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Registering Your System With Sun Update Manager |
This chapter describes how to register your system with Sun Update Manager and to perform other tasks from the registration wizard.
You can use Update Manager to manage security updates for your Solaris 10 system by registering your system with Sun Update Manager. Registration is free and it involves sending only your basic system specifications to Sun. The registration process is initiated when you access the Update Manager GUI for the first time.
For more information about the different levels of registration, see Sun Update Manager Registration.
The following table identifies the tasks that you might perform when you use the Sun Update Manager registration wizard.
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If your system obtains updates and update data from the Sun update server, or you want to manage your system remotely by using the Sun Update Connection services, you must register your system with Update Manager. |
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If you want access to other than security updates, or you want to manage your system remotely by using the Sun Update Connection services, you must register your system with a Sun subscription key. This subscription key is available to software support customers. |
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(Optional) After registration, specify the network proxy to use. |
If your system is connected to the Internet through a network proxy, you must specify the network proxy that is used to access the Sun update server. |
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(Optional) After registration, specify a local source of updates for your system. |
You might want your system to obtain updates from a local source, such as a Sun Update Connection Proxy or a collection of updates on a local system. You must specify a local source of updates if your system is not connected to the Internet. |
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For more information about the different levels of registration, see Sun Update Manager Registration.
1. Start the Sun Update Manager application.
This icon is a blue circle with a question mark. This icon indicates that the system has not been registered.
This method does not work immediately after you install the software. You must log out of the GNOME desktop and log back in.
From the Applications menu, choose Utilities. Then, from the Utilities menu, choose Update Manager.
The Authentication Required dialog box appears.
2. Log in to the Update Manager GUI.
If you want to exit the Update Manager application during this step, click Cancel.
a. Specify the user name of a privileged user and click OK.
The Authentication Required dialog box appears.
b. Specify the password for the privileged user you specified and click OK.
The Sun Update Manager Registration Wizard appears.
3. From the Welcome screen, specify how you want to use Update Manager to manage updates on your system.
Update Manager can automatically manage updates on your system or enable you to manually manage updates on your system.
The Sun Online Account screen appears.
Click Finish to exit the registration wizard.
Now you are ready to manually manage updates on your system. For information about using the smpatch add command and the smpatch remove command to manage updates, see the smpatch(1M) man page.
4. (Optional) If your system does not connect to the Internet, specify a local source of updates.
To specify this local source for updates by using the Update Manager application, see How to Specify a Source of Updates (GUI).
a. Click Configure the System to Retrieve Updates From a Local Source.
The Use a Local Source for Updates screen appears.
b. Click Retrieve Updates From a Local Source (Sun Update Connection Proxy).
c. In the Patch Source URL field, type the URL to the local update source.
The Sun Update Connection Proxy URL has this form:
http://server-name:3816/solaris/
d. Click Finish to set these update source values, and to return to the Sun Online Account screen.
Click Cancel to discard the registration information about the update source values that you set. Then, click Discard Registration to return to the Sun Online Account screen.
5. (Optional) Specify the network proxy your system uses to connect to the Internet.
To specify this network proxy information by using the Update Manager application, see How to Specify a Network Proxy (GUI).
If your system is directly connected to the Internet, you do not need to specify network proxy information.
a. Click Configure Network Proxy Settings.
The Network Proxy Settings screen appears.
b. Click Enable Network Proxy.
c. Type the host name for the proxy in the Proxy Host Name field.
d. Type the port number for the proxy in the Proxy Port field.
e. (Optional) If a user name and password are needed for proxy authentication, click Use Proxy Authentication, then do the following:
i. Type the proxy user name in the Proxy User Name field.
ii. Type the proxy user password in the Proxy Password field.
f. Click OK to set these network proxy values, and to dismiss the dialog box.
Click Cancel to discard the network proxy values you set, and to dismiss the dialog box.
6. Specify your Sun Online Account.
The Terms of Use and Software License screen appears.
After you have your Sun Online Account information, restart the registration process.
7. (Optional) Click Create a Sun Online Account.
The Create Sun Online Account screen includes the Sun privacy policy and text fields in which to supply the information required to obtain a Sun Online Account.
a. Review the Sun Privacy Policy.
b. Complete the account information on the registration form and click Next.
If you supplied an invalid entry, you are prompted to correct the error.
The second Create Sun Online Account screen appears.
c. Complete the second registration form and click Next.
You must supply your company name, your country or territory, and the language you want to use for communications with Sun. The other values on this form are optional.
The Terms of Use and Software License screen appears.
8. (Optional) Decide whether you want access to all updates or only security updates.
Your Sun subscription key might be your support contract number. If you do not have a subscription key, sign up for one of these software support plans:
You can specify a subscription key at any time to gain access to all Solaris updates. See How to Specify Your Subscription Key (GUI).
9. Review the terms of use and the software license.
You cannot use the Sun Update Manager software unless you agree to the terms of use and the software license.
10. Decide whether to manage updates on your systems remotely or locally.
Even if you choose to manage updates remotely, you can still use Sun Update Manager to manage updates locally on your system.
You can click What Gets Sent to see what information about your system is sent to Sun.
For information about using the Sun Update Connection services to remotely manage updates on your systems, see the Sun Update Connection 1.0 Administration Guide.
You can click What Gets Sent to see what information about your system is sent to Sun.
11. Click Finish to complete the registration of your system, at which time information about your system is sent to Sun.
Click Cancel to discard the registration information that you supplied, and to dismiss the registration wizard.
The Registration Confirmation screen, from which you can access the Sun Update Connection web application, appears.
12. Click Close to dismiss the registration wizard.
The Checking dialog box shows the progress of the update analysis of your system.
The list of updates that you can install on your system appears in the Available Updates screen of the Sun Update Manager application.
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To gain access to all Solaris updates, you must have a Sun subscription key. Without a subscription key, you can only view security updates. You also need a subscription key to use the Sun Update Connection services.
A subscription is one of the features of the Software Support Service plan, the Solaris 10 Service Plan, or a SunSpectrum Support service agreement.
If you do not have a Sun subscription key, sign up for one of these software support plans:
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