Solaris Patch Manager gets status:302 behind Proxy

Hi Colleagues,
I am trying to get Solaris Patch Manager on my Solaris 8 up and running.
But if I say "smpatch analyze", the smpatch just reports a "Response code was 302" I think this means something like: "temporary moved".
I think my problem is, that the proxy doesn't follow the moved object.
Can anybody tell me where I can manualy download the detectors.jar and patchdb.zip?

Any news on this posting? I'm trying to do the same thing, as I dont want to use a caching proxy to download patches, I just want to use
a local source to perform analysis, downloads, and updates.
Cheers.

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I have a Solaris 9 machine on which I am trying to install Patch Manager
2. I have PatchPro 2.2 also installed on the same machine.
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Here is the full error details:
16 May 2013 11:55:47 ============== Exception (begin) ===========================
16 May 2013 11:55:47 Exception occured
java.lang.NullPointerException
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at java.util.Arrays.mergeSort(Arrays.java:1155)
at java.util.Arrays.mergeSort(Arrays.java:1155)
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at com.patchlink.sapphire.web.pages.vulnerability.Vie wVulnerabilitiesSnapshot.setFilterInfoFromSession( ViewVulnerabilitiesSnapshot.java:1389)
at com.patchlink.sapphire.web.pages.vulnerability.Vie wVulnerabilitiesSnapshot.onInit(ViewVulnerabilitie sSnapshot.java:166)
at com.novell.web.controls.WebControl.initRecursive(W ebControl.java:2085)
at com.novell.web.controls.WebControl.addControl(WebC ontrol.java:1495)
at com.novell.web.controls.WebControl.addControl(WebC ontrol.java:1415)
at com.novell.zenworks.fw.web.internal.layout.PluginT emplate.loadContent(PluginTemplate.java:288)
at com.novell.zenworks.fw.web.internal.layout.Snapsho tTemplate.loadContent(SnapshotTemplate.java:84)
at com.novell.zenworks.fw.web.internal.layout.PluginT emplate.onLoad(PluginTemplate.java:130)
at com.novell.web.controls.WebControl.loadRecursive(W ebControl.java:2423)
at com.novell.zenworks.fw.web.internal.layout.Snapsho tTemplate.loadRecursive(SnapshotTemplate.java:446)
at com.novell.web.controls.WebControl.loadRecursive(W ebControl.java:2429)
at com.novell.web.controls.WebControl.loadRecursive(W ebControl.java:2429)
at com.novell.web.controls.WebControl.loadRecursive(W ebControl.java:2429)
at com.novell.web.controls.WebControl.loadRecursive(W ebControl.java:2429)
at com.novell.web.controls.WebControl.loadRecursive(W ebControl.java:2429)
at com.novell.web.controls.WebControl.loadRecursive(W ebControl.java:2429)
at com.novell.web.controls.WebControl.loadRecursive(W ebControl.java:2429)
at com.novell.web.controls.WebControl.loadRecursive(W ebControl.java:2429)
at com.novell.web.controls.WebControl.loadRecursive(W ebControl.java:2429)
at com.novell.web.controls.WebControl.loadRecursive(W ebControl.java:2429)
at com.novell.web.controls.Page.internalProcessReques t(Page.java:712)
at com.novell.web.controls.Page.processRequest(Page.j ava:667)
at com.novell.zenworks.fw.web.internal.layout.Index.p rocessRequest(Index.java:631)
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at org.apache.jsp.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp .java:187)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(Http JspBase.java:70)
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at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.in ternalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
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at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.do Filter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
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at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invo ke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBas e.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:563)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke( StandardHostValve.java:127)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke (ErrorReportValve.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invok e(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
at com.novell.zenworks.tomcat.ZENRequestValve.invoke( ZENRequestValve.java:1293)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.servic e(CoyoteAdapter.java:298)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(H ttp11Processor.java:857)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11Conn ectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:588)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run( JIoEndpoint.java:489)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
16 May 2013 11:55:47
Exception Info:
16 May 2013 11:55:47 Class....... java.lang.NullPointerException
16 May 2013 11:55:47 Message..... null
16 May 2013 11:55:47 Logged at... Index...............637
16 May 2013 11:55:47 ============== Exception (end) =============================

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ERROR File 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Novell\ZENworks\install\downloads\tools\ZENw orksInfocollect_Linux.zip' is inconsistent!!!
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What is Sun's answer about PCA patch manager free tool ?

