PatchPro Analysis Engine

Update Manager incorporates PatchPro functionality. PatchPro performs update analyses on systems, then downloads and applies the resulting updates. This automation functionality was previously available for Solaris 2.6, Solaris 7, Solaris 8, and Solaris 9 as a separate PatchPro product, and in the Sun Patch Manager 2.0 product. PatchPro functionality is now part of the Update Manager software.

PatchPro uses signed updates, which improves the security of Solaris updates by ensuring that they have not been modified.

The pprosetup and pprosvc commands are included with Update Manager for transition purposes. It is best not to use these commands and to use the smpatch command instead.