The zones update on attach feature and patching in the solaris 10 os analyzing a. A zone cluster can be in a readyoffline state when it is booted because of incomplete oracle solaris system configuration in the zones of the zone cluster. Here is the procedure we followed to modify the kernel parameters on solaris 10 oracle 10. Once patches 11925452 or later and 12266010, along with their required patches have been installed, all other patches can then be installed as nonglobal zones in halted state. This tool is included in solaris 10 and is able to analyze systems, download and install patches. If using live upgrade to upgrade an inactive boot environment from solaris 8 or 9 to solaris 10, you must activate and boot into the solaris 10 boot environment before patching it. In this model, the first step of the scientific method is to make observations. In 2003, an addition to the solaris development process was initiated.
Solaris 10 includes suns java desktop system jds, which is based on. Sometimes the scientific method is taught with seven steps instead of six. How to stop if solaris system it rebooting continually. The solaris patch manager tool provides all the necessary features in one application. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgradingpatching solaris. They contain a number of links to resources which i hope you will find useful. Method of procedures for solaris 10 patch install solutions.
Take an instance, there are sol1 and sol2 nodes and having two failover zones like sozone1rg and. 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 the patch on the global zone only g. Beginners guide to oracle solaris live upgrade the geek. In addition, solaris 10 uses samba to allow a solaris server to act as a windows nt or 2000 domain controller. Make sure this jumpstart configuration is suited to your environment. This operation is much easier than solaris 10 os patch bundle installation. Solaris live upgrade is designed and compiled to work on the solaris 8, 9, and 10 os releases. I have done this with svm and vxvm mirrored root fss by splitting them to keep one safe partition as a backout plan for the future. In the next screen, i will use the local discovery method because my disk is locally attached. Nov 25, 2009 free solaris 10 patching best practices training. In addition, this course explains fundamental commandline features of the solaris os. Check the health of all metadatabase replicas metadbs and svm metadevices.
For example, activate and boot into the solaris 10 boot environment, and either patch the live boot environment or create another inactive boot environment, and then apply patches to the inactive boot environment. Jan 06, 2011 heres a document and a corresponding presentation ive written describing the oracle solaris 10 recommended patching strategy. The zones of the zone cluster are in the interactive system configuration mode to wait for the input. During the installation process, you can go to the next step by pressing f2 and go back by pressing f3. Welcome to hpes interactive oracle solaris support and certification.
I am trying to present the simple patching procedure when our disks are under solaris volume manager control, svm. Even though we show the scientific method as a series of steps, keep in mind that new information or thinking might cause a scientist to back up and repeat steps at any point during the process. Any one of the cli tools mentioned for solaris will provide an easy process to automate patch management. Training for solaris 10 patching oracle solaris blog. For each system resource, metrics for utilization, saturation and errors are identified and checked. Here youll find all solaris patching related resources including best practice guidelines, training, articles, patch news.
Take an instance, there are sol1 and sol2 nodes and having two failover zones like sozone1rg and sozone2rg and currently. Solaris 10 system administration essentials is the first book to concisely yet comprehensively cover all of the breakthrough features of the solaris 10 operating system. Sun patch check and patchdiag can be used to find patches. We are in the process of moving from sun solaris to ibmaix. Finally you might want to configure internet to your solaris 10 vm, to do this do the following. How to upgrade and patch with oracle solaris live upgrade. Click on a recommended patch cluster based on the solaris release runningon the system to be patched.
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. Everything you can do is mentioned on the bottom of the screen. This is becoming quite rare, especially for local ones, but your customer didnt put the odds on his side by both disabling ufs logging which avoids most file system corruptions caused by an abrupt poweroff and by not using zfs which cannot be corrupt in the first place by design. We are getting multiple requests for solaris kernel patching procedure from many of your gurkul followers. I have very little experience with method of procedures. I have done this with svm and vxvm mirrored root fss by splitting them to keep one safe partition as a backout plan for the future purpose just incase the patching gives any issues. Solaris 10 system administration essentials is part of a new series on solaris system administration. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgrading patching solaris. I thought it was about time i took another look, since a lot of the updates in opensolaris were looking good. Edit virtual machine select cdrom click radio button use iso image give the location of the solaris 10 downloaded iso image. In a way, this patching business of the systems before doing the lu defeats the purpose of using lu, because i realized when migrating from solarisu3 to solarisu7, one of the patches required a reboot here is how i used pca. Oracle solaris installation program provides an interactive upgrade with a graphical user interface or commandline interface. Download the dvdfrom oracle website and install on virtual box. If the server owner or applicationdb teams is requesting you to patch the solaris 11, you have to update the system using pkg commands.
Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Solaris versions 7, 8, 9, or 10 can be upgraded to the most recent version of solaris 10 using live upgrade. During the weekend i was looking into installing solaris 10 on vmware, i tried to document the step by step procedure while accomplishing this task. For example, if your current os is the solaris 8 release and you want to upgrade to the solaris 10 release, you need to install the solaris live upgrade packages from the solaris 10 release.
Then click ok from the above we have configured the vm to install solaris 10. The system loads the enduser distribution group and sets up minimal swap space. Liveupgrade from solaris 9 to solaris 10 sysadmins journey. Aug 03, 2012 there are two different ways to install solaris. If not already created, create file etcdefaultrouter and enter your routers ip address. As mentioned in the first half of this chapter, patching as a separate process no longer exists. Step by step installation of solaris 10 on vmware server. All nonglobal zones need to be booted to single user mode first. Free solaris 10 patching best practices training cols tech. A process like the scientific method that involves such backing up and repeating is called an iterative process. Really, even if you dont make observations formally, you think about prior experiences with a subject in order to ask a question or solve a problem. 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.
Beginners guide to oracle solaris live upgrade the geek diary. Altmetrics data is provided by, a research metrics company who. Jumpstart configuration on new systems on a new system, the installation software is specified by a default profile based on the systems model and the size of its disks. To patch, you must upgrade to a newer version of the software. Cannot boot nor mount root partition after patching. If you think solaris patching is a complete nightmare, have a bit of spare time on your hands dont worry, you can still check emails etc and really want to get up speed on suns best practices for patching on solaris 10, then check out the free solaris 10 patching best practices ws2700s10 training course. Installing solaris 10 step by step tech support says. I was trying to upgrade to the latest patch level, but in single user mode while updating patch cluster i get. Solaris live upgrade enables system administrators to create and upgrade a boot environment that is initially inactive, without affecting the running system. Gerry haskins director security and release management. Upgrade planning oracle solaris 10 1 installation guide. Patching procedure in solaris 10 with sun cluster having. Heres how to leverage liveupgrade to safely upgrade from solaris 9 to solaris 10 using a spare disk. Change to the directory that contains the downloaded patch package,if necessary.
How to use pca patch check advanced on solaris 10 machine. Solaris is a proprietary unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. Try stopping vxesd, removing the disks with vxdisk rm and removing the dmp devices, then try the powermt remove again. The solaris os has a long history of innovation, and the solaris 10 os is a watershed release that includes features such as. Just run prstat and have a look to the last column, labeled processnlwp nlwp means number of lightweight processes which is precisely the number of threads the process is currently using with solaris as there is a onetoone mapping between lwp and user threads a single thread process will show 1 there while a multithreaded one will show a larger number. Sep 16, 2011 general procedure for kernel patching in solaris.
This product was built on solaris 10 using the following compilers from oracle solaris studio 12. Find answers to method of procedures for solaris 10 patch install from the expert community at experts exchange. The zone cluster wizard does not provide a method to enter data on nodes using oracle solaris 10 os 15874818 problem summary. Oracle solaris certification and support hewlett packard enterprise. The following demonstration shows the steps needed to connect a remote computer such as your home pc to the solaris unix server maintained by the department of computer science, william paterson university. Hi gurus i am not able to find the patching procedure for solaris 10 sol10 u11 to latest patchset with sun cluster having failover zones so that same i should follow. Sun have done some work in recent times with liveupgrade the last time i looked at it, a few years back now, it was rubbish. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Live upgrade upgrades a system by creating and upgrading a copy of the running system. Heres a document and a corresponding presentation ive written describing the oracle solaris 10 recommended patching strategy. Patching a live solaris 10 system with lu, zfs, and pca. Theyve launched a blog, which contains the initial introductory videos. Mar 31, 2015 from the above we have configured the vm to install solaris 10.
