Chapter 17. Patching a Fabric
Overview
This section explains how to apply patches to a fabric. In a fabric, patches are applied to individual containers, so you can choose whether you want to apply a given patch to just some or all containers in a fabric.
Patching a fabric
To patch a fabric container (or containers) from the Management Console, perform the following steps:
- In the dropdown box below the Versions button, select the version that you are going to apply the patch to. Now click the box icon on the left of the + icon, on the Versions button:
- The Applying patch to version 1.1... page appears:Fill in the fields on this page as follows:
- Use the Add button to add one or more patch files.
- (Optional) Enter a name for the new version (to which the patch will be applied).ImportantThe version name must be a pure numeric string, such as
1.1
,1.2
,2.1
, or2.2
. You cannot incorporate alphabetic characters in the version name (such as1.0.patch
). - Enter the administrator credentials, User Name and Password.
- Click Apply.
- Apply the patched version to a container (or containers) from the Manage page.Perform the following steps:
- Select the container(s) to migrate, by clicking on the circle next to the container name.
- Use the dropdown list to select the patched version that you want to migrate to.
- Click the green arrowhead on the Versions button to complete the migration.
- If the migration is successful, you should see the changed version of the container on the Manage page. For example, in the preceding example, the root / 1.0 container would change to root / 1.2.