You can use the following log files for troubleshooting patches in solaris 11. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. The steps for updating an oracle solaris 11 system with software packages. For both types of repositories, online and offline, you create a patch catalog. Oracle technical paperoracle solaris 10 recommended patching strategy 3 apply updates for thirdparty and homegrown software and hardware. Find answers to patching an offline solaris 10 sever. Wikis apply the wisdom of crowds to generating information for users interested in a particular subject. I appear to be having troubles installing the recommended cluster patch for the solaris 10 os. 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.
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. Should patching solaris 11 endpoints be done in singleuser mode. The example commands listed in this section should be executed with root privileges or by using sudo 1m or pfexec 1 commands. System patching one of the important job responsibility for solaris administrator. For example, on a default oracle solaris 11 installation, only datasets. Opatch takes long time to complete the patching stuck at oui67117 backing up files on solaris. Patching and upgrading your cluster managing your oracle. To download repository files, see oracle solaris 11. If you dont have a solaris setup to work,just install solaris as guest operating system on vmware workstations and get a hands on experience. This is an optional step that allows you to identify the key and certificate further. How to upgrade and patch with oracle solaris live upgrade.
Solaris 10 sparc, solaris 11 sparc and solaris 11 x64 veritas. Solaris 11 nonglobal zone patching glynn fosteroracle mar 3, 2016 12. The patches for solaris site contains the fixlet content that allows for global and nonglobal whole root zones patching. I need to check latest kernel version in solaris 10 container.
Take an instance, there are sol1 and sol2 nodes and having two failover zones like sozone1rg and sozone2rg and currently. Payload files are not required to create the patch catalog. Solaris 11 nonglobal zone patching oracle community. It keeps your solaris clients current with the latest oracle updates. Updating the software on your oracle solaris 11 system. The following command shows that oracle solaris 11. When a computer abruptly goes offline and comes back on, a new client id is assigned to the computer. Oracle technical paperoracle solaris 10 recommended patching strategy.
Ai provides handsfree installation of both sparc and x86 systems by using an installation service that installs systems from software package repositories on the network. Oracles ultimate goal is to make the solaris patching like redhat linux. So a decision was made to allow new driver support to ship in solaris update releases but for solaris to compete successfully against other operating systems, a gap of ca. So unzip your patchcluster always on the solaris maschine, then all files have proper user usually root and proper permissions everywhere. Setting up and managing an offline patch catalog for linux this topic is intended for system administrators or patch administrators in charge of performing patching for linux servers in an environment that does not have access to the internet. The first patch contains the repository files and the second patch. A simple solaris live upgrade procedure involves below 4 steps. For a customer on an early version of solaris 10, such as solaris 10 0305, solaris 10 106 update 1, or solaris 10 606 update 2, there is a very significant amount of code change delivered, for example, in the current kernel patch compared with the original kernels delivered in these releases.
As a result, the developers are working on a cumulative set of all previous changes. It is recommended to download the correct version if installrepo. Patch for solaris users guide hcl software product. 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. Solaris os patching on vcs or svm set up here i am providing step by step patching plan for vcs cluster setup environment. Solaris interview point here is the basic solaris interview questions which are commonly asked in solaris l1 or l2 level 1 or l2 interviews. Now i need to know how to check latest kernel version in solaris 10 container. Oracle solaris treats the storage as a pool, and as long as you have space in the pool for the oracle solaris snapshot, you can use oracle solaris os and oracle solaris live upgrade. You can search all wikis, start a wiki, and view the wikis you own, the wikis you interact with as an editor or reader, and the wikis you follow. Solaris live upgrade requires full control over the zpools when the oracle solaris os reboots in order to perform the necessary renaming of the zfs file systems and the changes to the zones configuration files.
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. I am currently trying to configure solaris 10 offline patch downloader using the allospatchdownloaderslinuxbuild8. In solaris 11, oracle removed the word called patches from their dictionary. Solaris is known for its scalability, especially on sparc systems, and for originating many innovative features such as dtrace, zfs. Installation of oracle solaris 11 repository updates sru offline.
