Sun Update Connection – Enterprise includes the following functions and features:
Audit trail
Auto-dependency handling
Auto-discovery of installed components
CLI and API for integration with IT processes and other management tools
Graphical user interface (GUI) for centralized control of numerous remote machines
Individual deployment resolutions for each managed host
Job automation
Machine comparisons and cloning
Patch management
Script repository
Multiple host execution of pre-installation actions and post-installation actions
Simultaneous support for multiple Solaris versions and Linux distributions and hardware
Software inventory backups for rollback and disaster-recovery
Software provisioning and file installation for multiple hosts
Support for private and third-party components