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Operating Systems Solaris Patching Post 302323084 by pgarousi on Friday 5th of June 2009 10:37:19 AM
Old 06-05-2009
I can just imagine how irritating it must be to patch those servers, especially since they have not been patched for years.

Are you familiar with xVM Ops Center 2.1 by any chance? It's Sun new product which is great for patching and provisioning. It has an intelligent knowledge base and it makes the patching scalable and automated. You might want to take a look at it.
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

xenconsoled

xenconsoled(1M) 					  System Administration Commands					   xenconsoled(1M)

NAME

       xenconsoled - xVM console daemon

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/lib/xenconsoled

DESCRIPTION

       The xenconsoled daemon provides control of the system consoles of Solaris xVM domains. To actually connect to a console, use the xm console
       command. See xm(1M).

   Service Management Facility Support
       The xenconsoled service is managed  by  the  service  management facility, smf(5), under the service identifier:

	 svc:/system/xvm/console:default

       Administrative actions on this service, such as enabling, disabling, or requesting restart, can be performed  using  svcadm(1M).  The  ser-
       vice's status can be queried using the svcs(1) command.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWxvmu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       svcs(1), svcadm(1M), svccfg(1M), svcs(1), xm(1M), xend(1M), attributes(5), smf(5), xVM(5)

SunOS 5.11							    26 Sep 2007 						   xenconsoled(1M)
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