Installing and removing patches for Messaging Gateway

Products

• Messaging Gateway

Issue/Introduction

You need to use the "patch" command to update the Messaging Gateway to resolve an issue. You would like more information on the "patch" command.

Resolution

Here are a list of tasks the patch command can help do, and what commands are used to perform those tasks.

Note: The patch command is a command line utility, you must first login to command line console (locally or through SSH) with the default admin account.

• To list patches available for this SMG version:
  • Run command "patch list"
    
    
• To examine the release note for a patch:
  • Run command "patch -p <SMG_VERSION> notes"
  • (Where <SMG_VERSION> is replaced with the version and patch version of SMG i.e. 10.6.3-267)
    
    
• To download patch:
  • Run command "patch -p <SMG_VERSION> download"
    
    
• To execute pre-update checks:
  • Run command "patch -p <SMG_VERSION> check"
    
    
• To install patch: (NOTE: If the patch has not been previously downloaded, the patch will be downloaded as well)
  • Run command "patch -p <SMG_VERSION> install"
    
    
• To verify patch application result:
  • Run command "show --version"
  • (NOTE: At this time there is no way to determine patch version from the Control Center web interface)
    
    
• To remove patches:
  • Run command "patch remove"
  • (NOTE: The patch remove command will remove ALL patches. There is no method to remove patches individually)
    
    
• To get further help on the patch command:
  • Run command: "patch help"