Sun Patch Manager 2.0 Administration Guide for the Solaris 9 Operating System

ProcedureHow to Change the Patch Set (Web Browser)

You can choose to analyze your system based on different sets of Sun patches, such as the Recommended Patch Cluster. By default, you use the patch set All Available Patches.

As of June 2005, the only patch sets available from Sun are All Available Patches and Recommended Patch Cluster.

  1. Access the Patch Manager browser interface.

    See How to Access the Sun Patch Manager Browser Interface (Web Browser).

  2. Click the Administration tab to access the Patch Management Configuration page.

  3. Go to the Patch Set section under Patch Source.

  4. Select the patch set to use.

    • To base your analysis on all patches, select All Available Patches.

    • To base your analysis on recommended patches, select Recommended Patch Cluster.

    • To base your analysis on another patch set, select Other and type the name of the patch set in the field.

  5. Click Save.


Example 6–3 Changing the Patch Set

This example shows how to specify a Sun-defined patch set other than All Available Patches or Recommended Patch Cluster.

In this example, you specify a fictitious patch set called patchset1.

Shows the Patch Set section of the Patch Manager Administration
page.