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Patch for Solaris User's Guide
BigFix Patch for Solaris provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Solaris endpoints.
Solaris Live Upgrade support
Use the Solaris Live Upgrade tool to manage system downtime and risk when installing patches on alternate boot environments on Solaris 9 and 10 computers.
BigFix client installation behavior
The version of the client that is installed on an inactive boot environment depends on the client version that is in the running boot environment.

Patch User Guides
BigFix Patch provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console.
- Patch for Windows User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Windows™ provides Fixlets for Microsoft™ security and non-security patches. Dashboards, wizards, and reports aid you in managing updates for various endpoint devices.
- Patch for AIX User's Guide
  BigFix® for Patch for AIX® provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all AIX endpoints.
- Patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Red Hat Enterprise Linux endpoints.
- Patch for CentOS Linux User's Guide
  BigFix® Patch for CentOS Linux™ provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all CentOs endpoints.
- Patch for Amazon Linux 2 User's Guide
  BigFix® Patch for Amazon Linux™ provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Amazon Linux 2 endpoints.
- Patch for SUSE Linux Enterprise User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for SUSE Linux Enterprise provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all SUSE Linux endpoints.
- Patch for Ubuntu User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Ubuntu provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Ubuntu endpoints.
- Patch for Oracle Linux User's Guide
  BigFix® Patches for Oracle Linux provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Oracle Linux endpoints.
- Patch for Solaris User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Solaris provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Solaris endpoints.
  - Overview
    BigFix Patch for Solaris provides unified, real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Solaris endpoints from a single console. It keeps your Solaris clients current with the latest Oracle updates.
  - Manage Download Plug-ins dashboard overview
    Use the Manage Download Plug-ins dashboard to oversee and manage download plug-ins in your deployment.
  - BigFix Patch for Solaris
    Use the Fixlets on the various Solaris sites to apply Oracle patches and updates to your deployment.
  - Solaris zone patching
    Patch Management for Solaris supports zone patching on Solaris 10 endpoints.
  - Solaris Live Upgrade support
    Use the Solaris Live Upgrade tool to manage system downtime and risk when installing patches on alternate boot environments on Solaris 9 and 10 computers.
    - Running the Enable Solaris Live Upgrade task
      To use Solaris Live Upgrade correctly, you must deploy the Enable Solaris Live Upgrade task on every Solaris computer.
    - Manage Solaris Boot Environments dashboard overview
      Patch Management for Solaris provides a dashboard to manage boot environments for Solaris Live Upgrade.
    - BigFix client installation behavior
      The version of the client that is installed on an inactive boot environment depends on the client version that is in the running boot environment.
    - Installing the BigFix client
      The BigFix client must be installed on all boot environments to use Solaris Live Upgrade correctly.
    - Selecting inactive boot environments for Live Upgrade
      Use the Manage Solaris Boot Environment dashboard to select the inactive boot environments that you want to patch.
    - Activating inactive boot environments
      The inactive boot environment that is selected for activation becomes the running boot environment after a restart. Use the Manage Solaris Boot Environment to identify the boot environments that you want to activate.
    - Rebooting to an alternate boot environment
      Use the Manage Solaris Boot Environments dashboard to restart the current running boot environment to the boot environment that you want.
  - Frequently asked questions
    To better understand BigFix Patch for Solaris, read the following questions and answers.
- Patch for HP-UX User's Guide
  BigFix® for Patch for HP-UX provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all HP-UX endpoints.
- Patch for Mac OS X User's Guide
  BigFix® for Patch for Mac OS X provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Mac OS X endpoints.
- Patch for Debian User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Debian provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Debian endpoints.
- Patch for VMware ESXi User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for VMware ESXi provides you unified, near real-time visibility to manage patches to all VMware ESXi endpoints from a single console.
- Patch for Raspbian User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Raspbian provides Fixlets that you use to manage the latest updates and service packs that Raspberry Pi releases. These Fixlets are available through the Patches for Raspbian sites.
- Patch for Virtual Endpoint Manager User's Guide
  BigFix® for Virtual Endpoint Manager provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches in a virtual environment.
- Supersedence for Non-Windows
  This topic describes how supersedence works in Patch.

BigFix client installation behavior

The version of the client that is installed on an inactive boot environment depends on the client version that is in the running boot environment.

The process of installing the client on an inactive boot environment depends on the state of the inactive boot environment:

Inactive boot environment without the client: The latest available minor version of the client in the active boot environment is installed in the inactive boot environment.

Inactive boot environment that has an earlier version of the client than the active boot environment: The client in the inactive boot environment is upgraded to the latest minor version of the client in the active boot environment.

Inactive boot environment that has a later version of the client than the active boot environment: The client in the inactive boot environment remains unchanged.

For example,

Server Version: 8.2.1175
Running boot environment client version: 8.1.608 
                  (Latest available version is 8.1.634)
Inactive BE_First client version: 8.0.584 
                  (Latest available version is 8.0.627)
Inactive BE_Second client version: 8.2.1078 
                  (Latest available version is 8.2.1372)
Inactive BE_Third client version: 8.1.608
Inactive BE_Fourth client not installed.

Output:
BE_First: Version is upgraded to 8.1.634
BE_Second: No changes (Version remained at 8.2.1078)
BE_Third: Version upgraded to 8.1.634
BE_Fourth: Version 8.1.634 is installed

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