This section describes issues that you might encounter while using Sun Update Connection – Enterprise software. For issues introduced in a specific release, see Release-Specific Issues.
Agent Installation Script Can Fail on All Versions of Solaris (#6482852)
Missing Agents for RH AS_2.1 and ES_2.1 in Sun Update Connection - Enterprise (#6456194)
"Internal Query Failed" Message When Running Job on New Installation (#6470383)
SDS Appears to Download Content That is Already Cached (#6456161)
The bare metal installation server (BMI) module is not available.
If you are interested in creating and using a BMI server with Sun Update Connection - Enterprise, please contact your Sun Sales representative.
Agent installation fails on Solaris with:
./Install: not found
The agent installation script requires the 'bash' shell which is not a standard shell on Solaris.
Install the SUNWbash package from your Solaris installation media.
The bash shell is also required to be able to run the agent.
Sun Update Connection - Enterprise does not provide agents for RH AS_2.1 and ES_2.1.
New agents are not available at this time.
On a fresh installation of Sun Update Connection - Enterprise, if the first job created uses any policy other than "Ask Me", the user will get an error when running the job: "internal query failed". This problem will also occur when running BMI, which uses pre-defined policy.
Create and run a job which uses a policy of "Ask Me". Subsequent jobs will then run without displaying the above error, regardless of the policy they use.
Sometimes the System Dependency Server appears as if it is downloading content that is already cached and available to the agent.
This is a reporting error in the user interface. Content that is available in the cache is not downloaded again.
When scheduling a recurring job, you must select the specific day or days when you specify the Day of Week or Day of Month.
When you plan to download Solaris components, such as patches, ensure that the following utilities are installed on the SDS machine:
/bin/tar
/usr/bin/unzip
/usr/bin/zipinfo
/usr/bin/file
/usr/bin/uncompress
/usr/bin/md5sum
If any of these utilities are missing, the download of Solaris patches might fail, although the error logs do not always indicate that a missing utility was the cause.
S390 channels and VM cloning are not yet supported in Sun Update Connection – Enterprise or BMI.