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. Are updates free and can be downloaded for solaris 10. I would like to patch the server by installing the recommended patch cluster from oracle solaris 10. Chapter 25 troubleshooting solaris volume manager tasks. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. My understanding is that showrev p would show patches but not the date they were installed. Coz this server might patch very long back so it will increase server. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Correct, its not possible to get solaris 10 patches with out a valid support contract. Generally cpu os patch cluster will take more time to complete the patching activity dependence on the running kernel patch level. I am not happy to post nontechnical posts on unixarena. I have started aka in 2009 as my own personal reference blog, and later sometime i have realized that my leanings might be helpful for other unixadmins if i manage my knowledgebase in more user friendly format. This is to prepare the server for the installation of oracle 10g. Customers would like to install latest os patch bundles to keep their systems update to date.
We are getting multiple requests for solaris kernel patching procedure from many of your gurkul followers. Patches released after the solaris 10 1008 release can be found on the my oracle support. How can i determine the last time a solaris machine was. Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology. I have to install some latest patches on my sparc machine running solaris 10. Earlier it has global is solaris 10, container is 10. Howto unmirror a file system that cannot be unmoun. As unix admin, we have to provide those patch bundles information to. Download the latest solaris 10 patches using patchfinder and find updated support content using the sunsolve knowledgebase.
How can i determine the last time a solaris machine was patched. Feb 18, 2010 package and patch installation logs in solaris. Ten ways to easily improve oracle solaris zfs file. If there is insufficient space in var of an existing system, the recommended solution is to extend the size of the var partition. Typically, solaris computers use run level 3 or multiuser mode. Hi all, i added a new disk slice to the current metadb.
Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool. After this promotion ends, solaris 10 security fixes will remain available to everyone. Part of this was my work as an external beta tester for sun microsystems. To list the applied patches or to dertermine the presence of a specific patch, use the showrev command. Solaris 10 volume manager adding slice to metadb unix and. Delete unavailable replicas by using the metadb command. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Live upgrade solaris with mirrored disks general it. Solaris 10 was originally launched in january 2005, and over its lifespan has introduced a ton of ground breaking features, like the zfs volume managerfilesystem, dtrace, zones, service management facility, trusted extensions and more. Oracle solaris 10 1 update 11 patch bundle for x86 systems. Solaris zfs command line reference cheat sheet solaris 11. For a limited time sunsolve will provide access to all solaris 10 patches.
Apr 18, 2003 this sample chapter covers the installation section of the solaris 8 system adminstrator exam. Ive been trying to find from where i can download patches updates. Using solaris live upgrade lu to patch cpu patch cluster. Since its inception, one of the big features in solaris 10 has been zfs zettabyte file system which has also improved over the years. 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. Find answers to how to remove the solaris 10 sparc patch. Using this solution, the downtime can go between 10 to 30 minutes of. Aug 21, 20 i am not happy to post nontechnical posts on unixarena. Oracle kept sending me to a page recommending i use sunsolve.
Here is the procedure to upgrade the kernel patches in solaris 10 with zfs filesystem using live upgrade method 1. It determines the solaris version number of the managing host and the target host. We are getting multiple requests for solaris kernel patching procedure from. Hello guysnewbie to solaris here i need to get this patch on my solaris 10 sparc machine. You can use the oracle solaris 10 jumpstart technology and finish scripts to patch. I installed patch manager but in its read me file i found out that its only for solaris 8 and there is some update manager for solaris 9. Show applied patches or check for a specific patch in solaris. See the how to and resources tabs for all our patching documentation for solaris users with various levels of patching experience.
Patches may only be loaded on the global zone but not on. Each marketing release of solaris has its own set of patches. The solaris 10 cpus critical patch updates on mos are archived copies of the solaris 10 recommended patchsets taken on the cpu date. This document provides stepbystep instructions to install the solaris patch set 4. Chapter 24 troubleshooting solaris volume manager solaris. List of solaris 10 patches which update the libc version doc id 2069855. As a first step, download the recommended patch cluster from the my oracle support mos site. Solaris 10 os patching using lu live upgrade method.
