Applying a Patch to a Solaris System With Zones Installed

You can use the patchadd system utility described in the patchadd(1M) man page to perform the following tasks:

• Apply a patch to the global zone only

• Apply a patch to the global zone and all non-global zones

• Apply a patch to specified non-global zone only

How to Apply a Patch to the Global Zone Only

You must be the global administrator in the global zone to perform this procedure.

1. Become superuser, or assume the Primary Administrator role.

   To create the role and assign the role to a user, see Using the Solaris Management Tools With RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.

2. Execute the patchadd command with the -Goption, followed by the patch ID.

   global# patchadd -G patch_id

How to Apply a Patch to the Global Zone and All Non-Global Zones

You must be the global administrator in the global zone to perform this procedure.

1. Become superuser, or assume the Primary Administrator role.

   To create the role and assign the role to a user, see Using the Solaris Management Tools With RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.

2. Execute the patchadd command followed by the patch ID.

   global# patchadd patch_id

How to Apply a Patch to a Specified Non-Global Zone Only

To apply a patch to a specified non-global zone only, the SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES package parameter for all packages in the patch set must be set to false.

You must be the zone administrator in the non-global zone to perform this procedure.

1. Log in to the non-global zone as the zone administrator.
2. While in the non-global zone, my-zone in this procedure, execute the patchadd command followed by the patch ID.

   my-zone# patchadd patch_id