Overview

The Patch Audit, Inventory, and Reporting (PAIR) feature is a utility which resides on the PMAC server. Once configured, the PAIR utility collects and reports the server patch status of target servers scoped for inclusion by the user. This centrally-available information allows customers, customer support, or consulting services to easily see what patches have been applied in order to debug and correct problems.

The PAIR utility is for reporting patch activities and is not a patching tool. For platform, the TPD Patching feature is the mechanism by which platform servers get patched and is available from the PMAC. This document is targeted for the platform administrator and support personnel. The application user should always defer to the application-specific patch instructions based on each release.

Access to the PAIR utility is using CLI on the PMAC server. There are no special initialization procedures required to start using the utility.

IPv4, IPv6, and Name Services

The PAIR utility supports configuration using IPv4, IPv6, and FQDN.

Note:

IPv6 addresses do not require the prefix. Addresses including the zone index are invalid (for example, ending with %eth0).

As is typical with Linux commands and utilities, additional information can be found in the manual and help pages, that is, executing man pair or pair --help from the CLI prompt.