If you have ever administrated machines under the Sun's system you may have noticed that updates where a big part of your work.
In the past information about them were available on SunSolve, the Sun support website, to help sysadmins to sort everything out. SunSolve has now been decomissioned by Oracle and its replacement hasn't received a warm welcome from the Solaris community considering technologies used (Flash,...).
We Sun Solve! was created to avoid this problem: it complies with the old Sun principle and Unix mentality in general: KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid!).
Entirely based on Free technologies, its workflow is simple: as soon as a patch is out, it's downloaded right away to extract metadata it contains inside a database which can be queried online.
In addition to patches informations it provides the ability for sysadmins to search for patches and bugs with some advanced search features. For example you can search the patches database to know which patches have modified /usr/bin/cp recently; or which bugs have affected ZFS. Note also that the website is regularly checking for new patches: it announces them on IRC, RSS as well as Twitter.
Moreover the goal is also to provide tools for syadmins like patches report, patches level comparison, etc...
For the community side We Sun Solve! has also been in touch with Openindiana and Illumos developers to help them find the information they need for their daily developments.
Its future objective is to complete the sysadmin toolkit and information with whatever could be useful for a Solaris sysadmin. This website belong first to its users! We're then eager to hear any suggestion or comment about it!
As of today We Sun Solve! is:
To summarise, if you have Solaris servers under your control this website can certainly help you in your daily job.
At the end, We Sun Solve! needs your feedback. You can contact its author either via the website, IRC or Twitter.