Using Ksplice Uptrack
Command-line interface
- uptrack-upgrade
- Bring your system up to date by installing the latest available updates.
- uptrack-remove id
- Removes the update with ID id. If invoked with --all, removes all installed updates.
- uptrack-install id
- Installs the update with ID id.
- uptrack-show
- Show a list of the updates that are currently installed.
Enabling automatic updates
The Uptrack client will run periodically (via cron) to check for
new updates. In the file /etc/uptrack/uptrack.conf, you can
configure Uptrack to automatically install new updates, or just notify
you when they are available. To receive new updates from Ksplice
Uptrack as soon as they are available, change the
autoinstall line to read:
autoinstall = yes
Web status interface
For our customers and free trial users, a web interface is available that allows you to monitor the status of all of your machines, from one central location. Please log in to use it.
Graphical interface
Note: This feature is currently only available for Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10.
If you'd like to see it for your distribution, please contact us.
After Ksplice Uptrack is installed, a panel icon will notify you when new kernel updates are available:
You can click on the icon to view the available updates:
Click the “Install all updates” button to start the update process. A progress bar shows you the updates as they are being installed:
Ksplice does all the heavy lifting to update the running code at the core of your system in seconds, while your applications keep running—and rebooting is not required. When the process is complete, the update list will look as follows:
The panel icon will also return to normal:
Your kernel is now up to date and secure!