Update Manager on live upgrade systems
Update Manager looks to be very useful but on most of my servers
and my workstation I've got live upgrade configured, so I don't really
want 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 patches to be
downloaded into /var/sadm/spool for manual installation.
# 1
Not currently. The Update Manager relies directly on smpatch and Patchpro to analyze the system, download patches and install them. As a result, it's only able to deal with the active boot environment.Frederic
# 2
Frederick is correct that UM does not support download only of patches, however, the cli command smpatch does. Take a look at the man page for smpatch and specifically the download subcommand.
BTW, being able to use UM to patch live upgrade images sounds like a great future feature.
-Dave