What am I missing...Patch Manager/PatchPro on Solaris 9
I'm working out a new 'reference' build of Solaris 9 hosts, and reviewing how we're handling patching. I've been using PatchPro 2.2 for a while in an ad-hoc way, and want to get a little bit less ad-hoc about it. Now, I've just gotten thoroughly confused...
- pprosvc, pprosetup, and smpatch are all there on the base install, but they all complain when '/etc/patch/patch.conf' or /etc/patch/secret.conf' are missing, but I can't find any info on what needs to go into those files or how to set them up. For patch.conf, it appears to be sufficient to copy in /etc/opt/SUNWppro/etc/patchpro.conf from one of my other hosts, but I've got no clue on what to do about secret.conf.
- I've seen implications that Patch Manager 2.0 is supposed to replace PatchPro 2.2, but the download for Patch Manager 2.0 is only available for Solaris 8, not Solaris 9. What gives?
Any insights folks can provide would be much appreciated. Thanks!
[963 byte] By [
Chesther] at [2007-11-26 6:30:04]
# 1
Of course, after posting, I found out a partial answer to some of my questions...
To get Patch Manager for Solaris 9, you have to have a support contract and go to the Online Support Center's "Contract Downloads" section. It's there.
Now, here's the catch. The installer insists that you have 112945-27 installed. That exact rev. No earlier, no later. Well, Solaris 9 update 8 has 112945-36 installed as a base, so you can't back down to -27. Fun.
# 3
I tried to applied Patch Manager 2 and got this message. Any suggestion?
===========================
patchadd 112945-35
Checking installed patches...
One or more patch packages included in 112945-35 are not installed on this system.
Patchadd is terminating.
===========================
Thanks
Jimc at 2007-7-6 14:26:28 >
# 4
> Patch Manager is included in 112945-36
It may be, but I can find no evidence of the patch server included. It also doesn't seem to include the config files, nor can I find any information on how to set up the config files in /etc/patch.
I ended up finding a machine that was backlevel, and succeeded in installing the patch server on it.
As for running patchpro, I install the /opt/SUNWppro packages, because the versions of pprosvc and smpatch that are included refer to configs in /etc/patch, but seem unable to set up the configs.
# 6
Similar problems with patch manager...
Since PPro is being decommisioned and the suggestion is to go with PM 2, I went ahead and uninstalled PPro.
Now, for PM, the required patch is 112945-35 or higher, which I had on the system, excep that I have no smpatch command anywhere.. I backed out 112945-40 and reinstalled it, only to get the following:
Checking installed patches...
Executing prepatch script...
Verifying sufficient filesystem capacity (dry run method)...
Installing patch packages...
Patch number 112945-40 has been successfully installed.
See /var/sadm/patch/112945-40/log for details
Executing postpatch script...
cp: cannot access //usr/sadm/lib/wbem/providerutility.jar
cp: cannot access //usr/sadm/lib/wbem/sunwbem.jar
Unable to access "/usr/sadm/lib/wbem/providerutility.jar"
Usage:
smccompile -c <beanname>
smccompile -j tool|service [-n <altname>] <jarfile>
smccompile -j library [-n <altname>] ALL|ALLTOOL|ALLSERVICE|<tool or ser
vice bean to attach to> <jarfile>
Patch packages installed:
SUNWdclnt
SUNWlvma
SUNWmccom
SUNWwbapi
SUNWwbcor
SUNWwbmc
TIA...
