[BESAdmin-Announcements] BigFix Patch releases new content for Solaris 10 and 11

[Announcements for BES Administrators]

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.

Mirror Management for Solaris 10 
You can use the Break Solaris mirrors task (ID #37) to help split UFS file 
system root disk mirrors before patching. Then, use the Re-mirror Solaris 
disks task (ID #38) to resume disk mirroring when the patch installation 
or the upgrade is verified. The tasks are available on the Patching 
Support site. 

This feature supports SVM based mirrors only. ZFS file system or VxVM 
based mirrors are not supported.

Endpoint Upgrade List for Solaris 10 and 11
You can use the Endpoint Upgrade List analyses to retrieve a listing of 
endpoints that require an update. An analysis is available for Solaris 10 
and 11 on their respective sites: Patches for Solaris site and Patches for 
Solaris 11 site. For Solaris 11 systems, you must run the Check Available 
Package Updates - Solaris 11 task (ID #5) at least once before activating 
the analysis.

Package List Results for Solaris 10 and 11 
You can use the Installed Packages 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: 
Patches for Solaris site and Patches for Solaris 11 site.

You can also use the Image Packaging System Results 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 Patches for Solaris 11 site.

Package Installation Task for Solaris 11
You can use the Install packages by using pkg task (ID #2) that is on the 
Patches for Solaris 11 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.


Actions to Take:
Gathering of the site will automatically show the updates made. 

Published Site Version:
Patches for Solaris Site, version 1636
Patches for Solaris Site 11, version 50
Patching Support Site, version 374

Documentation:
For more information about the new features, see the Patch Management for 
Solaris User's Guide.


Application Engineering Team
IBM BigFix
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