Hi all,
this post aims on echoing customers'feedback.
from customers'experience it seems that smpatch from patch manager tool is suffering of a lack of reliability.
One of them moved to a new freeware called PCA-Patch Check Advanced
http://www.par.univie.ac.at/solaris/pca/
From PCA Web Site we can read:
Sun has offered various tools in the past to analyze Sun/Solaris systems for patches which are installed or missing, e.g. PatchDiag, PatchCheck, PatchPro, smpatch (see the Sun Patch Portal for details). Some of them are not actively maintained, some are huge and opaque, some don't run on older Solaris releases or stripped-down machines. None of them really made me happy. Based on PatchCheck source I implemented PCA, which gets rid of the disadvantages of Sun's own tools.
I would like to know what is Sun's position and could it be possible to integrate such a tool ?
Thanks.
Malek.

- Sun is always interested in customer feedback, and is interested in
the concerns expressed here.I'd also very muck like Sun to be interested in fixing the customers problems, which has not been done in my cases. No solution or explanation has been given to my many cases opened on smpatch, and this, even though in some cases, patches were made (months later): I was never told about them. Which makes me wonder about the point of having paid support contracts in the first place.
But since UM was developed by interns, it's no wonder there's trouble maintaining it (how do I know? I've been an intern doing Java development, and I made the exact same beginner's mistakes, not knowing to handle exceptions, leaving debug output on stdout, being unable to make proper localisation).
It's obviously not the work of experienced Java programmers. Hard to trust it...
- We do understand that opaque is bad, but one of Sun's goals is to
provide complex analysis beyond matching patches with installed
packages. This analysis and its support processes will necessarily
be somewhat opaque.What analysis are you talking about? smpatch is not even able to tell me that security fixes are available for NSS, which has been part of Solaris for years. PCA does.
And what about Studio? Why can't smpatch tell me there are patches for that, too? And why aren't free patches, that are neither recommended nor security (such as the man patches) shown by smpatch when running without a contract?
- We are interested in the concerns surrounding stripped-dow
systems, and are considering a "light" version of our tools that would
support minimal systems. However at this time there are no plans to
release a light version.And what about systems without a network?
And what about not forcing me to read and agreeing to a, abusive license agreement, which can't even be printed, nor shown full screen (5 lines at a time!)?
And, please, can you explain me why I should agree to respect Reuters so-called intellectual property? What does it have to do to with keeping my systems up to date reliably and easily? Is it a competition between Sun and Microsoft to put the most ludicrous licenses on line?
Anyway, I'm sure Solaris 11 will introduce some new bloated offspring of the PatchProManagerUpdateConnection family, so I'm not holding my breath. Rather than repeat this experience again and again, I'll stick with PCA.
Laurent

HTTP error while downloading solaris patches using wget

Hello,
I am getting a HTTP error while downloading solaris patches using wget.
'Downloading unsigned patch 113096-03.
--2010-06-18 03:51:15-- http://sunsolve.sun.com/pdownload.pl?target=113096-03&method=h
Resolving sunsolve.sun.com (sunsolve.sun.com)... 192.18.108.40
Connecting to sunsolve.sun.com (sunsolve.sun.com)|192.18.108.40|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: http://sunsolve.sun.com/pdownload.do?target=113096-03&method=h [following]
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Reusing existing connection to sunsolve.sun.com:80.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 401 Unauthorized
Unknown authentication scheme.
Authorization failed.
Problem downloading 113096-03.
What am i missing here... The credentials to login to sunsolve are correct and are updated in the downloadpatch.sh script.
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SunSolve makes PatchManager and PatchPro available for free download to Solaris 8 users. Update Connection is available to Solaris 10 users. Solaris 9 users seem to be in a position to pay for a service plan to get updates.
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I'm thinking that maybe I need to switch our Sun SPARC server to OpenSolaris to get the same kind of benefits we are used to with Linux.
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Thanks!
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After being told by many people in these forums that I could get the PatchManager and patches here for free, and going thru much frustration trying, I called the school's local Sun dealer.
The Sun dealer told me that since Sun released Solaris for FREE download, Sun is requiring a support contract to get updates and patches. Basically, the support contracts pay for the "FREE" O/S.
The Sun web pages kept insisting I have a support contract, so what the Sun dealer told me concurs with what I ran into on here.
Thanks for trying to help. I do appreciate it.
John

Solaris Environment Manager maxs out memory.

