Retrieving installed package information
You can retrieve a list of all installed packages on Solaris 10 and 11 endpoints by activating analyses on the BigFix console.
About this task
- Installed Packages - Solaris 10
- This analysis retrieves information about packages that are installed
with the
pkgadd
command on Solaris 10. It provides a list of the package names and version numbers. The packages that are installed by using other commands are not included in the list. - Installed Packages - Solaris 11
- This analysis retrieves information about packages that are installed
with the
pkg install
command on Solaris 11 endpoints. It provides a list of the package names and version numbers. The packages that are installed by using other commands are not included in the list. - Image Packaging System Results
- This analysis uses the
pkg list
command to retrieve the list of installed Image Packaging System (IPS) packages before and after the last deployment of the Install packages by using pkg task. This analysis is only for Solaris 11 or later endpoints.
You can use the information from the analysis as a baseline to verify whether the patch installation was successful.
Viewing the installed packages from the console helps reduce the need for a system administrator to log on to the actual endpoints.
Procedure
- From the Patch Management domain, .
- Click the appropriate analysis.
- Click Activate.