{"id":810,"date":"2008-01-18T22:02:28","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T02:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/2008\/01\/18\/quick-script-to-see-missing-patches-on-solaris\/"},"modified":"2008-01-18T23:09:35","modified_gmt":"2008-01-19T03:09:35","slug":"quick-script-to-see-missing-patches-on-solaris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sungeek.net\/unixwiz\/2008\/01\/18\/quick-script-to-see-missing-patches-on-solaris\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Script to see missing patches on Solaris"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I needed to see what patches were missing on a ton of machines. Instead of trying to start the Patch manager of the month for solaris, I wrote this little script that would produce me a HTML page of the current patches installed and ones that needed to be installed. This script is based off of the patchdiag.xref<\/a> available from Sun. I know there are many other tools out there such as PCA (Patch check advanced)<\/a> but in the environment I was in today, I could not use any third party programs so I wrote my own. The output looks like this:<\/p>\n

\"output<\/p>\n

What the script does is the following:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Get a list of current patches on the machine<\/li>\n
  2. Find the latest version of each patch that is installed on the machine and compare it to the latest version available according to the patchdiag.xref<\/li>\n
  3. Generate one line of HTML code, listing the patch, the current installed revision and the current available revision and a description of the patch. It will also place a link to the patch on sunsolve.<\/li>\n
  4. At the end it will list a summary of patches installed, missing, obsolete, and how many security and recommended patches there are.<\/li>\n
  5. It will then compare the list of currently available patches against what is installed to see if there are patches that are available but not installed on the system<\/li>\n
  6. If a patch has never been installed it will then list the line of HTML code showing the patch number, revision, flag (security,recommended) and its description<\/li>\n
  7. At the end it will display the total number of patches that are not installed and how many are recommended and\/or security<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Basically it is a very simple script. It should work on all versions of solaris from 7+. It ONLY looks at Solaris specific patches and not those that are unbundled (i.e. Sun Studio, Web Server, etc.)<\/p>\n

    Here is the script, it may not be the cleanest or most efficient, but it was a quick job…<\/p>\n

    Shell script to analyze solaris patches<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Today I needed to see what patches were missing on a ton of machines. Instead of trying to start the Patch manager of the month for solaris, I wrote this little script that would produce me a HTML page of the current patches installed and ones that needed to be installed. This script is based … <\/p>\n

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