Customizing the Policy for Applying Updates

Update Manager applies these types of updates to your system:

• Standard updates that are applied immediately and require no system restart

• Updates that require a system restart

• Updates that must be manually applied

Standard updates are associated with the standard update property. Updates marked as Restart Required are associated with the rebootafter, reconfigafter, rebootimmediate, reconfigimmediate, and singleuser update properties. Updates marked as Download Only are associated with the interactive update property. Download Only updates are only downloaded to your system and must be applied manually according to the instructions in the update’s README file.

If you use the smpatch update command to update your system, however, you can customize the policy for applying updates.

For more information about this policy, see the smpatch(1M) man page.