Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Registering solaris 10 and updating patches from the command line cli march 11, 2008 by kevin all the mainstream sun documentation on the sun connection or update manager expects the server to have a gui, which i completely dont understand. When doing the patch cluster on solaris 10, add the t switch to show older patch codes. Sun cluster system administration guide for solaris os. Sep 16, 2011 general procedure for kernel patching in solaris. On sun solve, the solaris administrator can also download patch clusters to be. Customers would like to install latest os patch bundles to keep their systems update to date. Getting cpu usage stats from c on solaris 10 stack overflow. Oraclesolaris patching using live upgrade unix my first love. You can now use the metastat command to verify that the striped metadevice. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and before choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem.
Based on you running solaris express on sparc, it appears youd need to flip to solaris 10, or more likely solaris 11 which would be closer to solaris express opensolaris that youre using. Command to find out when the patches are installed in solaris machine. Since solaris 10 10 08 update6 the boot archive feature was implemented into solaris 10 for sparc. Use one of the following methods to check mirror or submirror status. It resulted in io errors and a metastat in need maintenance state. Aix reference for sun solaris administrators ibm redbooks. Example to update the boot archive via failsafe boot on sparc. Latest solaris 10 patch bundles i dont know if its just my own ignorance or oracle purposely obfuscating the latest patch bundles for solaris but i recently had a hell of a time finding the january 2017 patch bundle for solaris 10. Home search unix man pages linux man pages today refresh page. Those of you still on solaris 10 may want to download the latest recommended patchset for solaris 10 which was published just last week, on 28th of january 2016. May 19, 2009 now that some of the systems i have to regularly patch are solaris 10 ones, i have to get used to the new patch return codes which one can see when applying one of the suns recommended patchsets.
Now if you populate the patchmanpatches directory then you will see the. Learn how to install solaris 8, add and remove packages, list installed packages, add and remove patches, and list installed patches. I am trying to present the simple patching procedure when our disks are under solaris volume manager control, svm. This method is not documented in the man page for metainit and is. Typically, solaris computers use run level 3 or multiuser mode. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. I would like to patch the server by installing the recommended patch cluster from oracle solaris 10. Command to find out when the patches are installed in solaris. If you followed the examples in the article, creating volumes using solaris 9 volume manager commands, most of the disk configuration described below should already exist. This document is based upon sparc solaris 10 obp all the following commands are to be run from the obp and not the os. Solaris 10 operating system solaris 10 106 solaris 10. Oracle recommends that some patches, including cluster and kernel patches, be applied with the computer in single user mode. Pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches. Solaris volume manager svm command line reference cheat.
By default, if run without any option or operand, pca shows a list of all patches which are not installed in their most recent revision. Solaris volume manager soft partitioning explained. Solaris fingerprint database companion and solaris fingerprint database sidekick. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. In fact, oracle has migrated all sun servers hosting solaris patches to its own servers. They are only valid on sparc hardware that uses the openboot rmware. Our machine, salsa, is running solaris 10u2 on an x86 host with root disks. How to patch a live system mirrored with svm blogo thnet. I have to install some latest patches on my sparc machine running solaris 10. But i felt this post will be helpful for solaris administrators to find the latest os patch bundles from oracle. By default, the bigfix solaris patch solution applies solaris patches in the current run level of the computer.
Since solaris 10 1008 update6 the boot archive feature was implemented into solaris 10 for sparc. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool. How to check the status of mirrors and submirrors solaris. Very often, under solaris 9, i have seen svm suddenly flag some or half of our disks as bad specially often after something disruptive has happened to the system like a disk got replaced, power outage, or a new disk array attached. I am not happy to post nontechnical posts on unixarena. As a first step, download the recommended patch cluster from the my oracle support mos site. Download solaris patch clusters from my oracle support. May 01, 2006 using this solution, the downtime can go between 10 to 30 minutes of service unavailability depending on the hardware post and a maximum of two reboots are required, whatever is the number of patches to apply. Registering solaris 10 and updating patches from the command. The cpu usage for specific lwps within that os process. Metastat shows state needs maintenance unix and linux forums. Hi, what are the best tools both sun and third party for patch management automation for a company using solaris 10 with zones. It is unwise to use the output of the metastat p command to create a md.
Unfortunately, one of the things lost was the incredible ease to. Check the outputs by metastat ac, metastat p, metastat t and metadb i. Traditional method non live upgrade by admin this post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of. Check the health of all metadatabase replicas metadbs and svm metadevices. Openssh installing openssh is not needed on solaris 9 or 10.
Jan 22, 2017 latest solaris 10 patch bundles i dont know if its just my own ignorance or oracle purposely obfuscating the latest patch bundles for solaris but i recently had a hell of a time finding the january 2017 patch bundle for solaris 10. This procedure applies only to solaris 10 servers that have no zones or boot environments configured. Hi, we have a solaris 10 machine with update 11 and was configured with ibm storage. Pca is very configurable, you can even get the results in html form. The output of metastat p might show hot spares being used.
