Particularly, smpatch and patchsvr won't work if the system is not registered.
Make sure to have a properly configured Internet connection and DNS resolution.
There are many hard to pinpoint possibilities that may cause a registration attempt to fail.
For the latest details check My Oracle Support website and consider the following hints:
- Make sure to have at least, patches:
(with something such as $ showrev -p | grep 99999 | cut -c 1-17)
SPARC: 121118-19, 123005-09, 124171-08, 123630-04, 123893-25
X86: 121119-19, 123006-09, 124187-08, 123631-04, 123896-25
- Install required patches, beginning by the Common Agent Container:
# cacaoadm stop
# patchadd 123896-XX
# cacaoadm start
# patchadd 121119-XX
# patchadd 123006-XX
...
- Make sure registration database is clean:
# cacaoadm stop
# rm /var/scn/persistence/SCN*
# /usr/lib/cc-ccr/bin/eraseCCRRepository
# cacaoadm start
- Edit registration profile, setting MOS credentials and proxy information only:
# REG_FILE=RegistrationProfile.properties
# cp /usr/lib/breg/data/$REG_FILE /tmp
# vi /tmp/$REG_FILE
- Perform the registration:
# sconadm proxy -r /tmp/$REG_FILE
# sconadm register -a -r /tmp/$REG_FILE
- Adjust the patch source (and proxy, if needed):
# smpatch set patchpro.patch.source=https://updates.oracle.com/
# smpatch set patchpro.proxy.host=proxy-1
# smpatch set patchpro.proxy.port=8080
# smaptch set patchpro.proxy.user
# smpatch set patchpro.proxy.passwd
- For testing, attempt an update operation.
IMPORTANT
As for Solaris 10 Update 11 (aka 1/13) sconadm has been removed.
To register such new systems a cool hack has been recently indisclosed.
Perhaps (I haven't tested) it may help register other boxes too (U9 and U10).
s10-u10# cd /var/cc-ccr
s10-u10# tar cvf /tmp/cc-ccr.tar .
s10-u10# scp /tmp/cc-ccr.tar s10-u11:/tmp
s10-u10# rm -r /tmp/cc-ccr.tar
s10-u11# cd /var/cc-ccr
s10-u11# tar /tmp/cc-ccr.tar
s10-u11# rm -r /tmp/cc-ccr.tar
Note: Unfortunately patchsvr may not work either due to latest U10 Tomcat updates.
