How to Analyze Your System to Identify the Recommended Patches

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).

1. Become superuser.

2. 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.