Traditional method non live upgrade by admin this post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. Its similar to the solaris 89 patchset installation codes, but there are more codes added to the list. Getting solaris 10 patches with smpatch, pca and oracle. It is unwise to use the output of the metastatp command to create a md.
Android apache aptbtrfssnapshot aptget autostart btrfs calculated column centos compression debian deduplication hostname howto ip address linux list lvm mysql openvz performance proxmox redhat centos repository rhn satellite sds sharepoint 2007 solaris solaris 10 solaris 11 spacewalk ssh ubuntu ubuntu debian unity update usefull. The output of metastatp might show hot spares being used. Note that in the motif version there is a running man icon in the top right hand corner of. Aug 21, 20 i am not happy to post nontechnical posts on unixarena. On solaris 10, and in c, id like to regularly query numbers like. Mar 11, 2008 registering solaris 10 and updating patches from the command line cli march 11, 2008 by kevin all the mainstream sun documentation on the sun connection or update manager expects the server to have a gui, which i completely dont understand. Solaris flash archives creation and installation html. Using this solution, the downtime can go between 10 to 30 minutes of service unavailability depending on the hardware post and a maximum of two reboots are required, whatever is the number of patches to apply. Presumably, it is not yet integrated into the oracle support portal and solaris system utilities.
Be sure to read the usage section before doing anything. Now that some of the systems i have to regularly patch are solaris 10 ones, i have to get used to the new patch return codes which one can see when applying one of the suns recommended patchsets. The eeprom command can be used from the os to view or set openboot rmware variables. Patch installation on solaris10 unix and linux forums.
Live upgrade solaris with mirrored disks general it. Apr 19, 2017 oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and 298 other security bugs mega load of updates lands for tons of big red gear by iain thomson in san francisco 19 apr 2017 at 00. I am new to solaris and i have a very dumb question. I hope oracle is not going to abandon solaris 10 in sake of their new solaris 11 express release. Hello guysnewbie to solaris here i need to get this patch on my solaris 10 sparc machine. The s operation completes correctly only when hostname is running solaris 2. And since youre using a sparc system, are you sure you dont have a valid support contract. How to clear fmadm faulty entries in solaris 10 hp insight diagnostics offline hardware verification on hp proliant servers check if an account is locked on aix and when was the last time an user logged in. Theres only four such patchsets a year and this is quite handy for rolling baselines when you plan to patch all of your solaris 10 servers in a particular quarter. Theres only four such patchsets a year and this is quite handy for rolling baselines when you plan to. Let me assure you, the solaris 10 recommended patchset really does contain all available security fixes for the solaris os. I was excited at first to see the update manager in solaris 10, but became quckly discouraged after several lockups. Traditional method non live upgrade by admin like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgradingpatching solaris. To find out more about these so called meta devices, one can use the metastat command.
Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and 298 other security bugs mega load of updates lands for tons of big red gear by. How to use pca patch check advanced on solaris 10 machine. The recommended method of proactively applying patches is to use solaris live upgrade. The cool thing about this tool is that it actually resolves the dependencies between patches.
For all examples in this document, i will be utilizing a sun blade 150 connected to a sun storedge d disk array containing twelve 9gb 0 rpm ultrascsi disk. Which ones are the most widely used the most recommended. Removing volumes using solaris 9 volume manager commands. The metastat command displays the current status for each metadevice including stripes, concatenations, concatenations of stripes, mirrors, raid5, soft partitions, and trans devices or hot spare pool, or of specified metadevices, components, or hot spare pools. Removing patches from zone nt4 removing patches from zone sfw removing patches from global. This entry was posted in uncategorized and tagged patches, release, solaris, table, updates. Patch check advanced, pca, is a free tool that can be used to patch solaris systems. This sample chapter covers the installation section of the solaris 8 system adminstrator exam.
Apr 23, 2009 hi, what are the best tools both sun and third party for patch management automation for a company using solaris 10 with zones. The solaris 10 recommended patchset really does contain all. Recommended patchset for solaris 10 january 2016 solaris blog. This last weekend saw the switch off of sunsolve and the migration of the old sun support system across to oracles my oracle support. We are getting multiple requests for solaris kernel patching procedure from many of your gurkul followers. Patch administration installing and maintaining solaris 8. As unix admin, we have to provide those patch bundles information to. Md5 the md5 software is not needed for systems running the solaris 10 os, because the digest1m command now includes md5 functionality.
Solaris volume manager svm command line reference cheat sheet. Hi, i have solaris 10 sparc server with two nonglobal zoneone is whole zone and the other is sparse zone. This article describes the process of applying a solaris recommended patch cluster, or patchset as it is now called. From the enhanced storage tool within the solaris management console, open the volumes node, choose the mirror, then choose actionproperties. When the system is configured with solaris volume manager svm root mirror then attention is necessary if using the failsafe boot boot f failsafe on the ok prompt environment. Maintains the patchrm return codes from the solaris release prior to solaris 10. Solaris 10 tools for patch management automation oracle.
Solaris 10 operating system solaris 10 106 solaris 10 1. Let us grab the output of metastat to understand metadevice placement. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena.
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