Using Solaris Patch Management Tools

Patch Manager Base 1.0.1 and PatchPro 2.2 are tools that manage signed patches on Solaris systems. Patch Manager Base 1.0.1 runs on Solaris 2.6, Solaris 7, and Solaris 8 systems. PatchPro 2.2 runs on Solaris 9 systems. These tools also run on both SPARC^TM and x86 hardware.

By using the patch management tools, you can do the following:

• Analyze a Solaris system to determine the recommended patches.

  If your system includes hardware products from Sun Network Storage, the patch management tools can recommend firmware patches associated with that hardware. You might need to identify that hardware manually. See How to Identify the Hardware on Your System.

• Download the recommended patches from Sun to a local system.

• Apply the recommended patches to a local system.

• Remove patches from a local system.