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. Installing and configuring solstice disksuitesolaris volume. Solaris is a nonfree unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. 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. So if one of these contains 15040015, use can use that. Oracle solaris 10 support explained oracle solaris blog. When you add a disk drive to a diskset, solstice disksuite solaris volume manager repartitions the disk drive as follows so that the state database for the diskset can be placed on the disk drive. 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. 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.
Im trying to find out a way to display the latest patches installed in a solaris box. After quite successful evaluation of running mysql on solaris 10 we decided to move all. In the example below, the server pegasus has two internal disks c0t0d0 and c0t1d0 under disksuite control. Aug 21, 20 i am not happy to post nontechnical posts on unixarena. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root. However, patches cannot be backed out of the solaris 10 release. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. The solaris 10 1008 patch list provides a list of patches preapplied to the solaris 10 1008 release. Installing the solstice disksuite cscoh023 rebooting from the mirrored secondary disk. This procedure applies only to solaris 10 servers that have no zones or boot environments configured. But, solaris tm operating systemos also gives the flexibility to mirror the root disk using solaris tm volume managersvm, in solaris 10 os. 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. Analysis of the oracle solaris configuration, including networking, storage, and oracle solaris operating system features in use.
Solaristm 10 patching best practices course reference. Easiest way to do this is to copy the partition table from the root mirror c0t1d0s2 to the new disk. 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. Cscoh022 solaris 10 patches for sparcbased platforms cscoh023 disksuite installation scripts cscoh024 logspool installation for sparcbased platforms cscoh026 xterm, ftp, ntp, and alarm software installation for sparcbased platforms cscoh032 solaris 10 patches for opteronbased platforms. The appropriate patches are applied as you create new clients. This document provides the steps involved for installing solstice disksuite 4. Prepare iso with solaris 10 u11, recommended patch cluster, lu patch. Solstice disk suite is a part of server edition of the solaris os and is not included with desktop edition. This document provides the stepbystep procedure, to install and maintain the solaris volume manager, in a solaris 10 os for x86 platforms environment for sun firetm x64 platforms. Systems running earlier versions of solaris must be upgraded to solaris 8 before solstice disksuite 4. Cscoh020 mgc security package cscoh021 verification test suite scripts cscoh022 solaris 10 patches for sparcbased platforms cscoh023 disksuite installation scripts cscoh024 logspool installation for sparcbased platforms. Pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches. And since youre using a sparc system, are you sure you dont have a valid support contract. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgrading patching solaris.
Solaris 10 patches come in zip format, such as 10494502. How to upgrade and patch with oracle solaris live upgrade pdf. I would like to patch the server by installing the recommended patch cluster from oracle solaris 10. 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. Live upgrade solaris with mirrored disks general it. I am seeking help to add patches to solaris 10 on 64 bit sparc server. Solaris advanced system administrators guide, second. Patching solaris 10 on servers with nonglobal zones. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool. As unix admin, we have to provide those patch bundles information to. Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology. Solaris 10 1 patchset released and latest solaris 10.
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. I hope oracle is not going to abandon solaris 10 in sake of their new solaris 11 express release. Download pca for system registered with oracle csi. Installing and configuring solstice disksuitesolaris. Cisco media gateway controller software installation and. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware. Solaris 10 1008 operating system patch list solaris 10. 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. But i felt this post will be helpful for solaris administrators to find the latest os patch bundles from oracle.
The solaris 10 cpus critical patch updates on mos are archived copies of the solaris 10 recommended patchsets taken on the cpu date. You can use the admclientpatch command to spool additional patches or you can remove patches from the spool area that you no longer need. 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. 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. An overview of oracle solaris live upgrade for os upgrades, patching, and as a. As a first step, download the recommended patch cluster from the my oracle support mos site. How to find the lun id of the newly assigned disk to sun solaris 5. Jun 05, 2011 how to find the lun id of the newly assigned disk to sun solaris 5. 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. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 11 host. Solaris live upgrade tutorial liveupgrade what is it. Manager and, with some extra scripting, with veritas volume manager 4.
Apache web server in this example was compiled from sources on solaris 10. Live upgrade is a feature of solaris since version 2. With oracle solaris 10 807, and subsequent releases, patching oracle solaris. Solaris 10 has a new feature boot m verbose which allows you to customize boot console output. Limitations exist with certain device drivers in solaris 10 os 65 dvdromcdrom drives on headless systems 66 6 solaris 10 release notes january 2005 10 61 61. How to find the lun id of the newly assigned disk to sun. How to get to solaris 10 patches post premier support tales from. By default solaris 10 have no named make utility, its have gmake. The adminsuite product ships a small number of required patches for different releases of solaris. Oracle solaris 10 extended support will continue to supply you with fixes, security patches, security alerts for oracle solaris 10 similar to oracle solaris 10 premier support for 3 years. This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the.
Solstice disksuite soft partitions not hard at all. The patches that are listed in this chapter have been applied to the solaris 10 operating system in one. Disksuite was released as an addon product for sunos. Ive been trying to find from where i can download patches updates.
Metadevice numbers and state database replicas are taken from those used on the actual system. If you installed solaris 9 software, solaris volume manager is already installed. Ive been trying to find from where i can download patchesupdates. 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. Solstice disksuite soft partitions not hard at all dr. But the recommendation is always to use the latest solaris 10 recommended patchset. Solaris 10 was originally launched in january 2005, and over its lifespan has introduced a ton of ground breaking features, like the zfs volume. Traditional method non live upgrade by admin this post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of. How would i add a kernel patch to a jumpstart image.
