Ensure that you have completed the preparation tasks before analyzing your system. For more information, see Downloading and Installing the Patch Management Tools (Task Map).
Become superuser.
Analyze the system.
# smpatch analyze Assessing required patches for machine "venus/172.20.27.26" . Please wait... 110453-04 SunOS 5.8: admintool Patch 109318-33 SunOS 5.8: suninstall Patch 112396-02 SunOS 5.8: /usr/bin/fgrep patch ... |
Now, you can download and apply these patches to your system. See How to Download and Apply a Signed Patch to a Solaris System. Notice that the smpatch download command also performs the analysis step before downloading the patches to your system.