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Sun Connection provides the critical features for managing one to one thousand operating systems. You pick the channel and architecture that suit your unique situation.


Sun Connection 1.1 Features
 
 
Active Dependency Rules
Knowledge-based rules for Solaris, Linux and Middle-ware applications.
Application provisioning
Provisioning of applications and configuration files on Solaris and Linux.
Auditing
SOX compliant logging of all events, user activities and system changes initiated by the service.
Baseline compliance reporting
Allows users to assess the patch needs of Solaris systems against Sun-published dated patch-sets, including ability to assess compliance of one or more systems/groups against multiple baselines in a single report.
Bulk Registration
Upload and register one product or thousands of Sun products in bulk
Caching Proxy Server
Local patch source providing connection aggregation and local patch caching within the customer's security domain.
Compliance enforcement
Utilized policies and profiles to determine and implement system compliance, including ability to automate period status of compliance.
Configuration and Management
Deployment and management of system and application configuration files using the Profiling capabilities of the service.
Existing State Provisioning
Automatically provision a system to take on the state of an existing system or a predefined installation.
Firmware Updates
Knowledge, rules and facility to deploy (not install) updates for select Sun HW.
Heterogeneous patch management
Centralized patch management for Solaris, Red Hat, SUSE and zLinux mainframe environments
Hosted service
Sun hosted service for remote patch management for on multiple connected systems.
Inventory Management
Organize registered products in to groups and take advantage of flexible options for sorting inventory information and sharing it.
Job Scheduling + Management
Customer scheduling for patch deployment at prescribed dates/times or within defined maintenance windows, including one-time and recurring job scheduling.
Local Components
Custom cache of locally loaded components for use in patching and updating in-house and third-party applications.
Local Knowledge Extensions
Flexibility to incorporate customer rules and associations for use in patching locally sourced and third-party applications.
Multi-state Rollback
State of all of your systems is recorded each time an action is taken against them. Multi-state Rollback allows you to return your system to a previous state or configuration.
Notifications
Users get client-side and email notifications about new patches and Sun Alerts, helping ensure their systems are up-to-date.
Patch Finder
PatchFinder search, Patch-at-a-time downloads using "patch portal", complete with access to readme's, patch reports and Std. Patch clusters.
Patching of Virtual Environments
Aware and enabled for use in patch management of virtual environements including Solaris Containers.
Policy-based deployment
Policies enable you to add your own rules to how the updates are applied to your systems including the ability to define actions some as acceptable/automated and others as unaccessible and not allowable (ie. Kernel updates).
Reporting
System configuration and analysis reports for use in management and assessment of status.
Single-system Updating
Intuitive Update Manager application and CLI for simplified knowledge-based Solaris patch management.
System Grouping
Allows maintenance of groups rather than individual systems.
System Search
Search systems or groups by packages, patches, or systems specifications.
User Management and Permissions
Group your systems according to your needs and then assign permissions to different administrators
 
With Sun Connection you can:
  • Manage Solaris, Red Hat, and SUSE environments from a single console
  • Automate system deployment and management, from testing through production
  • Simplify complex configuration change processes
  • Proactively mitigate risk of system vulnerabilities due to missing patches, updates or upgrades
  • Learn, compile, and utilize your specific system environment dependencies
  • Proactively detect dependency conflicts, analyze incompatibilities, recommend fixes
  • Automatically schedule resolution distribution across a whole topology of servers with minimal system downtime
 
 
Lower Total Cost of Ownership
  • Deploy: Convert a server into a Web server in minutes, not hours
  • Compare inventory on 100+ systems against the baseline in minutes, not hours
  • Validate: Obtain software and patches and validate installation in hours, not days
  • Assess: Identify patches required for 100+ servers, along with impact on systems: in minutes, not hours
  • Rollback security fixes across 100+ servers in minutes, not hours
  • Patch: Apply a security fix to 100+ servers in minutes, not days
  • Recover: Restore a server with pre-disaster inventory of components in minutes, not hours
  • Productivity: Improve the ratio of machines managed per system adminstrator and free up costly personnel for higher level, more strategic tasks