Solaris patching issue with live upgrade i am in process of applying solaris recommended patch cluster via live upgrade. I recently faced a curious problem when trying to patch an alternate boot environment created with live upgrade on solaris 10. For information about fields in the fmri, see fault management resource identifiers. The zones parallel patching feature was officially released on tuesday and is contained in the latest solaris 10 patch utilities patch, 11925466 sparc and 11925566 x86. The patch installation on mrzorg took about 2 hrs and 15 minutes. Sep 20, 2014 solaris 11 os patching with svm in this article we are going to discussing about installing solaris os patch bundle with svm solaris volume manager control root disk. Published on the otn garage the official blog of the system admin and developer community of otn with links to tales from the datacenter by erik benner, enterprise architect, mythics inc. Sun patch check and patchdiag can be used to find patches to install, but installation would have to be done manually.
Jun 19, 2009 the zones parallel patching feature was officially released on tuesday and is contained in the latest solaris 10 patch utilities patch, 11925466 sparc and 11925566 x86. Patch for profiling libraries and assembler vendor name. A necessary procedure for system administrators is when and how to update the production environment in use at a company. Use the following steps to install the scriptbased solution for the management of solaris 11 patches. Sep 16, 2011 general procedure for kernel patching in solaris.
The goal of this topic is to demonstrate how to perform patch analysis and remediation for oracle solaris 11 systems using truesight server. The example system we will be using has svm based mirrored root. Covers how to launch the solaris vm, how to assign it memory, how to create a virtual drive and configure it as a dynamic allocated drive to save space, how to install the oracle solaris 11. We have traditional and live upgrade patching methods in solaris 10. Zones parallel patching is an enhancement to the standard patch utilities, which comprise the supported method for patching nonglobal zones on your oracle solaris 10 system. Ive seen this hang in the past with earlier 64 bit kernels, for a moment i thought parallels didnt support 64 bit guest but looking it appears they do. Solaris 11 os patching with svm solaris unix and linux. The following command shows that oracle solaris 11. Vulnerability in the solaris component of oracle sun systems products suite subcomponent. Solaris 10 patching issue i have a t5220 server and the patch level is. A hole is a place where a file has nothing, so the file doesnt have anything, but the file size is larger than the space on disk.
From solaris 10 1009 onward you have got an option to patch multiple zones in parallel. These can be used as a guideline for the boxes you will patch. A simple solaris live upgrade procedure involves below 4 steps. The zones parallel patching feature is now available in the latest solaris 10 patch utilities patch, 11925466 sparc and 11925566 x86. In solaris 11, oracle removed the word called patches from their dictionary. I was trying to upgrade to the latest patch level, but in single user mode while updating patch cluster i get. Simply install this patch, set the maximum number of nonglobal zones to be patched in parallel in the config file etcpatchnf, and away you go.
Parallel patching in solaris 10 when you patch a solaris 10 server it applies each patch to each zone oneatatime. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. 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. Synopsis the remote solaris system is missing a security patch from cpu apr2017. I have the task of patching six ldoms and two control domains. Now i need to know how to check latest kernel version in solaris 10 container. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgrading patching solaris. Solaris 11 patching updating patch repository part2 duration. Performing solaris 11 patch analysis documentation. A patched version of the current release, rpatched, and the current. Ensure you take the system down to single user mode, before you start the patching. Show all versions show obsolete packages show renamed packages. Description this solaris system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates.
It means it got released in november 2011 by oracle. Jun 19, 2009 zones parallel patching is an enhancement to the standard solaris 10 patch utilities and is delivered in the patch utilities patch, 11925466 sparc and 11925566 x86. Preparation before you can do live patching, you need an extra boot disk. Applying patches to the new boot environment or upgrading the os version in new be. The following procedures were used on mrzorg to install the nov 28 solaris patch cluster. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and. It can be the only tool you ever need for patch management, be it on a single machine or a complete network. Oracle solaris 11 administration command cheat sheet. The parallel update provides a significant improvement in the time required to update all the zones on a system. Chris reece has implemented thread support into pca for parallel patch downloads.
This is solaris 11, or may be solaris 11 express, or may be open. It resolves dependencies between patches and installs them in correct order. I need to check latest kernel version in solaris 10 container. This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. The book covers the topics oracle solaris resource management, zones also. Contact us the unix and linux forums unix commands, linux commands. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgradingpatching solaris. Opatch takes long time to complete the patching stuck at oui67117 backing up files on solaris.
A parallel make can be used but run make before make install. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. Applying a patch to an oracle solaris system with zones installed. Hi, i am just going through this pain as well, although slightly more involved, in that im upgrading the ldom from 1. Solaris 11 install hangs on parallels 7 parallels forums.
