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Note
Patch cluster .mpm files must be pushed either concurrently with or after —
never before — the .mpm files for the patches contained in that cluster.
Use solaris2mpm on each of the packages, patches, or patch clusters you wish to manage via
the Satellite, then use RHN Push to upload them to the channel you created for them.
4.2.2. Updating Through the Website
To install packages or patches on an individual system, click the name of the system in the
Systems category, select the packages from the Upgrade or Install lists of the Packages or
Patches tab, and click Install/Upgrade Selected Packages.
To run a remote command while installing the package, click Run Remote Command rather
than Confirm. Refer to Section 5, “Remote Commands” for instructions.
To install packages or patches on multiple systems at once, select the systems and click
System Set Manager in the left navigation bar. Then, in the Packages tab, select the packages
from the Upgrade or Install lists and click Install/Upgrade Packages. To complete the action,
schedule the updates.
On Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems, the
rhnsd
daemon, which instructs the
client system to check in with RHN, automatically starts at boot time. On Solaris
systems,
rhnsd
does not start at boot time by default. It can be started from the
command line in this way:
rhnsd --foreground --interval=240
The default location for
rhnsd
is
/opt/redhat/rhn/solaris/usr/sbin/rhnsd
.
Below are the available options for
rhnsd
on Solaris:
Option Description
-f, --foreground
Run in foreground
-i, --interval=MINS
Connect to Red Hat Network every MINS minutes
-v, --verbose
Log all actions to syslog
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