Anyone that has ever raised a call with Sun Support will know of Explorer - it's the tool we use to collect a snapshot of the state of a system to assist in supporting that system.
A few days ago we successfully released Explorer 5.5, which is now available at http://sunsolve.sun.com/explorer along with a list of changes and documentation.
One of the biggest features in this version is something people have been asking for for a while - the ability to automatically upload an Explorer to Sun over HTTPS.
When configuring Explorer 5.5 it will ask :
At the completion of explorer, all output may be sent to Sun or alternate destinations.
Target: https://supportfiles.sun.com/curl
Send explorer output via HTTPS if -P is specified?
[y,n]
If you answer "y", then uploading Explorer to Sun is as simple as running "explorer -P".
At this stage you can't set a proxy server in Explorer itself, but it will honor the "HTTPS_PROXY" environment variable, so you can run it as follows :
[...]
Jul 30 22:38:36 docbert[11637] explorer: data collection complete
Jul 30 22:39:16 docbert[11637] exp_https: explorer.80b9cb7f.docbert-2006.07.30.12.32.tar.gz sent via https to https://supportfiles.sun.com/curl
You can also set it by adding a HTTPS_PROXY entry to the /etc/opt/SUNWexplo/explorer/default file, but keep in mind that this will be overwritten if you reconfigure Explorer.