Checking installed product versions and downloading maintenance releases and patches


Checking installed product versions and downloading maintenance releases and patches
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Use the installer command with the -version option to:

Determine the product RPMs that are installed on your system.
Download required maintenance releases or patches .

The version option or the showversion script in the /opt/VRTS/install directory checks the specified systems and discovers the following:

Veritas InfoScale product versions that are installed on the system
All the required RPMs and the optional RPMs installed on the system
Any required or optional RPMs (if applicable) that are not present
Installed patches
Available base releases (major or minor)
Available maintenance releases
Available patch releases

To check your systems and download maintenance releases and patches

Mount the media, or navigate to the installation directory.
Start the installer with the -version option.
```
# ./installer -version sys1 sys2
```
For each system, the installer lists all of the installed base releases, maintenance releases, and patches, followed by the lists of available downloads.
If you have Internet access, follow the prompts to download the available maintenance releases and patches to the local system.
If you do not have Internet access, you can download any needed maintenance releases and patches from the Symantec Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) Patch Finder page at:
https://sort.symantec.com/patch/finder

You can obtain installer patches automatically or manually.

See Obtaining installer patches.

Downloading maintenance releases and patches requires the installer to make outbound networking calls. You can also disable external network connection attempts.

See Disabling external network connection attempts.