During the solaris 10 extended support period, the updates to the recommended patchsets will contain patches that require a solaris 10 extended support contract, so the solaris 10 recommended patchsets will also require a solaris 10 extended support contract during this period. With solaris 8, disksuite moved to the solaris 8 software cdrom number two, in the ea directory. Presumably, it is not yet integrated into the oracle support portal and solaris system utilities. Solaris 10 patching using live upgrade with vxvm unix and linux. Please list command and specific directory that patches should the unix and linux forums. Supported platforms this document describes the specific steps necessary for installing the sun solaris 10 operating system and the operating environment on the netra t and sunfire platforms. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. The operating system is mirrored between the two devices, with slices five and six on each disk employed for state database replicas. Solaris 9 svm name changes now solaris volume manager, soft partitions introduced, backported to 4. Solstice disksuite soft partitions not hard at all dr dobbs. Please shutdown before you perform any additional volume manager. I am not happy to post nontechnical posts on unixarena. Patching best practices for the solaris 10 os docdeveloppement.
Installing the log and spool file systems cscoh024. Unix my first love check veritas volume manager version. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Solaris live upgrade tutorial liveupgrade mattzone. How to replace a failed scsi disk mirrored with solstice. The showrev p command provides a list of all patches that were applied to the installed system, regardless of how they were applied. The disksuite packages have moved around a bit with each release of solaris. Solaris 10 1008 operating system patch list solaris 10 10. Live upgrade is especially useful because sun does not officially support installing os patches to active partitions patching while in single user mode or to a non. Patches released after the solaris 10 1008 release can be found on the my oracle support.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here. See the how to and resources tabs for all our patching documentation for solaris users with various levels of patching experience. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. Even if you think that youll not use disksuite, do create the slice, as its a small investment into disk space, and. Installing and configuring solstice disksuite or solaris volume. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
Correct, its not possible to get solaris 10 patches with out a valid support contract. If you have solstice disksuite software patches to install, do not reboot after you. Solstice disksuite solaris volume manager repartitions the disk drive as follows so that the state database for the diskset can be placed on the disk drive. Volume manager on solaris, patch detail veritas services and. At the time of this writing, solaris 8 is the most commonly deployed version of solaris, so well use that as the basis for this example. Dec 11, 2010 in fact, oracle has migrated all sun servers hosting solaris patches to its own servers. Disksuite questions i want to start experimenting with disksuite 4.
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. These patches were applied when the solaris 10 os was created. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Its similar to the solaris 89 patchset installation codes, but there are more codes added to the list. This article describes the process of applying a solaris recommended patch cluster, or patchset as it is now called. With solaris 10, patching the global zone will install the patches on all zones by default, unless the affected package isnt installed on the target zone or you explicitly ask to install. Removing volumes using solaris 9 volume manager commands removing a state database replica removing a stripe removing a concatenation removing a mirror removing a raid5 volume removing a hot spare. I understand that most would do it without breaking mirrors but i have never installed patches with disksuite and 2 of my servers are remote and highavailability, so downtime must be minimal. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021.
If you installed solaris 9 or solaris 10 software, solaris volume manager is. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 10 host. Customers would like to install latest os patch bundles to keep their systems update to date. A small portion of each disk drive is reserved in slice 7 for use by solstice disksuite solaris volume manager software.
Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgradingpatching solaris. Therefore, these patches are not located in the varsadm patch directory. I want to add an additional disk to a solaris 10 server. Note for procedures on migrating to solaris 10 and cisco mgc 9. Jul 07, 2009 solaris 9 svm name changes now solaris volume manager, soft partitions introduced, backported to 4. This indicates that disksuite has automatically disabled the submirrors, so there is no need to metadetach the submirrors. Starting the solaris 9, disksuite is now included with the operating system. Patches may only be loaded on the global zone but not on. Hi, i have solaris 10 sparc server with two nonglobal zoneone is whole zone and the other is sparse zone.
Solstice disksuitesolaris volume manager repartitions the disk drive as follows so that the state database for the diskset can be placed on the disk drive. Dec 04, 2017 well, lets start with extended support. The solaris 10 software includes a known and tested level of patches. In 2010, after the sun acquisition by oracle, it was renamed oracle solaris solaris is known for its scalability, especially on sparc systems, and for originating many innovative features such as dtrace, zfs and time slider. Installing the opteronbased solaris 10 patches package cscoh032. This version of pca patch check advanced allows to maintain solaris os patches using oracle solaris premier subscriptions and oracle csi account instead of the sunsolve account with sun contract. Is disksutie part of solaris 10 or should i used format uitility to add the hard drive and then volumne manager to extend the new hard drive. 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. By matthew cheek, february 26, 2003 the sun solaris operating environment oe is a mature implementation of unix that runs both on sun sparc and intel x86 architecture hardware. April 6, 2006 april 6, 2006 stany consulting, software. Getting solaris 10 patches with smpatch, pca and oracle. Solaris 10 includes suns java desktop system jds, which is based on. Io, solstice disksuite, ipmp, first support for ipv6 and ipsec manual keying only.
I have managed to get my hands on the following hardware. Our machine, salsa, is running solaris 10u2 on an x86 host with root disks. This page provides the latest information on patching. Other times, a patch may come in as a jar file indicated by a. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. The first step to setting up mirroring using disksuite is to install the disksuite packages and any necessary patches for systems prior to solaris 9. Earlier it has global is solaris 10, container is 10.
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