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Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administration Essential Guide
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Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administration Essential Guide

by Daniele Tosatto
June 2012
Beginner to intermediate
364 pages
7h 2m
English
Packt Publishing
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Applying a hotfix or update using the command line

In the following example, we will discover how to apply a hotfix using the xe CLI to the XenServer host xenserver2:

  1. First, download and extract the update file to a known location on your computer.
  2. If High Availability is enabled on the pool, disable it by executing the xe command pool-ha-disable.
  3. Copy the update file to a folder on the XenServer host, using a tool such as WinSCP. In this example we copy the file to the path /home/.

    Note

    You can download the WinSCP tool available at http://winscp.net.

  4. Upload the hotfix file to the host you wish to update using the xe command patch upload:
    xe patch-upload file-name=<file-name> -s <server> -u <username> -pw <password>
    

    where:

    • The file-name parameter is ...
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