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Symptoms

Deployment Considerations

• After installing this patch, restart the pegasus service using the command service pegasus restart . If you do not use pegasus and want to keep the service off, you don't have to do anything.

• Applying this patch affects the CIMOM server running in the service console.

Download Instructions

Download and verify the patch bundle as follows:

1. Download patch ESX-1002963 from http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/vi3_patches.html .

2. Log in to the ESX Server service console as root.

3. Create a local depot directory.

# mkdir -p /var/updates

Note: VMware recommends that you use the updates directory.

4. Change your working directory to /var/updates .

# cd /var/updates

5. Download the tar file into the /var/updates directory.

7. Extract the compressed tar archive:

# tar -xvzf ESX-1002963.tgz

8. Change to the newly created directory, /var/updates/ESX-1002963:

# cd ESX-1002963

Installation Instructions

After you download and extract the archive, and if you are in the directory that you previously created, use the following command to install the update:

# esxupdate update

To run esxupdate from a different directory, you must specify the bundle path in the command:

# esxupdate -r file://<directory>/ESX-1002963 update

For example, if the host is called depot:

# esxupdate -r file:///depot/var/updates/ESX-1002963 update

During the update process, logs appear on the terminal. You can specify the verbosity of esxupdate logs by using the -v option as shown below.

# esxupdate -v 10 file://<directory>/ESX-1002963 update

For more information how to use esxupdate, see the Patch Management for ESX Server 3 tech note at http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx3_esxupdate.pdf .