Patch Management Tools

The PatchPro patch management technology is now available as Patch Manager 2.0 for Solaris 9 OS and as Sun Update Connection 1.0 for Solaris 10 OS.

• Solaris 9 - Sun Patch Manager 2.0 is available for free download from SunSolve at http://wwws.sun.com/software/download/products/40c8c2ad.html. Documentation for Sun Patch Manager is available at http://ttp://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/1152.1.

• Solaris 10 - Sun Update Connection is available as patch ID 121118-05 (SPARC) or 121119-05 (x86) or as a download from SunSolve. See http://www.sun.com/service/sunupdate/gettingstarted.html for details. Documentation for Sun Update Connection is available at http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/1320.2.

  Additional information about all patch management options for the Solaris 10 OS is available at http://www.sun.com/service/sunupdate/. Additional information for using the Sun patch management tools is provided in the Solaris Administration Guide: Basic Administration at http://docs.sun.com. Refer to the version of this manual that is published for the Solaris OS release that you have installed.

If some patches must be applied when the node is in noncluster mode, you can apply them in a rolling fashion, one node at a time, unless a patch's instructions require that you shut down the entire cluster. Follow procedures in How to Apply a Rebooting Patch (Node) in Sun Cluster System Administration Guide for Solaris OS to prepare the node and boot it into noncluster mode. For ease of installation, consider applying all patches at once to a node that you place in noncluster mode.