Patching 8, 9 & 10 without internet connection

Hi
I'm looking to automate and manage Solaris patching for a large number of Solaris systems. The OS on these systems range from 8, 9 and 10.
The systems sit within a secure domain and have absolutely no connection to the internet ... there is a physical air gap between the network and the internet.
What I would like to do, is build a central patch manager server that I can populate manually ( via DVD for example) patches. Clients would then interrogate this system for patches, install those appropriate, and reboot (if required) at a predefinied time.
Is this possible with the latest supported tools?
If it is, can I just populate my my patch server with patch clusters off Sunsolve, or do they have to be delivered in some other form.
This could be the difference between my high level management staying with SUN or moving to HP entirely.
Many thanks
Andy

Hi Andy,
A draft solution is as follows:
Have one server working as NFS server. This is will be your patch server.
All other servers will be NFS client.
On NFS server:
- share via NFS a directory, let's say /export/patch.
- periodically (you decide the frequency), load Solaris 8, 9 & 10 recommended patch clusters on /export/patch.
- write a script, let's say script1, that contains all the intelligence to patch a server. Store script1 in /export/patch.
On NFS client:
- create a script that does the following:
. mount /export/patch from NFS server in /mnt
. run /mnt/script1
. umount /mnt
. reboot the server (if you are applying recommended patch cluster it is guaranteed that you will need to reboot the servers).
- make the script a cronjob to run every saturday (or any other frequency you like)
Another solution, the one I have in my company is
- All servers are behind corporate firewall.
- one server has sunUC proxy server installed. This is the only server allowed to connect to Internet.
- all other servers have sunUC client installed.
The patching on all servers is done the way I described above, except the servers get their patches via the sunUC proxy server. No need to load manually Solaris patch clusters.
Hope this helps.

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