A recent Sun Docs BigAdmin paper by Shanthi Srinivasan and Laura Hartman describes Patching the Solaris OS Using Sun Ops Center 2.5. The paper explains that Sun Ops Center offers comprehensive data center management software for the physical and virtual systems in the data center. This software enables users to provision, patch, virtualize, manage, and monitor the assets in your data center from a single browser user interface (BUI).

The authors explain that patch management can be a complex and time-consuming process. Sun Ops Center is designed to help manage the complexity, standardize the installation process, minimize downtime, and help you to keep your systems current. With the remote management capabilities, users can access a consolidated view of the assets in the data center from a single user interface. This article provides an overview of the OS update profiles and policies, system catalogs, compliance reports, and the methods that you can use to manage and update your Solaris software with Ops Center

Among the tasks that Sun Ops Center can help with include:

- Identifying patch levels and patch status, and determining the patches and packages that are needed to update your systems

• Determining withdrawn patches and updating to the most current patch

• Understanding the patch dependencies before you start a patch job

• Applying patch policy consistently throughout your data center

• Updating a group of operating systems at the same time

• Patching virtual systems

• Testing the stability of the patches in your environment

• Scheduling a day and time that will cause the least amount of downtime

The paper's contents are as follows:

• Sun Ops Center and Patching
• Sun Ops Center Architecture
• Understanding Profiles, Policies, and Catalogs
• Methods of Patching the Solaris OS
• Alternate Boot Environment
• Creating a Customized Update Job
• System Catalogs
• Reports: Baseline Analysis Reports; Solaris Baselines; Black Lists and White Lists; Types of Baseline Analysis Report; Creating a Baseline Analysis Report
• Updating Solaris Zones
• Summary
• For More Information

The authors conclude with the assurance that Sun Ops Center helps users to determine whether systems are up-to-date and choose the right patches to be applied. Sun Ops Center provides a centralized, intelligent patching solution for distributed data centers. It automates the patching of the Solaris OS, which can increase the availability and utilization of systems and minimize downtime. These capabilities lead to better management of the data center.

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