Manage Solaris Boot Environments dashboard overview
Patch Management for Solaris provides a dashboard to manage boot environments for Solaris Live Upgrade.
You can use the Manage Solaris Boot Environments dashboard to complete
the following tasks:
- Install the BigFix client in inactive boot environments.
- Select inactive boot environments for Live Upgrade.
- Activate inactive boot environments.
- Reboot systems to boot environments that you have activated.
Before you use the dashboard, you must deploy the following task and analysis:
- Enable Solaris Live Upgrade - ID #2 in the Patches for Solaris Live Upgrade site. For more information about the task, see Running the Enable Solaris Live Upgrade task.
- Boot Environment Information - ID #5 in the Patches for Solaris Live Upgrade site. This analysis gets boot environment data from Solaris computers.
You can access the dashboard from the navigation pane by clicking
.The dashboard is divided into two tables: Solaris Computers and
Inactive Boot Environments.
The Solaris Computers table displays all Solaris computers in your
deployment, and includes the following information:
- Host name
- IP address
- Version of the installed operating system
- Name of the active boot environment
- Version of the client installed on the active boot environment
- Number of boot environments for each computer
You can select multiple Solaris computers to display all the corresponding boot environments in one consolidated view.
The dashboard shows the status of each boot environment. It shows whether the boot environment is selected for Live Upgrade or if it was selected as the running boot environment for when the system restarts.
The dashboard can also determine whether the BigFix client is installed in a boot environment. If the client is installed, the dashboard displays its corresponding version.
The dashboard has a live keyword search capability for Solaris
computers and boot environments. You can search based on the naming
convention of the computer or boot environment name.