What's new in this update release

The Endpoint Upgrade List- Solaris 10 analysis is enhanced to retrieve Solaris 10 endpoints that require an operating system update by checking for the updates against the recent published Solaris OS release and the kernel patch update.

This analysis available from the Patches for Solaris site.

BigFix provides a task to help split root disk mirrors before patching and another task to resume disk mirroring when patch installation and the upgrade are verified.

The tasks are available on the Patching Support site.

The Fixlets for Oracle Recommended Patch Clusters and Oracle Critical Patch Updates (CPUs) allow you to directly install patches from the NFS without copying them to the local system.

This feature is applicable to the patch clusters and CPUs that are on the Patches for Solaris site.

You can select the NFS that you want to use and run basic NFS configuration from the available tasks that are on the Patching Support site.

BigFix provides content to retrieve a listing of Solaris 10 and 11 endpoints that require an update.

The analysis that retrieves the endpoint upgrade list for Solaris 10 systems is available from the Patches for Solaris site. The corresponding task and analysis for Solaris 11 systems are on the Patches for Solaris 11 site.

BigFix provides analyses to gather a listing of all currently installed packages on Solaris 10 and 11 endpoints. You can use the information to verify the level of the current installed patches against the latest installation. These analysis are available on the Patches for Solaris site and Patches for Solaris 11 site.

The Solaris 11/11 and Solaris 11.1 patch updates are released through the Solaris Support Repository Update (SRU). These updates contain several fixes and are available from the Oracle Support Repository.

Solaris Image Packaging System Repository Management dashboard for assigning local repositories to Solaris 11 endpoints.

Regularly updating the endpoints in your deployment is crucial to the success of your organization. Network restrictions often prevent you from getting the latest set of changes from the Oracle hosted repositories. Maintain your own local package repositories to try to limit this restriction. By using local repositories, you can control which updates the endpoints have access to.

You can have multiple local repositories in your environment. For example, you might have one local repository that is used to mirror the latest SRU changes from Oracle and another repository that contains only one particular SRU.