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From: news 2010 on 2 Apr 2010 13:26


hello

i have heard, there should be a tool available, which collects
all informations of patches and installed products.
this can be send to sun ( now oracle ) and there i get
a report or health check of installed patches and how
up-to-date the system is.

can somebody point me to the related keywords / search strings
or product name.
i don't speak abt sun update manager.

kind rgards
hans

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From: John D Groenveld on 2 Apr 2010 13:40
In article <MPG.2620470eb96578f6989680(a)freenews.netfront.net>,
news 2010 <news.2010(a)ma.yer.at> wrote:
>i have heard, there should be a tool available, which collects
>all informations of patches and installed products.

Martin Paul's Patch Check Advanced (PCA) will show you if your
system has all recommended and security Solaris patches applied
along with other missing patches.
<URL:http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/>

It will also helpfully allow you to fetch and install those
patches, at least when Larry Ellison and company aren't breaking
patch access for customers.

Happy patching,
John
groenveld(a)acm.org
From: jay on 2 Apr 2010 13:57
On Apr 2, 12:40 pm, groen...(a)cse.psu.edu (John D Groenveld) wrote:
> In article <MPG.2620470eb96578f6989...(a)freenews.netfront.net>,
> news 2010  <news.2...(a)ma.yer.at> wrote:
>
> >i have heard, there should be a tool available, which collects
> >all informations of patches and installed products.
>
> Martin Paul's Patch Check Advanced (PCA) will show you if your
> system has all recommended and security Solaris patches applied
> along with other missing patches.
> <URL:http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/>
>
> It will also helpfully allow you to fetch and install those
> patches, at least when Larry Ellison and company aren't breaking
> patch access for customers.
>
> Happy patching,
> John
> groenv...(a)acm.org

ah, but doesn't that assume that the machine has access to
the internet? seems like i tried this and some sort of outside
access was denied. by our firewall.

plan b is to grab the "explorer". i think it has showrev -p output
in it. IIRC all the output in there is labelled as to what it is, so
you could roll your own if so inclined.

j.
From: John D Groenveld on 2 Apr 2010 14:14
In article <584775c2-4683-44d2-a72b-dd5fe664ae38(a)j21g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>,
jay <gl(a)arlut.utexas.edu> wrote:
>ah, but doesn't that assume that the machine has access to
>the internet? seems like i tried this and some sort of outside

No.
pca will work against sneakernet outputs of uname(1), pkginfo(1) and
showrev(1M). See the -f option.

You can sneakernet the patches and patchdiag.xref back to your host
and use pca to apply them from your own patch repo.

John
groenveld(a)acm.org
From: Chris Ridd on 2 Apr 2010 14:15
On 2010-04-02 18:57:39 +0100, jay said:

> On Apr 2, 12:40�pm, groen...(a)cse.psu.edu (John D Groenveld) wrote:
>> In article <MPG.2620470eb96578f6989...(a)freenews.netfront.net>,
>> news 2010 �<news.2...(a)ma.yer.at> wrote:
>>
>>> i have heard, there should be a tool available, which collects
>>> all informations of patches and installed products.
>>
>> Martin Paul's Patch Check Advanced (PCA) will show you if your
>> system has all recommended and security Solaris patches applied
>> along with other missing patches.
>> <URL:http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/>
>>
>> It will also helpfully allow you to fetch and install those
>> patches, at least when Larry Ellison and company aren't breaking
>> patch access for customers.
>>
>> Happy patching,
>> John
>> groenv...(a)acm.org
>
> ah, but doesn't that assume that the machine has access to
> the internet? seems like i tried this and some sort of outside
> access was denied. by our firewall.

You just need to provide it with a copy of patchdiag.xref.

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Chris

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