Before applying patches, you might want to know more about patches that have been previously applied. As far as i know patches were never made available for that. Svm failed disk replacement on solaris svm failed disk replacement on solaris. I have to install some latest patches on my sparc machine running solaris 10. But i felt this post will be helpful for solaris administrators to find the latest os patch bundles from oracle. How can i determine the last time a solaris machine was patched. In this example, one submirror, d10, is using c0t1d0s4. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. 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. Scott lynn put together a very informative blog on solaris 10 extended support detailing the benefits that customers can get by. Clear the metadatabase replicas from the root mirror disk. Patch installation on solaris10 unix and linux forums.
Check the health of all metadatabase replicas metadbs and svm metadevices. Our machine, salsa, is running solaris 10u2 on an x86 host with root disks mirrored with svm. From solaris 10 x86 u1 version, the installboot command is obselete. I am not happy to post nontechnical posts on unixarena. Using the luactivate command to activate the new boot environment or fallback to the original boot environment. Then use the c option to the metadb command on the twelfth disk to give an example of how to create two replicas on a single slice.
If you do, you dont need any of the metadb metainit solaris volume manager stuff. This procedure applies only to solaris 10 servers that have no zones or boot environments configured. Solaris 10 branded zone kernel patching procedure this blog explains the steps to create a new boot environment in a oracle solaris 10 branded zone on oracle solaris 11. I am seeking help to add patches to solaris 10 on 64 bit sparc server.
So, use the installgrub command, to make the second disk. Now i need to know how to check latest kernel version in solaris 10 container. General guidelines for troubleshooting solaris volume manager. This figure describes the commands for the solaris live upgrade process. I am trying to present the simple patching procedure when our disks are under solaris volume manager control, svm. Installing the required oracle solaris 10 patches oracle. The post describes the meaning of the fields displayed in the metadb i command. Chapter 24 troubleshooting solaris volume manager solaris. For example, creating a new volume is a configuration change, while a submirror failure is a state change. Which command can analyze the patch requirements of a system and.
We are getting multiple requests for solaris kernel patching procedure from many of your gurkul followers. How to replace failed root disk under oracle solaris svm. This document describes the installation and configuration of solaris 10 hosts at ecn. Remove hard drive from the tree in the sequence incase the scsisas disk.
There was problem of missing bootblk on the system. Ten ways to easily improve oracle solaris zfs file. Some applications require a specific set of patches in order to function properly. Live upgrade solaris with mirrored disks general it. Check the outputs by metastat ac, metastat p, metastat t and metadb i.
Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. So i had to repartition but i didnt want to reinstall. The output of the pkginfo, showrev and uname commands is used to gather information. A list of the solaris volume manager patches that have been installed. Always change the value of autoboot to false using eeprom command when ever you. Upgrading to solaris 10 engineering computer network. Unless you transition to oracle solaris 10 extended support, you will not be able. To list the applied patches or to dertermine the presence of a specific patch, use the showrev command. Command to find out when the patches are installed in solaris machine. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster this article describes the process of applying a solaris recommended patch cluster, or patchset as it is now called. 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. I wonder if i could make patching without live upgrade in a following way. Registering solaris 10 and updating patches from the.
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. Then create seven more replicas just using the a option to the metadb command. Check metadb and remove db replicas which related to failed disk. 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. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. Delete unavailable replicas by using the metadb command. How to display information about solaris patches system. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware. As seen above, here the root disk is c1t0d0 and the mirror rootdisk is c1t1d0. 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. The metadb command creates and deletes replicas of the metadevice state database.
Svm software provides mechanisms to configure physical slices of harddrive into logical volumes. Pca analyze, download and install patches for oracle solaris. This is to prepare the server for the installation of oracle 10g. Solaris 10 initial installation ars technica openforum. Oracle white paperhow to upgrade and patch with oracle solaris live upgrade. Installing updates on solaris 10 from the command line. After quite successful evaluation of running mysql on solaris 10 we decided to move all our. The solaris volume manager svm is a free component of solaris 9 and solaris 10.
It is ideal to create 3 of them on each disk in case you are mirroring the root disk. Mount the mirror root disk and replace the svm related entries in the etcvfstab and etcsystem to prevent svm to. Device id discrepancies after upgrading to the solaris 10 release recovering from. How can i determine the last time a solaris machine was. By default, if run without any option or operand, pca shows a list of all patches which are not installed in. To list all patches applied to the system, run the following. When i enter below command to create meta db getting the following. After registering your solaris system you might want to install updates from the command line. Applying patches to the new boot environment with the luupgrade command. The solaris volume manager software automatically updates the state database when a configuration or state change occurs. Pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. Hello, id like to install the latest patch cluster on my solaris 10 sparc server.
Command to find out when the patches are installed in. See patch identification numbers and descriptions for oracle solaris 10 platforms for more. Which command displays the last five times the solaris 10 operating system was rebooted. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Solaris 10 container deployed from solaris 10 global zone to solaris 11 global zone. Please list command and specific directory that patches should. I need to check latest kernel version in solaris 10 container. Hello friends, i need to test some of the solaris 10 concepts and veritas volume manager.
You should have the following information on hand when you troubleshoot solaris volume manager problems. 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. Run the lucreate command to create a copy of the active boot environment. See patch identification numbers and descriptions for oracle solaris 10 platforms. Perform instalation of the patch cluster on disk1 in case of success. Solaris zfs command line reference cheat sheet solaris 11. I am new to solaris and having problem with svm to create mirroring on m4000 server with solaris 10. The solaris 10 cpus critical patch updates on mos are archived copies of the solaris 10 recommended patchsets taken on the cpu date. So if one of these contains 15040015, use can use that. I always liked unix for its tradition of simple commands which can be used in. 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. Download pca for system registered with oracle csi. Creating a new boot environment with the lucreate command.
Getting solaris 10 patches with smpatch, pca and oracle. The example system we will be using has svm based mirrored root. Show applied patches or check for a specific patch in solaris. Shows all patches that have been applied to the system. But the recommendation is always to use the latest solaris 10 recommended patchset. Solaris 10 106, so you must get the oracle solaris live upgrade packages from the oracle solaris 10. Several operating system patches are required for the proper operation of the compilers and tools in the oracle developer studio 12. Solaris 10 mirror repartition solaris specialists blog. I highly recommend upgrading to a current release, either solaris 10 update 9 or solaris 11 express. 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. The etcsystem file is automatically updated with the new information and the etclvm file is updated. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos.
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