I agree.
However, it's not the impression we have been given through the channel. According to the following newsletter extract, it says a CCO-acquired patch will be needed and that customers get the patches directly from Cisco employees.
CLUBNETMAN Msg 3 (23 Nov 2001) - Enterprise ManagementNewsletter
Raymond Cheng <racheng@cisco.com>
2/ CiscoWorks and Solaris 8 support
Development engineering has finalized testing of CiscoWorks2000
applications on
Solaris 2.8 and there are no known OS-specific issues. However, customers
installing
the products (Cisco LAN Management Solution,Cisco Routed WAN Management
Solution, Cisco Service Management Solution, Cisco Voice Manager, Cisco
VPN/Security Management Solution, Cisco VoIP Health Monitor 1.0) on
Solaris 2.8 will encounter the following WARNING message:
WARNING: OS Version 5.8 not supported.
WARNING: Results not guaranteed if installed on this version.
The customer is then asked whether he/she wants to continue with the
installation.
The warning messages are also recorded in the ciscoinstall.log file.
Due to the appearance of these error messages and the likely resultant TAC call
burden Cisco is not producing a product bulletin at this time announcing
support for
CiscoWorks2000 applications on Solaris 2.8. The intent is that customers
get informed of Solaris 2.8 support as well as the error messages and
required patches directly by Cisco employees
The following recommended Solaris patches should be installed to run
CiscoWorks2000 applications on Solaris 2.8:
Patch NoReadmeDescription
111626-01ReadmeOpenWindows 3.6.2: Xview Patch
111363-01ReadmeSunOS 5.8: /usr/sbin/installf patch
111327-02ReadmeSunOS 5.8: libsocket patch
110951-01ReadmeSunOS 5.8: /usr/sbin/tar and /usr/sbin/static/tar patch
110949-01ReadmeSunOS 5.8: /usr/sadm/install/bin/pkgremove patch
110945-02ReadmeSunOS 5.8: /usr/sbin/syslogd patch
110934-01ReadmeSunOS 5.8: pkgtrans, pkgadd, pkgchk and libpkg.a patch
110898-02ReadmeSunOS 5.8: csh/pfcsh patch
110700-01ReadmeSunOS 5.8: automount patch
110670-01ReadmeSunOS 5.8: usr/sbin/static/rcp patch
110662-02ReadmeSunOS 5.8: ksh patch
110615-01ReadmeSunOS 5.8: sendmail patch
110286-02Readme OpenWindows 3.6.2: Tooltalk patch
109742-04Readme SunOS 5.8: /kernel/drv/icmp patch
109326-05Readme SunOS 5.8: libresolv.so.2, in.named patch
109324-02Readme SunOS 5.8: sh/jsh/rsh/pfsh patch
109322-07Readme SunOS 5.8: libnsl patch
109279-13Readme SunOS 5.8: /kernel/drv/ip patch
109137-01Readme SunOS 5.8: /usr/sadm/install/bin/pkginstall patch
108991-13ReadmeSunOS 5.8: /usr/lib/libc.so.1 patch
108827-10Readme SunOS 5.8: libthread patch
108652-35Readme X11 6.4.1 Xsun patch
108528-09Readme SunOS 5.8: kernel update patch
Caveats for DFM and IPM:
For DFM to function properly a patch must be directly required at Cisco.
For IPM to function properly the Solaris patch 108940-07 or higher is
required in addition to the Solaris OS patches listed in the
"Workaround/Solution" section of this notice.
