Sun Connection 1.1 Release Notes

Preface

The Sun Connection 1.1 Release Notes provides information to system administrators about addressing known issues with version 1.1 and 1.1.1 of the SunSM Connection software, formerly known as Sun Update Connection – Enterprise.

To get more information about Sun Connection, go to the Sun Connection site on BigAdmin at http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hubs/connection/.

Revision History

June 20, 2007

Added CR 6571151 to the list of Sun Connection Application Issues.

June 11, 2007

Added CR 6565602 to Agent Issues and CR 6568370 to Installation Issues.

June, 2007

Sun Connection 1.1.1 released in June, 2007 with the following changes:

April 26, 2007

Chapter 1. Updated Required Solaris Patches for the Managed Agent to include patches 122660 and 122661.

March 29, 2007

Chapter 1. Added a new section, Platforms With Limited Support.

March 20, 2007

Chapter 1, Required Solaris Patches for the Managed Agent, changed the required Solaris 10 OS SPARC patch from 123630 to 124630.

March 8, 2007

General Availability.

How This Book Is Organized

This book includes these chapters.

Chapter 1, Major Changes in Sun Connection describes major changes in this release.

Chapter 2, Known Issues and Workarounds describes known issues and their workarounds.

Chapter 3, Issues Fixed and New Functionality describes the bugs which were addressed in this release and highlights new features found in the release.

Chapter 4, System Command Dependencies lists dependencies for Solaris and Linux system commands.

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 

#