what people do to test their systems once they have applied a patch/hotfix.
Currently I pull one of the hotswap drives that has the OS mirrored on it and then let it run with the patch applied for a few days/week before letting it rebuild. In that time I will check things like event logs/performance and do some general 'listening' for any issues. Does anyone have a more scientific method? What do you keep an eye on? Also, Do you actually ever check whether the vulnerability(for example) that the patch was designed to thwart has actually been plugged? In the last two years I've only had one instance of a patch causing an OS to fail--and then just removing and then reapplying the patch seemed to work just fine. However, I don't want to get complacent. Kind Regards Murad Talukdar --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
