Speaker
Christopher Hollowell
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Description
Ksplice/Oracle Uptrack is a software tool and update subscription service which allows system administrators to apply security and bug fix patches to the Linux kernel running on servers/workstations without rebooting them. The RHIC/ATLAS Computing Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) has deployed Uptrack on nearly 2000 hosts running Scientific Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The use of this software has minimized downtime, and increased our security posture. In this presentation, we provide an overview of Ksplice's rebootless kernel patch creation/insertion mechanism, and our experiences with Uptrack.
Primary author
Christopher Hollowell
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Co-authors
Mr
James Pryor
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Jason Alexander Smith
(Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