The example system we will be using has svm based mirrored root. Use the patchadd command to add patches to servers or standalone systems. The installation is complete, solaris 10 fresh install is ready to be used. Sun learning services are in the process of creating a number of patch related training lessons. If you need to add a patch to a diskless client system, see patching diskless client os services when you add a patch, the patchadd command calls the pkgadd command to install the patch packages from the patch directory to a local systems disk. For instance, the following command will show only disabled and offline services, which quite often is exactly what we want. Onsnmp the snmp agent for onsnmp is based on snmp research snmpr. Lets start installing solaris 10 installation of solaris 10 power on the virtual machine and you should see the grub menu select solaris from the menu and press enterreturn key. The upgrade methods for solaris 8, solaris 9, and oracle solaris 10 are. Sun learning services are in the process of creating a number of patch. Kindly help me in step by step procedure for the same including rollback plan. I will upgrade the kernel patch through bundle patching using solaris live upgrade. The standard upgrade process requires taking the system offline to do an upgrade.
For details, see the procedure in notes on installing oracle solaris 10 on a. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. 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. What is the best method to run patch for live systesms. A note for those of you taking the oracle certified professional solaris 10 system administator exam 1z0877 oracle recently changed the exam number for the oracle certified professional solaris 10 system administator exam, part 1 from cx310200 to 1z0877.
No data is ever deleted, and to roll back to solaris 9, all you need is one command and a reboot. How to apply os kernel patch on solaris 10 server which. It is a practical guide to deploying and managing the solaris 10 operating system in a business or academic environment. When something doesnt work like expected, one of the first commands to find whats wrong is svcs a. 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. If you have any queries about patching, why not post them on the oracle solaris install, booting, and patching community forum. The use method provides a strategy for performing a complete check of system health, identifying common bottlenecks and errors. If you need to add a patch to a diskless client system, see patching diskless client os services. A common root cause of such a problem is an issue while mounting file systems due to some file system corruption. How to patch a live system mirrored with svm blogo thnet. 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. Unlike earlier releases of solaris, most of the system parameters needed to run oracle are already set properly, so the only one you need is the maximum shared memory parameter.
Thus, if you want the reliability of sparc hardware coupled with the widespread adoption of microsoft windows as a desktop operating system, solaris 10 running samba is an ideal solution. As virtual box and solaris are provided by oracle, the solaris vb image has already been optimized for the latest version of virtual box. Oracle technical paperoracle solaris 10 recommended patching strategy. I thought it was about time i took another look, since. Source solaris 10 iso image to be read on boot up, this can be done by clicking. The procedure given above is still being followed by many small scale setups and as i said this information gives good insights to patching topic of solaris. Note that bug fixes for some thirdparty or communitybased software delivered as part of oracle solaris may be provided through package upgrades rather than patches. It takes time to research patches and create a patch plan. Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology. After the patch or patches are download successfully, you can closethe web browser. With oracle solaris 10 807, and subsequent releases, patching oracle. There are two type of repositories are available in oracle. Solaris 10 recommended patching strategy oracle solaris blog. Solaris 10 patching issue i have a t5220 server and the patch level is.
We are in the process of moving from sunsolaris to ibmaix. Take an instance, there are sol1 and sol2 nodes and having two failover zones like sozone1rg and sozone2rg and currently both are present on sol1 node. This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. Solaris 10 system administration exam prep exam cx310. Installation of solaris 10 on virtual box something. Hi all, im looking for some helpadvice on patching aix. Note that each solaris release consists of a single source base. Table 22 oracle solaris and required srupatches supported by sparc m12.
Sun patch check and patchdiag can be used to find patches to install, but installation would have to be done manually. The solaris 10 operating system essentials course provides instruction in the key features and capabilities of solaris 10 os. Topics include file and directory management, controlling the user work environment, archiving files and using remote commands. Choose solaris interactive default from the menu and press enterreturn key. If you are a solaris administrator looking for a stepbystep guide to.
For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. In other words, you have to update the system instead of the patching it. A simple solaris live upgrade procedure involves below 4 steps. New solaris 11 patch and package installation methods. Adding a solaris patch system administration guide. I got the list of patches from the doc and put them in a. Patching solaris 10 on servers with nonglobal zones by ramdev published october 26, 2011 updated july 2, 2015 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. I need some one to explain this steps as i am new to this.
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