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 Patch Management > All Patch Management > Dashboards > Manage Solaris Boot Environments.

The dashboard is divided into two tables: Solaris Computers and Inactive Boot Environments.
Figure 1. Manage Solaris Boot Environments dashboard

Manage Solaris Boot Environments dashboard
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.
Figure 2. Search for computer or boot environment name

Search for computer or boot environment name