To Perform a Solaris Baseline Compliance Analysis

This procedure describes how to perform a Solaris baseline compliance analysis. The result of this analysis is a list of the number of patches to be installed to bring it in to compliance with the baseline, the white list, and the black list you specify.

Before You Begin

You must have a Solaris baseline white list and an optional black list to perform this task. For more information about creating these lists, see the following:

• To Create a Solaris Baseline White List

• To Create a Solaris Baseline Black List

The terms update and patch are the same.

1. Open the New Job window by choosing New from the Jobs menu.

2. Select Simulate to run the job in simulation mode.

3. Open the Task Editor window by clicking the Add (New) Task button.

   1. Choose your white list from the Profiles drop-down menu.

   2. (Optional) Choose your black list from the Policy drop-down menu.

   3. Open the Select Hosts window by clicking the Host Select button.

   4. Select the host or group, click the Add button (right-facing arrow) to add it to the list, and then click OK.

   5. Click OK to save the task.

4. Repeat Step 3 for each baseline compliance analysis task you want to run as part of this job.

5. (Optional) Click the Options tab to specify the task execution parameters.

   If you plan to have more than one task in this job to run analyses against more than one baseline, you can select Parallel to run the tasks simultaneously. By default, tasks are run sequentially.

6. Click OK to submit the job.

7. (Optional) View the progress of the job running on the host by choosing Host Progress from the Host list.

8. View the job summary when the job completes.

   For more information, see To View a Summary of a Baseline Installation Job.