<font size=2 face="sans-serif">IBM is pleased to announce that Patch Management
for Solaris is releasing several features to help you keep your endpoints
secure and up-to-date.</font>
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<li><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Mirror Management for Solaris 10 <br>
You can use the <b>Break Solaris mirrors</b> task (ID #37) to help split
UFS file system root disk mirrors before patching. Then, use the <b>Re-mirror
Solaris disks </b>task (ID #38) to resume disk mirroring when the patch
installation or the upgrade is verified. The tasks are available on the
<i>Patching Support</i> site. <br>
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This feature supports SVM based mirrors only. ZFS file system or VxVM based
mirrors are not supported.</font>
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<li><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Endpoint Upgrade List for Solaris 10
and 11<br>
You can use the <b>Endpoint Upgrade List</b> analyses to retrieve a listing
of endpoints that require an update. An analysis is available for Solaris
10 and 11 on their respective sites: <i>Patches for Solaris</i> site and
<i>Patches for Solaris</i> <i>11</i> site. For Solaris 11 systems, you
must run the <b>Check Available Package Updates - Solaris 11</b> task (ID
#5) at least once before activating the analysis.<br>
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<li><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Package List Results for Solaris 10
and 11 <br>
You can use the <b>Installed Packages </b>analyses to retrieve a
listing of all currently installed packages. You can use this information
to verify the level of the current installed patches against the latest
installation. An analysis is available for Solaris 10 and 11 on their respective
sites: <i>Patches for Solaris</i> site and <i>Patches for Solaris</i> <i>11</i>
site.<br>
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You can also use the <b>Image Packaging System Results</b> analysis to
retrieve the list of installed Image Packaging System (IPS) packages before
and after the last deployment of the installation task provided by BigFix.
This analysis is only for Solaris 11 or later endpoints and is available
in the <i>Patches for Solaris</i> <i>11</i> site.</font>
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<li><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Package Installation Task for Solaris
11<br>
You can use the <b>Install packages by using pkg</b> task (ID #2) that
is on the <i>Patches for Solaris 11</i> site to install one or multiple
packages on the endpoints. You can use this task also when you plan to
upgrade the entire distribution to the latest SRU.</font></ul>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>Actions to Take:</b></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Gathering of the site will automatically
show the updates made. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>Published Site Version:</b></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Patches for Solaris Site, version 1636</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Patches for Solaris Site 11, version
50</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Patching Support Site, version 374</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>Documentation:</b></font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">For more information about the new features,
see the </font><a href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/form/anonymous/api/wiki/90553c0b-42eb-4df0-9556-d3c2e0ac4c52/page/a242023f-ff02-43d9-be00-5c4fb10b2b0c/attachment/bd886f38-ff11-4904-920b-1a18b1536af6/media/BigFix_Patch_Solaris_UG.pdf"><font size=2 color=blue face="sans-serif">Patch
Management for Solaris User's Guide</font></a><font size=2 face="sans-serif">.</font>
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<br><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif"><i>Application Engineering
Team</i></font>
<br><font size=2 color=#2f2f2f face="sans-serif"><i>IBM BigFix</i></font>