Sun Update Connection Hosted Web Application

The Sun Update Connection Hosted web application enables you to remotely monitor and manage all update activities for each of your registered systems. This web application is hosted at Sun.

Systems that you manage with the Sun Update Connection Hosted web application can still be managed locally by using Update Manager. The update data that appears in these tools might be out of sync due to latency.

The Sun Update Connection Hosted web application is hosted on a Sun web site. You can use this tool to create jobs to run on systems as they check in to the service. A job either installs an update or uninstalls an update. You can also use the Hosted web application to view the update status of your systems and of your jobs.

The Sun Update Connection Hosted web application has these features:

• Automatic check-in of registered systems. Each registered system checks in, or connects, to the Sun Update Connection System web site to run queued jobs, which install and uninstall updates. You can specify the check-in interval for each system.

• Job creation. Create a job to download and install an update to one or more systems.

• Job monitoring. View the progress of all update jobs.

• Job management. Cancel pending jobs, archive completed jobs, and schedule system restarts to install updates that require a reboot.

For more information about the Sun Update Connection Hosted web application, see Chapter 5, Managing Solaris Updates by Using the Sun Update Connection Hosted Browser Interface.