Hello Holger,
Update Manager has been extracted from the SAG Installer distribution due to the different nature and the life-cycle of the 2 deployment tools.
SAG Installer has a specific different server-side version and the “client” is backward compatible with the older server versions.
Update Manager is “forward” compatible - it is released once with certain version (8.2.1, 9.8 and 10.1) and it is constantly self updating to the latest version of that specific release bus.
Mixing both worlds created a lot of problems, as various customers were destroying their SAG Installer environments by unintentionally selecting Update Manager from the “wrong” SAG Installer server version - there is a warning message about it, but it seems to be ignored.
And to finally answer your question:
Yes, you can create on Windows machine Update Manager image for any platform (including Solaris) that you can transport to your internal network and use with the Unix Update Manager installer. You can now actually combine in one image the installation of Update Manager and the actual fixes, while in the past you had to create 2 separate images to execute this scenario - one image with the Update Manager installation (strongly advised to be installed in to another product folder), second image for the fixes. With 10.x Update Manager you don’t need to install inside separate folder and you need only one image when making the deployment.
If you have more questions, I would be happy to answer.
Regards
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