Welcome to the Sun Update Connection forum. Sun Update Connection services lets you analyze and update your systems and stay up to date from anywhere-while providing easy access to patches and software updates.The Sun Update Connection, System Edition incorporates a number of exciting features. ...

Tried to register a host with/usr/bin/updatemanagerAt the end an error window appeared saying:"Exception in web service communication"Any ideas what's goging wrong ?Thanks, Christian

Solaris 10 host. Proxy configured correctly. Login is taking an old password/user combination - don't know why.After registration I get a message that says :Error: Unable to get document : " collection\default"Unkown host (getupdates.sun.com) connecting to ...

When I upgraded from Solaris 9 to 10, Sun Update Connection did not get installed. Since there are not bundled recommended and security patch clusters for Solaris 10 on the sunsolve site as there are for Solaris 9 (at least I cannot find any), it seems that unless you want to do alot of manual ...

HelloI am trying to install the Sun Update Connection software on a relatively fresh install of Solaris 10 x86 running on a Sun AMD workstation. When running the installer I get the following error:Patch 119575-01 failed to install due to a failure produced by pkgadd.See ...

Anyone know what these are about? Invalid configuration for instance svc:/network/rpc/rusers:default, placing in maintenanceInvalid configuration for instance svc:/network/nfs/rquota:default, placing in maintenance

As some of you have already experienced, the Sun Update Connection Preview Release client code that was released through the download center had a problem. The correct version was posted on Thursday 6/2/05 at 5:00PM PST. If you are running a version that was downloaded prior to Thursday, 6/2/05 ...

Hello,I have installed the Sun Update Manager and when I start the program I get the following error:Error: Unable to download document: "collection/default"Cannot connect to retrieve collection/default: Server returned HTTP response code: 403 for URL: https://getupdates.sun.com/solarisI am a ...

I am trying to run the Update Manager on a system (my AMD64 workstation) which requires the use of a proxy to connect to the outside world on port 80. After entering the network proxy details and clicking the OK button I get an error dialogue stating "Uable to connect to Proxy." This dialogue ...

I'm getting an "Sequencer Failed" error message while trying to check for updates.There are error messages on system console as well:Jun 10 13:00:21 vcs1 root: => com.sun.patchpro.model.PatchProModel@5e9db7 <=non-descript failure during sequencing. Lexical error at line 1, column 1. ...

I used update manager to install all available paches to my solaris 10 sparc system.I used update manager to backout a few patches. I'm now expecting to have those paches listed in the "AVAILABLE UPDATE" list, which is not the case ?I even went to SUN CONNECTION and removed /readded the ...

I can use updatemanager when logged into the console but from my remote host all i see is one very long bar accross the screen. I'm using vtwm and it looks like updatemanager doesn't work with any other window manager than the native one. Does anyone know about this?Thanks, ...

How do you register Sun Update Manager from the command line. It seems like everything uses a GUI. Second, do you need to be registered to use "smpatch" from the command line? Does smpatch use the same config settings when you register Sun Update?

What incoming and outgoing ports does the Sun Update Connection use? The Sun Update is not working correctly, and I think it is due to firewall rules blocking something from being sent.Thanks.

Based on licensing I can be allowed to get the security pathes only or the complete set of patches .How can I determine for sure what I'm getting ?

The update tab of the portal page says:UpdatesFrom this page you can view all of the different types of updates available for your systems by ID, name, type, how many systems would be affected and by the date the update was released. If you want to view the current baseline, go to "Edit Your ...

When I run the Wizard it displays the following dialog box after step 3 "Storing System Information Please wait...." This will run for about an hour before the following error is displayed "Invalid User Error for System(Asset)" Have you seen this before and if so what could be causing the ...

I downloaded the sun update connection software yesterday in the hope my previous registration error "Exception in web service communication" would be fixed. This seemed to be the case for scheffczyk who posted the thread "System registration not working"Unfortunately I am still getting the ...

I'd prefer to set up a local proxy for my sun patches but it seems patchsvr is nowhere to be found? Any help would be appreciated. I'm looking for the Sparc package.Thanks,Doug

I've installed the Update Connection Proxy Server and it works great for Update Connection clients. However can it support smpatch clients also? I've tried setting the smpatch clients to point at the proxy server with -smpatch set patchpro.patch.source= http://myproxy:3816/solaris/but it ...

First two systems I used this on were fine: I entered no contract during the reg.The third I did use a valid contract, but too manage from the portal, I could not appear to pick the option to patch now, so I uninstalled and de-registered on the portal.Reinstalled with no contract or promotion ...

I upgraded tomcat on my solaris 10 system from v4 to v5 in order to support an OEM application.Since then the update connection proxy which runs on the same platform is failing.When I start update manager which is setup to use update connection proxy to get to sun , I'm getting following ...

I have following set-up ( all running sol 10 )Server A : E250 , has connection to internet. runs update connection proxy and update manager.update manager uses update connection proxy on the same server to get sun patches. This server is registered on SUN web site.Server B: V440 NO connection ...

But Synopsis is left BLANK !! as well as Release date and size , but it is "selectable" to be installed !!example patch 119876-01 .Does anyone encounter this behavior for local update manager with direct connection to sun using https://getupdates.sun.com/solaris/ ?

Hi,I am running Oracle on SunOS I2446 5.9 Generic_112233-12 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-2500I have set following sh script in crontab:#!/bin/ksh -f# Setup environment. /var/opt/env/.login## Create database template using silent mode.$ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbca -silent -createTemplateFromDB -sourceDB ...

