Solaris volume manager svm command line reference cheat sheet. Device id discrepancies after upgrading to the solaris 10 release recovering from. I tried to find what is taking up all this space but du is not returning any big filesdirectories on root. Hello, id like to install the latest patch cluster on my solaris 10 sparc server. Scott lynn put together a very informative blog on solaris 10. Unix my first love oraclesolaris patching using live. Consequently, the patchadd command includes the new g option, which adds a patch only to the global zone. Patch installation instructions for solaris systems sun java.
You should now be able to mount the file system on devdskc1t3d0s7 back to db20. On solaris 10, how do you generally troubleshoot when a system hangs. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. In older versions of solaris 10, the etchosts file was the definitive data store for hostnameip address translation data. Dec 06, 20 below are the steps for lucreate and luupgrade in mirrored svm environment in solaris here i am patching the solaris 10 server with svm mirror setuup envirinment. The solaris 10 recommended patchset really does contain all. I wonder if i could make patching without live upgrade in a following way. Live upgrade solaris with mirrored disks general it.
I have a patching steps list below please have a check if it help you. To view your metadevice configuration and status, use the metastat command. Create the file systemwith the device initializated. Mar 12, 20 the below steps shows ho to create new boot eenvironment,upgrade the solaris to new release,patch the solaris kernel and update the netbackup client.
Patch installation instructions for solaris systems sun. If there are nonglobal zones installed and the zonepath resides on a solaris volume manager metadevice, for example, if the following configuration existed prior to patching. After the root pool has been identified, run the following. For example when i run a command say metastat and hit enter, the system hangs. A list of the solaris volume manager patches that have been installed. Please let me know how to trouble shoot this and which logs i can check with examples. Im trying to find out a way to display the latest patches installed in a solaris box. Use one of the following methods to check mirror or submirror status. 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. Run the metastat command on a mirror to see the state of each submirror, the pass number, the read option, the write option, and the size of the total number of blocks in mirror. Chapter 24 troubleshooting solaris volume manager oracle docs. I am seeking help to add patches to solaris 10 on 64 bit sparc server. It can be used to recreate all the metadevices in one go. Other times, a patch may come in as a jar file indicated by a.
Example, you need to upgrade from oracle solaris 10 update 4 to oracle solaris update 8, so you must get the oracle solaris live upgrade packages from the oracle solaris update 8 dvd. The gnu command stat is bundled with opensolaris and solaris 11 and available on the solaris companion cd with solaris 10. Jun 23, 2015 remember, the recommended patchset covers the solaris os only, so there may be some value in such scanners for ancillary software such as solaris cluster, etc. Command to find out when the patches are installed in. Below are the df and metastat p output before lucreate and patching. Install the bootblock in the root mirror disk c1t1d0, to. To find out more about these so called meta devices, one can use the metastat command. Perform instalation of the patch cluster on disk1 in case of success. Sep 16, 2011 general procedure for kernel patching in solaris. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards.
For solaris 10 patches, use the unzip command to extract the patch files, as follows. We are getting multiple requests for solaris kernel patching procedure from many of your gurkul followers. This astounding option to truss provides a profile summary of the command being trussed. The below steps shows ho to create new boot eenvironment,upgrade the solaris to new release,patch the solaris kernel and update the netbackup client. How to remove a solaris patch while booted from a network or. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. I am trying to present the simple patching procedure when our disks are under solaris volume manager control, svm. 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.
The patchrm command attempts to restore the previously saved files. As seen above, here the root disk is c1t0d0 and the mirror rootdisk is c1t1d0. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. The recommended os patchset solaris 10 sparc provides the minimum set of patches needed to address security and sun alert issues, and selected issues identified by oracle proactive services and the oracle technical support center, for the solaris 10 operating system for sparc. Solaris to aix use this reference to contrast the aix version 4. For sol 9 u4 or with patch 145409, fs size can be up to 16 tb.
I have a solaris 10 box that has root file system usage over 80%. This task is performed the server which is having two zones in it. Let me assure you, the solaris 10 recommended patchset really does contain all available security fixes for the solaris os. Earlier it has global is solaris 10, container is 10. 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. 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. Issue the following command, which displays the list of pools that are available for importing. For this example, you must be booted from at least the solaris 10 10 08 os media. This document is based upon sparc solaris 10 obp all the following commands are to be run from the obp and not the os. This command analyzes which patches are available for this machine. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool. The patchadd command can find out which patches are currently installed on the system. For this example, you must be booted from at least the solaris 10 1008 os media. From the enhanced storage tool within the solaris management console, open the volumes node, choose the mirror, then choose actionproperties.
The system displays detailed information for each metadevice virtual device similar to the following. The file is only used when metainit command is issued by the administrator. May 10, 20 solaris 10 interview questions may 10, 20 by lingeswaran r 8 comments here is the basic solaris interview questions which are commonly asked in solaris l1 or l2 level 1 or l2 interviews. In deference to murphys law, id better insert a disclaimer that im sure therell be a security fix at some future point in time which is toxic and we may hold off including it until we mitigate its toxicity, but i. However, it is a good idea to bring it to single user mode before applying the patch cluster. Solaris 10 volume manager adding slice to metadb unix and. The output of metastat p might show hot spares being used. You can now use the metastat command to verify that the mirrored and contactenated metadevice were removed. For additional disk status information when using disk mirroring, you can run the metastat command. They are only valid on sparc hardware that uses the openboot rmware. The eeprom command can be used from the os to view or set openboot rmware variables. Please list command and specific directory that patches should be added to.
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. Below are the steps for lucreate and luupgrade in mirrored svm environment in solaris here i am patching the solaris 10 server with svm mirror setuup envirinment. Please avoid the steps for zones, if you dont have zone in your server. For example, to check the status of the oneway mirror d70, use. Alternatively, just read the latest available oracle security cpu critical patch update pad product advisory doc. Delete unavailable replicas by using the metadb command. Solaris 10 patches come in zip format, such as 10494502. The following tables contrast the structure of these operating systems. Our machine, salsa, is running solaris 10u2 on an x86 host with root disks mirrored with svm. 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 recommended patchset really does contain. You can also go through the below interface questions on specific category.
How to remove a solaris patch while booted from a network. In this example, one submirror, d10, is using c0t1d0s4. 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. Disk partition information, from the prtvtoc command sparc systems or the fdisk command iabased systems solaris version. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. How to kill user session through database and unix. Command to find out when the patches are installed in solaris.
Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware. 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. Im not that familiar with it, but metastat output gives needs maintenance message on 2 of the mirrors. The solaris 10 operating system introduced the new concept of zones. The patches contained in this patchset are considered the most. Here is the basic solaris interview questions which are commonly asked in solaris l1 or l2 level 1 or l2 interviews. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. You can use the lumount command to take a look around the. On your solaris server, a disk that is part of a mirror goes bad and needs replacement. The patchadd command creates a backup of the files being patched. All the following commands are to be run from the obp and not the os. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. It is unwise to use the output of the metastat p command to create a md. This is to prepare the server for the installation of oracle 10g.
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. I got the following output from the command you asked to run. However, gnu stat isnt fully aware of solaris file system capabilities so i would suggest to use ls instead to get file information. 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. How to check the status of mirrors and submirrors solaris. Tasks are grouped according to major categories that are listed below. I have used showrev p command which will only give the installed revisions of the patches, but not the date of its installation.
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