Welcome to the Sun Update Connection forum.
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. These features* include access to all Solaris 10 software updates (security fixes, device drivers, recommended updates and feature updates) through the following update mechanisms:
?Sun[sm] Update Manager ?A client-side application with a graphical user interface (GUI) and command-line interface (CLI) for locally managing updates on your system
?Sun[sm] Update Connection- Sun-hosted Web application for remotely managing updates on one or more of your systems
?Update Connection Proxy- A local caching proxy server which serves updates from Sun to the client systems that are inside your enterprise security domain. (requires use of Sun Update Manager.)
?SunSolve Patch & Updates Portal - A venue for downloading patches and obtaining patch readme's
For more information about these tools, please see the following documentation:
- Sun Update Manager 1.0 Administration Guide
- Sun Update Connection 1.0 Administration Guide
- smpatch(1M) man page
- patchsvr(1M) man page
- Sun Update Connection, System Edition 1.0 Preview
Release: Installation Guide and Release Notes
* Please note that in the future, some features will require a valid Sun Service Plan. Please see the "Get Started" Page for more information.
http://www.sun.com/updateconnection/getstarted
You can also access a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document from the Sun Update Connection services web application by clicking Help or directly at
http://www.sun.com/service/sunupdate/faq.html
And of course, you can post questions here on the Sun Update Connection forum and we will do our best to respond.
Happy updating,
Sun Update Connection Offering Team
