Preface

The Sun Update Connection – Enterprise 1.0 User's Guide provides information to system administrators about how to use the Sun^SM Update Connection – Enterprise software to manage software updates to systems that run the Solaris^TM Operating System or Linux distributions.

Before You Read This Book

To effectively use this book, you should be familiar with the following:

• Your client and host operating systems

• Basic Linux and Solaris commands

• Common X Windows actions

  You should understand Solaris dependency issues and Linux dependency issues, and know how to use applications in X Windows. If you manage Solaris hosts, you should be familiar with basic Solaris commands. In general, you should be familiar with the hardware systems and network of your organization.

How This Book Is Organized

This book includes 15 chapters.

Chapter 1, Introduction to the Sun Update Connection – Enterprise Product describes the Sun Update Connection – Enterprise concepts.

Chapter 2, Getting Started gives a tour of the main window and basic usage of the GUI.

Chapter 3, User Accounts describes how to manage user accounts.

Chapter 4, Hosts and Groups describes how to manage groups and how to view host properties.

Chapter 5, Local Inventory describes how to upload and manage private software and files.

Chapter 7, System Management Profiles describes how to set up and execute complete machine tests.

Chapter 8, Inventories describes how to set up and execute jobs to manage installed components.

Chapter 9, Profiles describes how to create machine definition profiles.

Chapter 10, Policies describes how to create job policies to control and automate solutions.

Chapter 11, Complex Jobs describes how to set up and execute jobs to manage hosts with multiple profiles, policies, schedules, and options.

Chapter 12, Common Job Operations describes Solaris settings, jobs for multiple distributions, searching for components, confirming actions, troubleshooting jobs, and various other job-related functions.

Chapter 13, Reports describes how to set up incident queries and history queries, and how to manage the result reports.

Chapter 14, Command-Line Interface describes the Sun Update Connection – Enterprise command-line interface (CLI).

Chapter 15, Sun Update Connection – Enterprise Scenarios includes advanced information for environment management.

Chapter 16, Customizing Preferences describes how to view and change background parameters.

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Note –

Whenever possible, tasks include procedures for both the GUI and the CLI. You must be the admin user or a user with full permissions to use the CLI.

The CLI commands can be issued to the command line or can be included in shell scripts. The command syntax is shown, and when relevant, an example script is provided.

The CLI examples show how to authenticate the commands by providing the user name and the password on the command line. If you do not specify the user name and password, you will be prompted for the information. When you create a shell script with Sun Update Connection – Enterprise commands, specify the user name and password on each command line to avoid typing this authentication information each time the script runs a command. You can use variables to specify the user name and password.

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Related Books

In addition to this book, find more information in the following publications.

• Sun Update Connection – Enterprise 1.0 Administration Guide

  This book includes procedures for installation, customization, backup and restore, support of Shared Resources, and advanced configurations. This book also includes explanations of solutions for Linux and Solaris technology, servers in the solution, and security.

• Online Help

  This help is accessed in the GUI by pressing F1 and describes the user interface as well as other GUI explanations.

• Release Notes

  This book includes new features, platform support, problems and issues.

What's New in This Sun Update Connection – Enterprise Release

Sun Update Connection – Enterprise included support for the Solaris Operating System, which makes Sun Update Connection – Enterprise the migration choice for enterprises that are looking for a more cost-effective solution.

This software include the following new features:

• Remote restart, both automated and on-demand

• Expansive incident reports for Solaris patch management

• Profile attachment to hosts and groups for compliance checks

• Complex jobs that use one or more profile deployments and system-wide scans

• Email notifications of host status and job status

• Improved and easy access to the graphical user interface (GUI)

Documentation, Support, and Training

The Sun web site provides information about the following additional resources:

• Documentation

• Support

• Training

Sun will provide a technical faq in a read only format at http://forum.sun.com/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=334. The URL is subject to change and may be removed at Sun's discretion.

Typographic Conventions

The following table describes the typographic conventions that are used in this book.

Table P–1 Typographic Conventions

Typeface	Meaning	Example
AaBbCc123	The names of commands, files, and directories, and onscreen computer output	Edit your .login file. Use ls -a to list all files. machine_name% you have mail.
AaBbCc123	What you type, contrasted with onscreen computer output	machine_name% su Password:
aabbcc123	Placeholder: replace with a real name or value	The command to remove a file is rm filename.
AaBbCc123	Book titles, new terms, and terms to be emphasized	Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide. A cache is a copy that is stored locally. Do not save the file. Note: Some emphasized items appear bold online.

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

The following table shows the default UNIX® system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.

Table P–2 Shell Prompts

Shell	Prompt
C shell	machine_name%
C shell for superuser	machine_name#
Bourne shell and Korn shell	$
Bourne shell and Korn shell for superuser	#