We have a forte system in production, running on two Solaris 2.6 boxes. Each
has its own environment and they are connected. Our environments are called
"Data Center" and "Call Center". Our Forte memory settings are fairly
standard. We start at 20Mb and max out at 64Mb. We also have Forte keepalive
enabled, with the Forte recommended values. We are running Forte 3.0.L.3 and
using Oracle 8.0.5 for our database (as if it mattered). Each environment
has 1 or 2 NT Server boxes in it, and the clients are all NT4 using a model
node. Our Solaris machines have the patch installed that fixes the problem
that Peggy Adrian posted about earlier in the year.
Three times now in the past week, we have suddenly had the environment
manager for the data center suddenly start chewing up memory. When the data
center manager gets to about 64Mb, the data center environment manager
starts to do the same thing. Soon after, both environments die a hideous
death, and we have go in and start the node managers again.
Please note that we always export our environments to a ".edf" file and
bootstrap the environment manager (removing the environment repository)
whenever we install a new copy of the Forte applications, or whenever our
node manager dies (which seems far more frequent that I would like).
Interestingly, the environment repository hadn't grown any after the
environment manager "runs up the curtain and joins the choir invisibule".
If anyone can throw some light on this, and point us in the direction to
look to solve this problem it would be much appreciated.
Nick.

Hi,
@ Sunny: Thanks for response, the referred note was already checked and parameters are in sync as per note.
@Mohit: SAP wouldn't proceed till create database if Oracle software was not installed. thanks for the response.
@Markus: Thanks I agree with you, but I have doubt in this area. Isn't it like project.max-shm-memory was new parameter we need to set in local zone rather using shmsys:shminfo_shmmax in /etc/system. Do we need to still maintain this parameter in /etc/system in global zone.
As per SUN doc below parameter was obsolete from Solaris 10.
The following parameters are obsolete.
■ shmsys:shminfo_shmmni
■ shmsys:shminfo_shmmax
As per your suggestion, do we need to set below parameters in that case, please clarify.
Parameter                           Replaced by Resource Control      Recommended Value
semsys:seminfo_semmni   project.max-sem-ids                      100
semsys:seminfo_semmsl   process.max-sem-nsems               256
shmsys:shminfo_shmmax project.max-shm-memory             4294967295
shmsys:shminfo_shmmni   project.max-shm-ids                       100
Also   findings of /etc/release
more /etc/release
Solaris 10 10/08 s10s_u6wos_07b SPARC
Regards,
Sitarama.

Behind Proxy

Does Adobe Media Player work, or plan to work behind proxy situations? Or does it use a specific port that wouldn't be able to tunnel through the HTTP port?

adproxy.exe. Has anyone had a problem with this process which I believe is part of the Media Player. After downlosding the new version of Adobe Reader and along with it the Adobe Media Player I began experiencing long ( 8 minute ) bootup periods. On one occasion I finally got Windows Task Manager to display during the boot. There it was, adproxy,exe hogging 93 oercent of my processor time and I could not even find out what it was doing. OK, so I am a novice.
Has anyone experienced this? Any ideas? The only way I can get rid of this process until the next boot is to let WTM end the process. If I don't, it will randomly, so it seems, start up again, hogging all cpu time. Help.