It updates the patch packages pkginfo file with information about patches made obsolete by the patch being installed, other patches required by this patch, and about patches incompatible with this patch. To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here. In the patch system test lab, we currently have solaris 10 systems with 7gb used in var and this will continue to grow over the lifetime of solaris 10. Its similar to the solaris 89 patchset installation codes, but there are more codes added to the list. Here a notes for solaris 10 patching update that can be used as reference. 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. Upgrading to solaris 10 engineering computer network.
The patches that are listed in this chapter have been applied to the solaris 10 operating system in one. As per part of take over i need to apply latest security patch in solaris 10 zone1,zone2 and zone3, but global is solaris 11. For the release you are using, see the solaris live upgrade documentation on docs. Find answers to mirror breaking in solaris 10 from the expert community at experts exchange. These release notes also include endofsoftware support statements, documentation issues, and a list of integrated patches. Registering solaris 10 and updating patches from the. Creating a new metadevice is an example of a configuration change. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. I am seeking help to add patches to solaris 10 on 64 bit sparc server. This document is based upon sparc solaris 10 obp all the following commands are to be run from the obp and not the os. Does anyone know of a command that would show the list of patches installed and the date it was installed. A submirror failure is an example of a state change.
How to patch a live system mirrored with svm blogo thnet. This page provides the latest information on patching. Oracle released solaris 10 811 this week providing performance improvements and new hardware support. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use. Solaris 10 mirror repartition i ran into a problem may times, where in customer wants to resize the root partition due to not enough free space to allow os cluster patch installation. So if one of these contains 15040015, use can use that.
So, solaris 11 which is radically different from the solaris 10, but talk about it separately it deserves another blog post for another time in terms of patching strategy is double. How to apply patchset cluster to solaris servers system. 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. Learn how to install solaris 8, add and remove packages, list installed packages, add and remove patches, and list installed patches. When i enter below command to create meta db getting the following. List of solaris 10 patches which update the libc version. Solaris operating system version 10 305 to 10 1 u11 release 10. The guide presents the key concepts of the course but it does not contain all the content presented in the course itself. Solaris 10 1008 operating system patch list solaris 10 10.
The solaris 10 operating system first debuted in 2004 and has been updated on a regular basis ever since. This procedure applies only to solaris 10 servers that have no zones or boot environments configured. To install oracle solaris 10, you must patch the miniroot of the installation media with ku15040029, or higher. So i had to repartition but i didnt want to reinstall. If you are using solaris live upgrade from another release, you might need slightly different procedures. Understanding metadb flags the geek diary skip to primary navigation. And since youre using a sparc system, are you sure you dont have a valid support contract. Device id discrepancies after upgrading to the solaris 10 release recovering from.
Hi, i have solaris 10 sparc server with two nonglobal zoneone is whole zone and the other is sparse zone. Please list command and specific directory that patches should the unix and linux forums. The solaris 10 release notes documents important installation and runtime issues and bugs. First delete state database replicas from rootmirror disk. I am trying to determine patch levels and how long some solaris machines have been without patching in order to support triaging which systems to patch first. 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.
Solaris volume manager automatically updates the metadevice state database when a configuration or state change occurs. 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. Solaris 10 1008 operating system patch list solaris 10. A list of the solaris volume manager patches that have been installed. By default, the bigfix solaris patch solution applies solaris patches in the current run level of the computer. This article describes the process of applying a solaris recommended patch cluster, or patchset as it is now called. It may be necessary to save off certain parts of an existing hosts filesystems. For recommended patch clusters and critical patch updates, use the solaris 10. Solaris 10 mirror repartition posted on january 27, 2015 by sandeep shenoy i ran into a problem may times, where in customer wants to resize the root partition due to not enough free space to allow os cluster patch installation.
Understanding metadb flags by admin the state database contains the configuration and status information of all volumes, hot spares and disk sets. This procedure provides commands for the solaris 10 807 release. Posting updated june 6, 20, with new solaris 10 kernel patchids 150400xx sparc and 150401xx x86. Please list command and specific directory that patches should. Use the fixlets on the various solaris sites to apply oracle patches and updates to your deployment. The eeprom command can be used from the os to view or set openboot rmware variables. Oracle solaris 10 1 update 11 patch bundle for sparc systems. Package and patch installation logs in solaris my digital.
