The solaris patch manager tool provides all the necessary features in one application. Theyve launched a blog, which contains the initial introductory videos. This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. In 2003, an addition to the solaris development process was initiated.
How to use solaris live upgrade to install patches oracle. Having installed oracle 10g and various other releases as a part of project implementationsupgrade on various environments thought itd be a good idea to spread the knowledge. Step by step installation of solaris 10 on vmware server. The system loads the enduser distribution group and sets up minimal swap space. Use the patchadd command to add patches to servers or standalone systems. Resource controls are new for solaris 10 and 11 and are replacing the use of some kernel values.
Lets follow the below steps to complete your installation of solaris on vmware workstation 12. 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. This article describes the process of applying a solaris recommended patch cluster, or patchset as it is now called. No data is ever deleted, and to roll back to solaris 9, all you need is one command and a reboot. As a first step, download the recommended patch cluster from the my oracle support mos site. No such zone configured use create to begin configuring a new zone.
The trick is finding out the correct syntax for each vendors operating system. Solaris os and veritas patching procedure with vcs unixarena. Find answers to method of procedures for solaris 10 patch install from the expert community at experts exchange. In this twopart video sam, the solaris 10 system administrator, is introduced to the solaris 10 patching best practices by the mysterious patch man. Heres how to leverage liveupgrade to safely upgrade from solaris 9 to solaris 10 using a spare disk. The installation is complete, solaris 10 fresh install is ready to be used. Finally you might want to configure internet to your solaris 10 vm, to do this do the following. For the love of physics walter lewin may 16, 2011 duration.
The resource controls are set in the etcsystem project file for solaris 10 and 11. 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. As virtual box and solaris are provided by oracle, the solaris vb image has already been optimized for the latest version of virtual box. This product was built on solaris 10 using the following compilers from oracle solaris studio 12.
Hi, i have solaris 10 sparc server with two nonglobal zoneone is whole zone and the other is sparse zone. Patching procedure in solaris 10 with sun cluster having. Here youll find all solaris patching related resources including best practice guidelines, training, articles, patch news. We are in the process of moving from sunsolaris to ibmaix.
Solaris is a proprietary unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. Make sure this jumpstart configuration is suited to your environment. 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. Open the home page of your vmware workstation and choose the solaris 10 vm that you have created by following our previous article and click to the power on button as shown below. The following steps outline the procedure for applying patches to the solaris 10 os. The solaris os has a long history of innovation, and the solaris 10 os is a watershed release that includes features such as. The best way of updating your patching is apply a sun supplied recommended patch cluster, there are instructions here. Note this procedure provides commands for the solaris 10 807 release. Here we are going to see traditional os patching where your root filesystem is ufs. The example system we will be using has svm based mirrored root. Gerry haskins director security and release management.
I am trying to present the simple patching procedure when our disks are under solaris volume manager control, svm. Solaris 10 patching issue i have a t5220 server and the patch level is. Imho it seems that not having a straightforward way to get a comprehensive list of installed software is a glaring omission in system administration functionality. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Solaris 10 includes suns java desktop system jds, which is based on. Note that each solaris release consists of a single source base. I will upgrade the kernel patch through bundle patching using solaris live upgrade.
Sun learning services are in the process of creating a number of patch related training lessons. 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. 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. Liveupgrade from solaris 9 to solaris 10 sysadmins journey. Installing solaris 10 step by step tech support says. A common root cause of such a problem is an issue while mounting file systems due to some file system corruption. The first step in installing solaris 9 it to boot the machine from disk 1 of the solaris 9 software cds. Oracle solaris 10 zones stepbystep guide tech support says. 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. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgradingpatching solaris.
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. With oracle solaris 10 807, and subsequent releases, patching oracle. 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. 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. This procedure applies only to solaris 10 servers that have no zones or boot environments configured. You can do this by shutting the system down using init 0. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Below is comprehensive overviewthought process about steps taken. 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. 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. If you are a solaris administrator looking for a stepbystep guide to. As a first step, download oracle 10gr2 and oracle solaris, create a virtual machine using my previous instruction, but dont forget to select solaris 10 on operating system types. 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 want install oracle 11g on solaris 10 but i dont unzip database file. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. New solaris 11 patch and package installation methods. How to apply os kernel patch on solaris 10 server which. How to install solaris 1011 on vmware workstation 12. The other approach, which uses oracle solaris live upgrade, enables you to upgrade while. Hi all, im looking for some helpadvice on patching aix. I was trying to upgrade to the latest patch level, but in single user mode while updating patch cluster i get. Solaris live upgrade greatly simplifies the upgrade and patching process. If you wish to install solaris 10 on vmware heres the link. Onsnmp the snmp agent for onsnmp is based on snmp research snmpr. Patching a live solaris 10 system with lu, zfs, and pca. While this talk will be looking primarily at the solaris operating system, the 10 basic steps well be covering can be applied to any unixlike operating system.
Step by step oracle 10g r2 installation on solaris 10. Altmetrics data is provided by, a research metrics company who. 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. The kernel values are set in the etcsystem file for solaris 8 or 9 or etcproject file for solaris 10 and 11. Free solaris 10 patching best practices training cols tech. Take an instance, there are sol1 and sol2 nodes and having two failover zones like sozone1rg and. Best practices for oracle solaris 10 in the datacenter. I need some one to explain this steps as i am new to this. The upgrade methods for solaris 8, solaris 9, and oracle solaris 10 are. We are getting multiple requests for solaris kernel patching procedure from many of your gurkul followers. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem.
Solaris os and veritas patching procedure with vcs july 4, 2012 by lingeswaran r leave a comment we have seen many post about solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade method. Edit virtual machine select cdrom click radio button use iso image give the location of the solaris 10 downloaded iso image. Oracle solaris installation program provides an interactive upgrade with a graphical user interface or commandline interface. Step by step installing oracle 11g r2 on oracle solaris 10.
In that case configuring a whole root zone is the way to go. Source solaris 10 iso image to be read on boot up, this can be done by clicking. 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. I have very little experience with method of procedures. For each system resource, metrics for utilization, saturation and errors are identified and checked. The first step in establishing a new patch management and software update. The use method provides a strategy for performing a complete check of system health, identifying common bottlenecks and errors. If not already created, create file etcdefaultrouter and enter your routers ip address. This tool is included in solaris 10 and is able to analyze systems, download and install patches. Installation of solaris 10 on virtual box something. Any one of the cli tools mentioned for solaris will provide an easy process to automate patch management. How to upgrade and patch with oracle solaris live upgrade.
Adding a solaris patch system administration guide. Download the dvdfrom oracle website and install on virtual box. Then click ok from the above we have configured the vm to install solaris 10. Kindly help me in step by step procedure for the same including rollback plan. Try stopping vxesd, removing the disks with vxdisk rm and removing the dmp devices, then try the powermt remove again.
Solaris patch cluster install on how to do that, it is best to have the system running in single user mode run reboot s if system is running or just boot s if at the open boot prompt, you do not need to break the mirrors for patching unless you want a quick way of. Training for solaris 10 patching oracle solaris blog. The steps for creating and configuring a new whole root local zone are as follows. This paper howto describes stepbystep installation of oracle 11g release 2 11. Live upgrade upgrades a system by creating and upgrading a copy of the running system. As a result, the developers are working on a cumulative set of all previous changes. Sun patch check and patchdiag can be used to find patches. I thought it was about time i took another look, since.
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