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Install manual patches—patchadd

SA uses the patchadd utility to install Solaris patches. However, some patches, such as firmware updates, cannot be installed with patchadd. These manual patches have special installation instructions in their Readme files and must be installed manually on your Solaris servers.

While you can import these patches into the SA software repository and install them manually on servers, if you attempt to remediate a manual patch, the job will result in a Warning status. The patch status display Will Not Install and the output will indicate that the patch requires a special installation procedure and must be installed manually.

SA cannot determine if these manual patches have been installed. A compliance scan on a patch policy that contains a manual patch will report that the policy is non-compliant. In this case, you should install the patch manually and remove the patch from the policy.