Managing the IPS history and freezing and uninstalling packages

Auditing is another current concern for companies, and most times, it's very helpful to know which package operations have happened recently. Furthermore, we're going to learn a way to drop the IPS command history.

How to do it…

To gather this information, we execute the following command:

root@solaris11:~# pkg history START OPERATION CLIENT OUTCOME 2012-09-19T16:48:22 set-property transfer module Succeeded 2012-09-19T16:48:22 add-publisher transfer module Succeeded 2012-09-19T16:48:22 refresh-publishers transfer module Succeeded 2012-09-19T16:48:22 image-create transfer module Succeeded 2012-09-19T16:48:30 rebuild-image-catalogs transfer module Succeeded 2012-09-19T16:48:36 set-property ...

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