Connection Problem while client is behind proxy and server out side proxy

hello
i implemented ChatApplication in JAVA, for that i used socket connection when client and server both are in same network then it's working fine.
but when my server is on internate and client is behind proxy and try to connect with server
it not able to connect i get exception.
i serch most of forum i got same answer and i try it but i was not success.
any kind of help is appriciated.
i attached my code(which i implement for testing ) pls reply me
thanks in advance.
Server.java
import java.lang.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
class Server {
   public static void main(String args[]) {
      String data = "you are successfully connected with server.";
      try {
         ServerSocket srvs = new ServerSocket(1234);
         Socket skt = srvs.accept();
         System.out.print("Server has connected!\n");
         PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(skt.getOutputStream(), true);
         System.out.print("Sending string: '" + data + "\n");
         out.print(data);
         out.close();
         skt.close();
         srvs.close();
      catch(Exception e) {
         System.out.print("Whoops! It didn't work!\n");
ProxyClient.java
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.util.*;
class ProxyClient{
   public static void main(String args[]) {
     String host="61.17.212.29";
     int port=1234;
           String line;
     Properties properties = System.getProperties();
     /*properties.put("firewallSet", "true");
     properties.put("firewallHost", "192.168.0.1");
     properties.put("firewallPort", "808");*/
     properties.put("socksProxySet","true");
     properties.put("socksProxyHost", "192.168.0.1");
     properties.put("socksProxyPort", "1080");
     System.setProperties (properties);
     try {
     /*SocketAddress addr = new InetSocketAddress("192.168.0.1", 1080);
     Proxy proxy = new Proxy(Proxy.Type.SOCKS, addr);
     Socket skt = new Socket(proxy);
     InetSocketAddress dest = new InetSocketAddress("61.17.212.29",1234);
     skt.connect(dest);*/
         System.out.println("before socket taken");
         Socket skt = new Socket(host,port);
         System.out.println("after socket taken");
         BufferedReader networkBin = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(skt.getInputStream()));
         System.out.println("Received string: '");
         line = networkBin.readLine();     // Read one line
      while(true)
             System.out.println(line);     // Output the line
             line = networkBin.readLine(); // Read the next line, if any
      catch(Exception e) {
         System.out.print("Whoops! It didn't work!\n");
     e.printStackTrace();
}

Now look here. I could not care less about this
code. I don't know anything about it, I don't
want to know, I have already recommended you don't
use it, and I have also given you a simpler and
better solution. If you don't want to take my advice
that is your privilege and your problem.ya i has understand system propertis i have setted and u can see it in the code i have tried by both system properties and also J2SE 5.0 proxy class but i got a same problem malformed Exception server refuse to connection.
is there any problem at sever side?
can u tell me in which way u r teling to set the propery i m looking forward for ur reply.
ya i m sure u will give me.................reply "ejp".
Thnx in advance.

Adobe Reader and Acrobat Pro updates for 11.0.10 being pushed out through SolarWinds Patch Manager are not being recognized as applicable.

I am trying to update our Adobe Reader and Acrobat Pro to 11.0.10 using the default MSP packages with SolarWinds Patch Manager. All of the systems keep reporting as 'NOT APPLICABLE'. All of the workstations have Reader11.0.09, with about 10% still on 11.0.08 (due to the fact that the reader 11.0.09 package only patched about 2/3 of the systems). All systems that have Acrobat Pro are 11.0.09.
In SolarWinds I am using the "Adobe Systems, Inc. Packages" node.
Adobe Systems Acrobat 11 Catalog
Adobe Systems Reader 11 Catalog
and the SW Patch Manager downloads the msp's straight from Adobe.
I have checked the msp's manually and they will update at least back to 11.0.07 in Reader, and 11.0.0 in Acrobat Pro. (I had an old stand alone system that still had Reader 11.0.07, and I did a new install of Pro and went straight to update 11.0.10)
The SolarWinds Tech said, "Okay. That content is produced by Adobe. Any questions concerning applicability logic or diagnosing why a package reports as NotApplicable when that's not expected would need to be directed to Adobe, as they are solely responsible for that content and its behavior".
I am new to SolarWinds Patch Manager, and any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

It sounds like you are attempting to use the SCUP catalogs outside of the MS solution. I can almost guarantee you that Adobe didn't test it if it's not referenced in the ETK: 11 SCCM-SCUP — Enterprise Administration Guide
That being said there "should" be logging available in any deployment solution. Since I am not familiar with Solar-Winds particular solution I can't say if it logs errors and how verbose those logs might be. If you have logs then post the output and the forum members "might" be able to assist you.

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