I have just started with TEM 8.2.1093 and have now successfully patched a Solaris 10 SPARC server using a custom baseline, however
my question to you is when I connected to the server to see what was going on, I saw that the console had been brought down to single user mode (fine) but was sitting at the prompt to enter the root password… so I manually entered this and then after some time the patch cluster kicked in… Did I miss a step and that the password needed to be supplied earlier within the TEM baseline or does this simply play no role at all and the patches will have installed and the server reboot when the patches finished?
Logging in with the root password should not be necessary.
If you do, you could peek at the logs, maybe even do a tail -f on the most recent log in /var/opt/BESClient/__Global/Logs to see how the patching is progressing…