Patches not being seen when trying to do ESXUpdate scan

[entsol]

Dear all,

This my first time using ESXUPDATE as my colleague normally does the patching but is away at present. I am trying to use ESXUPATE to run patches ESX350-200905401-BG through to ESX350-200905405-BG. I have downloaded these patches , unzipped them and copied them into the patching depot. My colleague documents that once copied over I should copy over the contents.xml and contents.xml.sig to the root of the depot. But these files are different from the current contents.xml and contents.xml.sig files.

The current contents.xml has multi entries like below

<folder bundleID="ESX350-200904409-BG" name="ESX350-200904409-BG" />

I attempted to update this file with the new patches and run the ESXUPATE SCAN but it fails with a compatibility error.

Am I doing this right or not . Can someone give me some guidance Please ?

[AndreTheGiant]

Some patches could require other patches (but I'm not sure that is your case).

Why you didn't use VUM? (you have only standalone ESX?)

Andre

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[AndreTheGiant]

Thread that could be useful:

Andre

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[MauroBonder]

after apply all patches, check the patches installed at esx host

esxupdate query (command line)

[PingMonster]

What I usually do is...update one by one using "esxupdate -n update" so that I know what I'm putting in.

And reboot the host at the end.

[entsol]

All - Thank you for your replies. Being new at this I dont if Iam doing this correctly or not. We have setup an NFS share available to all the ESX servers. This share has all the patches in the following file stucture :-

ESX350-200808201-UG

ESX350-200808202-UG

ESX350-200808218-UG

ESX350-200808217-UG

ESX350-200808203-UG

ESX350-200808401-BG

ESX350-200808402-BG

ESX350-200808408-BG

ESX350-200808205-UG

ESX350-200808413-SG

ESX350-200808405-SG

ESX350-200808406-SG

ESX350-200809404-SG

ESX350-200808407-BG

ESX350-200808409-SG

ESX350-200808411-BG

ESX350-200808412-BG

ESX350-200810201-UG

ESX350-200810202-UG

ESX350-200810203-UG

ESX350-200810204-UG

ESX350-200810205-UG

ESX350-200810206-UG

ESX350-200810207-UG

ESX350-200810208-UG

ESX350-200810209-UG

ESX350-200810210-UG

ESX350-200810212-UG

ESX350-200810214-UG

ESX350-200810215-UG

ESX350-Update03

ESX350-200811401-SG

ESX350-200811402-SG

ESX350-200811405-SG

ESX350-200811406-SG

ESX350-200811408-BG

ESX350-200811409-BG

ESX350-200901401-SG

ESX350-200901402-SG

ESX350-200901404-BG

ESX350-200901405-BG

ESX350-200901406-BG

ESX350-200901407-BG

ESX350-200901408-BG

ESX350-200901410-SG

ESX350-200802303-SG

ESX350-200802305-SG

ESX350-200802408-SG

ESX350-200803212-UG

ESX350-200803213-UG

ESX350-200803214-UG

ESX350-200804405-BG

ESX350-200805504-SG

ESX350-200805505-SG

ESX350-200805506-SG

ESX350-200905405-BG

ESX350-200805507-SG

ESX350-200808206-UG

ESX350-200903201-UG

ESX350-200903202-UG

ESX350-200903203-UG

ESX350-200903204-UG

ESX350-200903206-UG

ESX350-200903209-UG

ESX350-200903210-UG

ESX350-200903211-UG

ESX350-200903212-UG

ESX350-200903213-UG

ESX350-200903215-UG

ESX350-200903216-UG

ESX350-200903217-UG

ESX350-200903218-UG

ESX350-200903219-UG

ESX350-200903220-UG

ESX350-200903221-UG

ESX350-200903223-UG

ESX350-200903224-UG

ESX350-200903225-UG

ESX350-200903226-UG

ESX350-200903227-UG

ESX350-200903228-UG

ESX350-200903229-UG

ESX350-200903230-UG

ESX350-200903232-UG

ESX350-Update04

ESX350-200904201-SG

ESX350-200904409-BG

ESX350-200904408-SG

ESX350-200904407-SG

ESX350-200904406-SG

ESX350-200904405-BG

ESX350-200904404-BG

ESX350-200904403-BG

ESX350-200904402-SG

ESX350-200904401-BG

ESX350-200905401-BG

ESX350-200905402-BG

ESX350-200905403-BG

ESX350-200905404-BG

contents.xml.sig

Copy of contents.xml

Copy of contents.xml

contents1.xml.sig

contents1.xml

contents.xml

When I run ESXUPDATE SCAN the following patches do not show up in the scan

ESX350-200905401-BG

ESX350-200905402-BG

ESX350-200905403-BG

ESX350-200905404-BG

And hence I cannot run the updates for these fixes

Thanks

Paul

[drewmartin]

see below

[drewmartin]

Click here to Download contents.zip file from the VmWare Support site to the FTP root Depot. This will overwrite the current xml files with the updated patches. Then rescan and you'll find that you can now see the updated patches listed. Also look into Update Manager for patching in the future.

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