Hello,I'm using Solaris 10 x86.In an effort to reclaim disk space, I removed all of the GNOME packages. Now, I want to use the SUN Connection Update --> http://www.sun.com/service/sunupdate/, which requires that the Update Manager be installed. According to the documentation at --> ...

Update Manager looks to be very useful but on most of my serversand my workstation I've got live upgrade configured, so I don't reallywant to be patching the current system.Can UM be configured to utilise luupgrade to apply patches to the alternate boot environment, or even allow selected ...

I don't have direct access to the internet. All of my internet fraffic has to flow through an internet proxy...Typically HTTP://<ip>:8000.I am not able to configure the Sun Update Connection application to access the Sun update Servers via our internet proxy server.. Is there support for ...

I'm a Sun developer and I'd like to use the S10 updatemanager to update my S10 office system inside SWAN with the same bits the external customers are getting. Is there a way I can do this? Note, that I do not have a service subscription #.

Hey,I started Updatemanager and get 8 patches to be installed on my system. When I click: Install 8 items now I get an exception from updatemanager:Updating the local cache complete.inside AvailablePanel.applyUpdateCollection()updateCollection: Current Available ...

Sunupdate is OK in principle except when there is an error in the patch install /remove software as there appears in 119015-03I am told to reinstate 119015-02 but of course that fails too.Back to the manual method. Has Bill Gates taken over Sun now ?

If we can't get on the network, and want to install locally downloaded patches, how do he build a local "collection"?I've got a patch in /opt/patches, (in jar format), but how to I build a local collection out of it?TIA

updatemanager says I have 10 patches to install. I click on install 10 patches, a progress bar appears but only moves a small amount then hangs. Has anyone else seen this behavior?

Seems a bit odd that we are patching a pkg that isn't installed. What's up with that? Is this a real error or ?ljcqs152# ./installUpdateConnectionAdding patch 119574-01Validating patches...Loading patches installed on the system...Done!Loading patches requested to install.Done!Checking ...

Anyone aware when SUN updatemanager will support patching sol 10 systems with multiple zones ?

Patch 120222-01 , an Emulex patch, shows up as being needed on my Sun Blade 1500 even though I do not have an Emulex card in the box. If I ask Updatemanager to install the patch, it attempts to do so, and says the patch is queued for the next shutdown. I reboot, run check for updates, and the ...

Are there any plans to add an option to proxy sever (LPS) that will allow it to basically mirror sunsolve? (either auto or manually) I mean pre-populate, so when the host asks for patches they'll already be there.This would really help customers with lots of boxes since the smpatch download ...

Solaris 10 X86 03/05 installed on Dell 2600.Downloaded software.Unzipped software.Attempted to install:# lsinstallUpdateConnection patches# ./installUpdateConnectionAdding patch 119575-01Validating patches...Loading patches installed on the system...Done!Loading patches requested to ...

I have had several failures of Update Manager not completing. After restarting, the patch list that it previous downloaded show installed even thought showrev -p does not show the patch installed. I can go to /var/sadm/spool and see the patch and after unpacking and manually installing, the ...

I was trying to patch my fourth server using update connection and on one of the patches, I got an error saying insufficient entitilement permissions (or something to that effect). On the first 3 servers, I had a total of 111 patches listed when I ran smpatch analyze. On this fourth system only ...

This morning I tried to download a list of patches returned by smpatch analyze but most of them errored out with the error patch not found. Is there a problem with the patch database server?

The diagnostic java window reveals this message: Error: unable to download document: "ReadMe/119682-02" Cannot connect to retrieve Readme/README 119682-02: Server returned HTTP response code 500 for URL: https://getupdates.sun.com/solarisI have selected a kernel patch to apply and I wanted to ...

Running "smpatch analyze" or "smpatch update" yields the following output only:Unexpected Failure: com.sun.patchpro.util.FailedStateException: StateMachine.start(): com/sun/cc/platform/clientsignature/CNSSignExceptionAny ideas?This is on a clean install of Solaris 10 ...

I just got evil patch 119108-03 pushed on me.Now, in order to get patches (currently have base Soalris 10 x64 installed with just a few patches)I seem to need to register server. However, all I getis a dialog box stating "Cannot collect required system information" and nothing else.How is one ...

smpatch analyze was working fine last week, now I get this error. Anyone have any ideas?# smpatch analyzecom.sun.patchpro.util.FailedStateException: State failed with unexpected Throwable java.lang.Exception: Sequencer failed.. Refer to the log file for more details.at ...

I finally got around the Web Service Exception by reinstalling the new install package. Now there's no exception but I can't login, it says, "Your login information does not match a valid Sun Account." I supposed the Sun Account it asks for is the same one I use to login here? and for ...

Has anyone seen this before?I just installed Sun Update Manager on a E250 running Solaris 10. I tried registering using the Wizard, but when I chose the "Apply updates manually" button, then Finish, I get the message: System registration failed; exiting applicationand the Wizard ends.Am I ...

I'm running Release 1.0 (Version 2005.05.20.10.51 of package SUNWupdatemgrr) on sparc, and I'm not able to change my password settings in the proxy authentications preferences.First I have installed the preview of the software (downloaded in June), then I've seen there is a 1.0 release and I ...

I recently ran "smpatch analyze" and "smpatch update" on a W1100z workstation running Solaris 10 (x86) [03/05].Five patches were loaded including 119103-03 which upgraded Patch Manager to Update Manager.Now, it is my understanding that without a Service Plan, I am entitled to the Security ...

When I go onto Sunsolve and look up Solaris 10 Kernel Patch, I get 118822-08 displayed. When I run updatemanager, it shows no patches are available and 118822-xx IS NOT even installed. Does anyone know how to get the Solaris 10 Kernel Patch to be installed?