Solaris/smpatch-messages

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        Messages Of The Day

        Message 1 of 3
        Date: 2008/02/29
        Title: Attention all Sun Connection Hosted users
        Description: Users of Sun Update Manager, smpatch, and Sun Connection Enterprise (UCE) are not affected
by this EOL announcement, but should continue to read on to determine if their systems are
enabled for hosted management.

Sun Connection Hosted Customers:  On March 1, 2008, https://sunconnection.sun.com/ will
reach End of Service Life.  You will still be able to receive updates via Sun Update Manager,
smpatch and UCE.  We suggest that you check your systems to ensure the Sun Connection Hosted
transport mechanism is disabled.

To see if your system has been enabled for hosted management, check the value of your system
by using the following command:
     /usr/lib/cc-ccr/bin/ccr -g cns.service.swupPortalMgmt.status
This command will return a value of "disabled", "enabled", or "". If the value is "disabled"
or "", thank you for checking, no further action is required.  If "enabled", please take
action by performing one of the following steps:

You can disable the transport mechanism from Update Manager to Sun Connection hosted by
applying the  patch 121081-08 (sparc)  or 121082-08 (x86) which will be available on Feb.
29, 2008.   If you want more control, you can also disconnect your system from Sun
Connection Hosted and shutdown the associated daemons on your system(s) via either one of
these two options.

1) From the Hosted Management Portal
[Note: This option will not be available once Sun Connection Hosted has been shutdown.]
 a) Go to https://updates.sun.com/ and login to the Hosted management site with your Sun
    Online Account.
 b) Select the Systems tab
 c) For each system listed, click the Edit System Settings icon (second icon to the right
    of the system name)
 d) Scroll to the bottom of the Edit Your System Settings page and click the Delete System
    button
 e) When asked for confirmation click Continue

This option will unregister your systems from the Portal and send a job down to your system
telling it to disable the portal management functionality.

2) Disable Hosted Management functionality from the client
 a) From a terminal window on the target client system,  su to root
 b) Execute the following command to shutdown the local Hosted daemons:
# /usr/lib/cc-cfw/framework/lib/cc-client-adm stop
 c) Execute the following command to prevent the daemons from being restarted at system boot
# /usr/lib/cc-cfw/framework/lib/cc-client-adm disable

Once complete, either option will disassociate your client system with Sun Connection Hosted.

        Message 2 of 3
        Date: 2009/01/13
        Title: Attention all Sun Connection users
        Description: The following patches for Sun Update Connection clients will soon be necessary to
                     validate patch downloads.

Solaris 10 (Sparc) 121118-15
Solaris 10 (x86) 121119-15

Solaris 9 (Sparc) 140476-01
Solaris 9 (x86) 140477-01

Solaris 8 (Sparc) 140475-01

These patches deliver an updated public certificate into the smpatch keystore which will be required to
validate patches signed after the expiry of the current patch signing certificate. Run
smpatch update

to ensure you are running with the latest versions of all required patches.  After applying the patch, the default
patchset name will become current2. The current2 patchset contains all the patches available today, and will also
deliver the newly signed patches once they become available.

Sun Update Connection Proxy (Local Patch Server) users:

A patch will be available shortly to make use of the new certificates.  If you wish, you may alter the 
patchSigningCertAlias property in the file /var/patchsvr/lps/WEB-INF/applicationContext-lps.xml to
 

patchsigning:patchsigning2:patchsigning3

After installing the above patch on your system to make use of this new certificate.  A restart of patchsvr 
will be required to pick up the changes.

        Message 3 of 3
        Date: 2009/02/03
        Title: Important notice to obtain new patches
        Description: Perform the following 3 steps in the given order:

1) Apply the latest smpatch certificate patches
        S10: SPARC 121118-15; x86 121119-15
        S9:  SPARC 140476-01; x86 140477-01
        S8:  SPARC 140475-01

2) Update Manager: select the "Current Available Updates, after 01/2009" Update collection
   smpatch users:  run the following command
        smpatch set patchpro.patchset=current2

3) If you are using a Local Patch Server, make sure the patchsigning3 alias is added to
the server configuration file. Alter the patchSigningCertAlias property in the file
/var/patchsvr/lps/WEB-INF/applicationContext-lps.xml file to

patchsigning:patchsigning2:patchsigning3

Then restart the patchsvr with
patchsvr stop  
patchsvr start 

More information about these changes is available at

http://forums.sun.com/ann.jspa?annID=75