There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. Hi, does anybody know how to check solaris 11 patch version. That is, theres one set of patches for solaris 8, a separate set of patches for solaris 9, and another set of patches for solaris 10. Some applications require a specific set of patches in order to function properly. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021.
Patch installation on solaris10 unix and linux forums. For more information about download plugins, see download plugins. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Oracle recommends that some patches, including cluster and kernel patches, be applied with the computer in single user mode. Our machine, salsa, is running solaris 10u2 on an x86 host with root disks. The example system we will be using has svm based mirrored root. Check the health of all metadatabase replicas metadbs and svm metadevices. How to apply a patch when using solaris live upgrade. Solaris live upgrade solaris 9 to solaris 10 my digital. To list all patches applied to the system, run the following. Or i must buy support to obtain updates, as in rhel. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and b efore choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. Oct 26, 2011 for servers with solaris 10 os at, or near, update 1 106 or update 2 606, if nonglobal zones are already configured and running, patching these servers at single user mode will encounter issues. Solaris 10 1 patchset released and latest solaris 10.
Following packages are part of it but only the sunwmd is the minimum required package and a patch. It moves outdated files and directories to the var directory. Pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches. The solaris 10 1008 patch list provides a list of patches preapplied to the solaris 10 1008 release. But we have to make sure backup everything include create zfs snapshot and splitting zfs mirror for rollback plan. Patch administration installing and maintaining solaris 8. As usual, weve released a patchset of all the patches contained in solaris 10 1 update 11. 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. But i felt this post will be helpful for solaris administrators to find the latest os patch bundles from oracle. One can also analyze which dependencies need to be installed for a specific patch or multiple patches. For information about the available fixlet sites for solaris, see supported platforms and updates. Howto unmirror a file system that can be unmounted. Mar 30, 2010 im here presenting the steps worklogs that i gathered while i performed the live upgrade of solaris 9 operating environment to solaris 10 operating environment.
Once we get the approval, we can start our change in scheduled window. Svm on sun solaris, please refer to the dedicated entry in this blog. Installed patches related information can be found out from patchadd p as well as showrev p commands. Patching solaris 10 on servers with nonglobal zones. In older versions of solaris 10, the etchosts file was the definitive data store for. Solaris 10 os patching using lu live upgrade method 10. This provided the opportunity for a number of people to test solaris 10 on a large amount of hardware and software. How to get to solaris 10 patches post premier support. Check the the current kernel version and confirm whether upgrade is required or not. Patching best practices for the solaris 10 os with sam. 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.
But eventually all good things must continue reading how to get to solaris 10 patches post premier support. Solaris 10 mirror repartition solaris specialists blog. The main purpose of this technical note is to demonstrate how to patch a running live system currently mirrored using svm, minimizing the downtime as far as possible the idea is simple. Patch content caching must be done through the download plugin unless you are using an airgapped environment. It does not necessarily apply to some applications embedded in solaris, such as staroffice. They are only valid on sparc hardware that uses the openboot rmware. Today i am going to show you 2 things1 download patchset from oracle support and apply it on solaris 10 machine. This solaris 10 patching best practices course reference guide is a supplement to the webbased training course ws2700s10. To test the booting of our server from both the disks to make sure that the server will come up with both of the disks without any issues. If your system is currently running oracle solaris 10, you can find its patch level with the commands showrev1m and uname1. Thanks, so there is no way to apply security patches in solaris 10 as they are sharing solaris 11 libraries.
The solaris 10 recommended patchset on mos will always be the latest version, which is the one which is recommended to use. Minimum requirements for solaris 10 in guest ldoms on m7. I am trying to present the simple patching procedure when. Sep 17, 2015 regarding to oracle security alert cve list, we need to apply solaris recommended bundle patch instead of apply one by one patch. 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. I am new to solaris and having problem with svm to create mirroring on m4000 server with solaris 10. The post describes the meaning of the fields displayed in the metadb i command. This example upgrade has been done in x86 virtual machine in virtual box. This document describes the installation and configuration of solaris 10 hosts at ecn.
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