Synopsis the remote solaris system is missing a security patch from cpu apr2016. If the server owner or applicationdb teams is requesting you to patch the solaris 11, you have to update the system using pkg commands. This operation is much easier than solaris 10 os patch bundle installation. Once the patching is completed, you need to reboot to load the latest kernel version. This article is going to explain that how to update the solaris 11. Libraries dependencies 0 the following tables display the sub list of packages, from the reverse dependencies, that depends on the libs provided by parallel. Solaris patches installation error codes solaris blog. So if you have 3 zones and it takes 1 minute to apply a patch on global zone then it will take another 1 minute each to apply on other 3 zones. Solaris 10 container deployed from solaris 10 global zone to solaris 11 global zone. This patch installation utility cannot be used to apply solaris 1 patches. Recently, i used the live upgrade tools in the solaris os to successfully apply the latest patch cluster to a machine running the solaris 9 os, without bringing the machine into singleuser mode. This feature improves zones patching performance by patching nonglobal zones in parallel. Solaris installation automated installer ai is the new network based multiclient provisioning system on oracle solaris 11. Beginners guide to oracle solaris live upgrade the geek.
Although i initially though it was a lu problem, the solution is finally related to the patches to be applied and the way a solaris is installed. The zones parallel patching feature was officially released on tuesday and is contained. In other words, oracle patched the remote root hole now dubbed cve20173623 back in january 2012 for solaris 10, and solaris 11 is not. Once the patching is completed, you need to reboot to load the. Say your file is 100 bytes long, but each of those bytes is null as in binary 0s shouldnt it take 100 bytes of. 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. Check latest patch on my oracle support website parallel patching is really helpful. The flash archive took about 40 minutes mrzorg is only using about 3g for the root system. The solaris patch manager tool provides all the necessary features in one application. 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.
Reverse dependencies are solaris packages that depends on parallel. The remote solaris system is missing a security patch from cpu apr2017. The option to download patches from sun directly was probably one of the. Installing the scriptbased patching solution for solaris 11. Solaris zones parallel patching lildude solariszonesparallelpatching 20090619t17. In all, 12x 1tb 7200 sata disks, 12x 300gb 10k sas disks in separate zpools. How to install, build, test, and control nginx on solaris 11. Live patching for the solaris 9 operating system experts. Solaris 11 nonglobal zone patching glynn fosteroracle mar 3, 2016 12. Simply install this patch, set the maximum number of nonglobal zones to be patched in parallel in the config file etc patch nf, and away you go. 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. 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.
If youre running a fair few nonglobal zones on solaris 10, youll know full well how. I am trying to present the simple patching procedure when our disks are under solaris volume manager control, svm. How do i make sure i have all the patchesupdates i should have. Beginners guide to oracle solaris live upgrade the geek diary. The updatepatch processes doesnt work on the actual boot environment. For releases prior to solaris 10 1009, this feature is delivered in the patch utilities patch, 11925466 or later revision sparc and 11925566 or later revision x86.
Zones parallel patching is an enhancement to the standard solaris 10 patch utilities and is delivered in the patch utilities patch, 11925466 sparc and 11925566 x86. Solaris 11 os patching with svm in this article we are going to discussing about installing solaris os patch bundle with svm solaris volume manager control root disk. You can also get a patch for suns patch, to better support some ati cards, from. An alternative method of patching solaris 11 endpoints is to use the install packages by using pkg task. There are two type of repositories are available in oracle to update solaris 11 operating system. 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. This task enables you to deploy individual packages or all the packages for an sru. As pca is not needed anymore on solaris 11, it is now being used mostly by. Any one of the cli tools mentioned for solaris will provide an easy process to automate patch management. My suggestion is patch global zone and zone in parallel on the same time this will be the major steps to patch both zones and global 1. One or more solaris patch fixlets available in the patches for solaris site. Customized solaris installation and patching experience.
This is command used for installing recommended cluster, the most. For more information, see installing packages on solaris 11. Though i have enough space in root filesystem of both zones, everytime i run installcluster, it fails with complaining less space but in alternate be. Im trying to run a number of jobs using the parallel command in solaris 11 with the following command. I ran a nassan box on solaris 11 express before solaris 11 was released. Aug 23, 2017 parallel patching in solaris 10 when you patch a solaris 10 server it applies each patch to each zone oneat a time.
Note oracle solaris 10 305 through oracle solaris 10 1106. The version to build professional, long lasting software against. Solaris live upgrade enables system administrators to create and upgrade a boot environment that is initially inactive, without affecting the running system. Delete the untared directory, and remirror if u need to. Disable everything you wont be using, like parallel ports, etc. We are getting multiple requests for solaris kernel patching procedure from many of your gurkul followers. Patch check advanced pca generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads patches. Opatch takes long time to complete the patching stuck at.