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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.
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.
Download plug-ins
Download plug-ins are executable programs that download a specified patch from the website of the patch vendor. To ease the process of caching, Fixlets have an incorporated protocol that uses download plug-ins.

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.
    - What's new in this update release
      This release of BigFix® for Patch for Solaris contains an enhancement to an existing solution for retrieving the endpoint upgrade list.
    - Supported platforms and updates
      BigFix Patch supports several Solaris platforms and Oracle updates.
    - Site subscription
      Sites are collections of Fixlet messages that are created internally by you, by HCL, or by vendors.
    - Download plug-ins
      Download plug-ins are executable programs that download a specified patch from the website of the patch vendor. To ease the process of caching, Fixlets have an incorporated protocol that uses download plug-ins.
    - Solaris download cacher tool overview
      The Solaris download cacher tool is an executable program that automatically downloads and caches patch packages on the Windows BigFix server to facilitate the deployment of Solaris Fixlets.
    - Solaris Image Packaging System Repository Management dashboard overview
      BigFix® provides the Solaris Image Packaging System Repository Management dashboard to help you manage your Solaris 11 endpoints and locally stored repositories.
  - 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.
  - 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.

Download plug-ins

Download plug-ins are executable programs that download a specified patch from the website of the patch vendor. To ease the process of caching, Fixlets have an incorporated protocol that uses download plug-ins.

For the Fixlet to recognize the protocol, the related download plug-in must be registered. You must use the Manage Download Plug-ins dashboard to register the download plug-in. After you register the plug-in, you can run the Fixlets to download, cache, and deploy patches from the BigFix console.

If you already registered the plug-in, you can use the Manage Download Plug-ins dashboard to run the update. You must use the dashboard also to unregister and configure the download plug-in.

Notes:

If you install the download plug-in on relays, it is suggested that you also install it on the server.
Download plug-ins support basic authentication only.
The BigFix server and the BigFix client must be on the same version to avoid a null error.

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