Note that each solaris release consists of a single source base. May 01, 2009 apache2 australia bfu blogs competition dhcp dtrace dtrace php grub hostname inetadm ipsec jumpstart ldd nis nodename opencsw opensolaris oracle pam patches php pid provider pkgget pxe raidz s8ma smf solaris solaris 8 solaris 10 solaris books solaris express solaris install solaris os solaris zones ssh sun cluster sun microsystems truss uname. To upgrade a system that is running oracle solaris 11 express or the oracle solaris early adopter release, see oracle solaris 11 release notes. Interactive solaris package instances require response files. Hpux vcp although from what i can ascertain from the bsa 8. Solaris 10 container deployed from solaris 10 global zone to solaris 11 global zone.
The solaris patch manager tool provides all the necessary features in one application. Take all the configuration screenshot backup as well as explorer save it to your local laptop 4. Patch management overview and workflow documentation for. Oct 03, 2014 to install or update package in solaris 11 from repo file offline just simple follow these steps. Its similar to the solaris 89 patchset installation codes, but there are more codes added to the list. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. For example, if this system is running oracle solaris 11.
Oracle solaris 11 administration command cheat sheet. Check repository should be point to file which we change in step 2. Clientside caching for offline files oracle solaris administration. The computer tool patch is a unix program that updates text files according to instructions contained in a separate file, called a patch file. This guide uses the term nonglobal zone to refer to a local zone. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Patching most gnulinux installs is a simple task, which is highly scalable, and that can be fully automated through the use of cron scheduling, etc.
Windows patching only vmware update agent vum uses the same stpatchassessment. How to installupdate package from iso file in solaris 11. Managing solaris 11 servers via ansible from my fedora machine is actually less exciting than previously thought. Creating a patch catalog for solaris documentation for bmc server. During initial phases i have met some nice troubleshooting which i would like to share with you all. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root. From log, it looks the task oui67117 backing up files is taking a lot of time in solaris sparc environment. Most of the solaris administrators will search for solaris 11 os patch bundle like how we use to get for solaris 10 but you wont get it.
Beginners guide to oracle solaris live upgrade the geek. The documentation from oracle is your best friend when it comes to solaris questions the short answer is that pkg update or pkg update accept will update solaris to the most recent packages available from the ips repositories you have enabled on your system the long answer. In 2010, after the sun acquisition by oracle, it was renamed oracle solaris. Packages can be installed only into file systems that are part of a boot environment be. Aug 05, 2015 solaris installation automated installer ai is the new network based multiclient provisioning system on oracle solaris 11. Setting up and managing an offline patch catalog for. And when we are doing it online, it involves much more than just running patchadd commands. If you are using solaris 11 patches, you can only use a solaris 11.
Upgrading solaris 11 operating system using sru part i medium. This article is going to explain that how to update the solaris 11. Solaris live upgrade can be used to patch a system as well as to upgrade from an earlier marketing or update release of solaris live upgrade avoids many of the problems encountered when patching a live solaris 10 boot environment as live upgrade modifies an inactive boot environment, rather than the live boot environment. If this system does not have the solaris 11 cpu package installed, identify the solaris 11 cpu package for the sru that is installed, and query that package remotely. After the patch or patches are download successfully, you can close the web browser. Their cadence will typically be dictated by your business constraints. After applying this cumulative patch, you need to reconfigure any existing. The first patch contains the repository files and the. In offline mode, you use the bmc offline patch downloader utility to download metadata and payload information to a server with internet access.
Traditional method non live upgrade by admin this post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of. Howto update your oracle solaris 11 systems using support. The patch file also called a patch for short is a text file that consists of a list of differences and is produced by running the related diff program with the original and updated file as arguments. Ansible can be used to manage various kinds of server operating systems among them solaris 11.
