Lookup past installed patches

[khughes]

Just wondering if there was a way to look up which patches were installed on a ESX host. Basically we had a host failure yesterday and had to rebuild the box and our documentation of installing which patches lets just say was non-exhistant

Any file that shows whats been installed by chance?

- Kyle

[RParker · Accepted solution]

esxupdate -l query

[khughes]

Thanks, I actually had all the patches downloaded still on my PC but wanted to make sure that it was all of them. Quick question, what does this mean:

Wrong or duplicate package versions:

VMware-esx-vmx-3.0.2-62488 (should be 3.0.2-61618)

VMware-esx-apps-3.0.2-62488 (should be 3.0.2-52542)

VMware-esx-vmkernel-3.0.2-62488 (should be 3.0.2-61618)

- Kyle

[esiebert7625]

Here's a good patching doc that answers that question in the FAQ at the end...

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx3_esxupdate.pdf

Eric Siebert

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