Patch or upgrade the SMC Appliance on the command line
You can use the appliance maintenance and bug remediation (AMBR) patching utility to patch or upgrade the SMC Appliance on the command line.
Before you begin
If you do not have physical access to the SMC Appliance, use SSH to access the SMC Appliance remotely.
You must have SMC Appliance Superuser permissions to log on to the SMC Appliance command line. Administrators with unrestricted permissions (superusers) are allowed to log on to the SMC Appliance command line only if there are no administrators with Console Superuser permissions.
Use sudo if you need elevated privileges. For a list of available sudo commands, enter the following command:
sudo -l
Steps
Result
The SMC Appliance patch is installed on the SMC Appliance.
If you installed an SMC Appliance upgrade patch, the installation process restarts the appliance and installs the patch. When the upgrade is finished, the appliance restarts again.