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BigFix Patch provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console.
Patch for Solaris User's Guide
BigFix Patch for Solaris provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Solaris endpoints.
Solaris zone patching
Patch Management for Solaris supports zone patching on Solaris 10 endpoints.

Patch User Guides
BigFix Patch provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console.
- Patch for Windows User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Windows™ provides Fixlets for Microsoft™ security and non-security patches. Dashboards, wizards, and reports aid you in managing updates for various endpoint devices.
- Patch for AIX User's Guide
  BigFix® for Patch for AIX® provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all AIX endpoints.
- Patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Red Hat Enterprise Linux endpoints.
- Patch for CentOS Linux User's Guide
  BigFix® Patch for CentOS Linux™ provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all CentOs endpoints.
- Patch for SUSE Linux Enterprise User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for SUSE Linux Enterprise provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all SUSE Linux endpoints.
- Patch for Ubuntu User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Ubuntu provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Ubuntu endpoints.
- Patch for Oracle Linux User's Guide
  BigFix® Patches for Oracle Linux provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Oracle Linux endpoints.
- Patch for Solaris User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Solaris provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Solaris endpoints.
  - Overview
    BigFix Patch for Solaris provides unified, real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Solaris endpoints from a single console. It keeps your Solaris clients current with the latest Oracle updates.
  - Manage Download Plug-ins dashboard overview
    Use the Manage Download Plug-ins dashboard to oversee and manage download plug-ins in your deployment.
  - BigFix Patch for Solaris
    Use the Fixlets on the various Solaris sites to apply Oracle patches and updates to your deployment.
  - Solaris zone patching
    Patch Management for Solaris supports zone patching on Solaris 10 endpoints.
    - Configuring clients in global zones
      When you install the BigFix client on a computer in your network, you are, by default, installing it in the global zone. The global zone is the default zone and it always exists even when no other zones are configured. The client must be installed in the global zone first before optionally installing it in the non-global zones.
    - Configuring clients in non-global zones
      In a Solaris Zones environment, you must install the BigFix client in the global zone first before optionally installing it in the non-global zones. In general, you do not need to separately install the client in the non-global zones if it is already installed in the global zone. One exception to this is when the client binaries are not available in the non-global zones.
    - Patching global and non-global zones
      Keep the global and non-global zones secured by patching them with the Fixlets in the Patches for Solaris site.
    - Removing patches in global and non-global zones
      Use the Solaris Patch Rollback Wizard to remove a patch package and restore previously saved files in a global or non-global zone, or both. This wizard creates a Fixlet that uses the patchrm command to complete the action.
  - Solaris Live Upgrade support
    Use the Solaris Live Upgrade tool to manage system downtime and risk when installing patches on alternate boot environments on Solaris 9 and 10 computers.
  - Frequently asked questions
    To better understand BigFix Patch for Solaris, read the following questions and answers.
- Patch for HP-UX User's Guide
  BigFix® for Patch for HP-UX provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all HP-UX endpoints.
- Patch for Mac OS X User's Guide
  BigFix® for Patch for Mac OS X provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Mac OS X endpoints.
- Patch for Debian User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Debian provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. It gives you unified, near real-time visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all Debian endpoints.
- Patch for VMware ESXi User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for VMware ESXi provides you unified, near real-time visibility to manage patches to all VMware ESXi endpoints from a single console.
- Patch for Raspbian User's Guide
  BigFix Patch for Raspbian provides Fixlets that you use to manage the latest updates and service packs that Raspberry Pi releases. These Fixlets are available through the Patches for Raspbian sites.
- Virtual Endpoint Manager User's Guide

Solaris zone patching

Patch Management for Solaris supports zone patching on Solaris 10 endpoints.

Note: This guide uses the term non-global zone to refer to a local zone.

The Patches for Solaris site contains the Fixlet content that allows for global and non-global (whole root) zones patching.

The Solaris zones technology provides a way to efficiently manage and use resources by allowing you to have isolated software applications and services.

Note: This guide does not cover the steps to create and configure Solaris zones. For comprehensive information about zones, see the Oracle System Administration Guide: Oracle Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Oracle Solaris Zones at: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19044-01/sol.containers/817-1592/index.html.

Oracle uses the SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES patch package to determine the patch type. Patches with SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES=true only allow the installation to all zones, both the global and non-global zones. Oracle forces the installation on the global zone, and then changes are propagated to all non-global zones. The Fixlet content for such patches provide only one installation action.

Patches with SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES=false allow the installation to occur in either the global or non-global zone. The Fixlet content for such patches has two installation actions.

For detailed information about patching zones, see Patching global and non-global zones.