Obtaining The Latest Solaris Patches - Sun Microsystems SPARC Enterprise M5000 Product Notes

Obtaining the Latest Solaris Patches

The mandatory Solaris patches for the SPARC Enterprise M8000/M9000 servers
should be preinstalled on your system. See
the list of patches required on your version of the Solaris OS.
Caution – For Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000/M5000 servers running Solaris 10
11/06 OS, patches 123003-03 and 124171-06 must be installed on your system prior
to using Sun Connection Update Manager. These patches can be downloaded from
http://sunsolve.sun.com/ if needed. These patches are not required for servers
running Solaris 10 8/07 OS.
The Sun Connection Update Manager can be used to reinstall the patches if
necessary or to update the system with the latest set of mandatory patches. For more
Information about the Sun Connection Update Manager refer to the Sun Update
Connection System 1.0.8 Administration Guide:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-4687
Or visit:
http://wikis.sun.com/display/SunConnection/Update+Manager
There are two options available to register your system and use the Sun Connection
Update Manager to obtain the latest Solaris OS patches. Installation information and
README files are included in the patch download.
"Using the Update Manager GUI to Obtain Patches" on page
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"Using the smpatch CLI to Obtain Patches" on page x
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"Solaris Patch Information" on page 2 for
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