Installing and removing patches for Messaging Gateway
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Installing and removing patches for Messaging Gateway

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Article ID: 169748

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Messaging Gateway

Issue/Introduction

You need to use the "patch" command to update the Messaging Gateway to resolve an issue. You would like more information on the "patch" command.

Resolution

Here are a list of tasks the patch command can help do, and what commands are used to perform those tasks.

Note: The patch command is a command line utility, you must first login to command line console (locally or through SSH) with the default admin account.

  • To list patches available for this SMG version:
    • Run command "patch list"

  • To examine the release note for a patch:
    • Run command "patch -p <SMG_VERSION> notes"
    • (Where <SMG_VERSION> is replaced with the version and patch version of SMG i.e. 10.6.3-267)

  • To download patch:
    • Run command "patch -p <SMG_VERSION> download"

  • To execute pre-update checks:
    • Run command "patch -p <SMG_VERSION> check"

  • To install patch: (NOTE: If the patch has not been previously downloaded, the patch will be downloaded as well)
    • Run command "patch -p <SMG_VERSION> install"

  • To verify patch application result:
    • Run command "show --version"
    • (NOTE: At this time there is no way to determine patch version from the Control Center web interface)

  • To remove patches:
    • Run command "patch remove"
    • (NOTE: The patch remove command will remove ALL patches. There is no method to remove patches individually)

  • To get further help on the patch command:
    • Run command: "patch help"