The readme file for each sru includes lists of bugs fixed, packages updated, and interim diagnostic or relief idr updates superseded in this sru. Update current repository point to file repo download. Then, expand the process to all servers in the organization. Applying patches to the new boot environment or upgrading the os version in new be. Solaris packages prior to solaris 11 itom practitioner portal. If the patch already exists, and rerun this, will it be any harm 3. I have a local repository, how do i set it to be used for patching solaris 11 endpoints. For information about fields in the fmri, see fault management resource identifiers. The next step in the process is to download the key and certificate for the oracle solaris 11 supported repository. To install or update package in solaris 11 from repo file offline just simple follow these steps. After downloading, you can transfer the metadata and payload information using removable storage to the patch repository within the airgapped environment. 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. Solaris 11 patching updating patch repository part2 duration.
If the files are the same size and the patch just modifies a few bytes, you can use xxd, which is commonly installed with the os. May 19, 2009 solaris 10 patch return codes may 19, 2009 by gleb reys 4 comments 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. I have a patching steps list below please have a check if it help you. Solaris installation automated installer ai is the new network based multiclient provisioning system on oracle solaris 11. The patches for solaris site contains the fixlet content that allows for. Once the system is rebooted, these loopback file system mounts are torn down, revealing the patched objects. Oracle solaris snapshots are based on copy on write, which means that files that arent changed, dont take up any space in the.
Oracle technical paperoracle solaris 10 recommended patching strategy 2 recommended patching strategy for oracle solaris 10 the following is the recommended patching strategy for oracle solaris 10. Ensure oracle solaris 11 support is selected, and then click the submit to go to a screen that allows you to add additional certificate data to distinguish this key and certificate pair, as shown in figure 3. Llt may fail to start after upgrade on solaris 11 3770835. Solaris live upgrade enables system administrators to create and upgrade a boot environment that is initially inactive, without affecting the running system. Since the amount of blog articles covering that is limited i thought it might be a nice challenge. Therefore, the zfs file systems must not be under solaris cluster software control during the shutdown and boot process. Opatch takes long time to complete the patching stuck at. Adding a solaris patch system administration guide. 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. An alternative method of patching solaris 11 endpoints is to use the install packages by using pkg task. 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. For more information, see installing packages on solaris 11. Adding or updating individual packages to add individual software packages, use the pkg install command. Upgrade fails because there is zone installed on the vxfs file system which is offline.
The result may be a large number of temporary loopback file system mounts. Jan 04, 2016 ansible can be used to manage various kinds of server operating systems among them solaris 11. Beginners guide to solaris 11 image packaging system ips the. This task enables you to deploy individual packages or all the packages for an sru. I want to use patching to inactive boot environment method and need urgent assistance.
Solaris zone patching patch management for solaris supports zone patching on solaris 10 endpoints. This week i was doing some testing on ldoms to provide some important information about ldoms to our gurkulindia followers. How to create and update a solaris 11 local repository server. Notes bmc recommends that you set up a small test group of servers and run the patch process on the group. You must subscribe to the patches for solaris 11 site to access the following additions to the product. Most of the solaris administrators will search for solaris 11 os patch. Hi i have a sun m4000 with 1 global and 4 nonglobal zones running solaris. Ibm bigfix patch for solaris provides unified, realtime visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all solaris endpoints from a single console. The configuration file must contain the download settings and patch. The last few days ive been busy patching our solaris boxes, and thats why i had to dig this old trusty table up.
Howto managing solaris 11 via ansible homeliquidat. The logs show the latest result of an action from a fixlet or task. Using solaris live upgrade for patching oracle solaris blog. Solaris patches installation error codes solaris blog. This book describes how to integrate an oracle solaris server message block smb server and smb clients into a windows environment. Click on a recommended patch cluster based on the solaris release running on the system to be patched. Sep 10, 2015 system patching one of the important job responsibility for solaris administrator.