The below script will help you to find what process is occupying the specific port on solaris servers and this script will be very useful on solaris zones. Unable to login into nonglobal zones ngz after patching posted on march 17, 2015 by sandeep shenoy yesterday i faced an issue, where in i was unable to login into ngzs after kernel patching. Zfs patching with zones using lu liveupgrade in solaris. But pressure to release more significant cool feature enhancements such as zfs, containers zones, newboot grub, ldoms hardware vitualization for sparc, etc. 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. Yes, can be applied to multiple zones in parallel no patching pkg. This article describes the process of applying a solaris recommended patch cluster, or patchset as it is now called. Single user mode doesnt really work for patching solaris 10 with zones. Hence any solaris 10 system can utilize the latest zones and zfs functionality by.
Oracle solaris patch update oracle content marketing. This feature improves zones patching performance by patching nonglobal zones in parallel. Note that each solaris release consists of a single source base. Solaris 10 zones and networking common considerations. 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. Zones are widely used in production environments as it is easy to setup. Hi, what are the best tools both sun and third party for patch management automation for a company using solaris 10 with zones. With a brand new zone, you will go through the typical sysidcfg interactions language, locale, terminal, hostname,kerberos, name service,timezone, and password settings that you would normally do with a new solaris install. Consequently, the patchadd command includes the new g option, which adds a patch only to the global zone. This guide uses the term nonglobal zone to refer to a local zone. Update 11 for solaris 10 is probably last release of solaris 10 and has some new features, which are not available if you only patching a system with recommended patches. The oracle solaris 10 patch utility patches are 119254% sparc and 119255% x86x64.
Zones parallel patching is an enhancement to the standard solaris 10 patch utilities, which comprise the supported method for patching nonglobal zones on. For patch operations initiated from within oracle solaris 10 zones, if the remote system is another solaris10 zone, the patching operation works correctly. Move the zip file to server under vartmp using sftp tool like winscp, file zilla etc. Install or upgrade to the latest oracle solaris 10 update release during your next major maintenance window. Prohibited privilegesdefault privileges which are assigned to every zone during the installation example. May 19, 2009 in fact this is indeed the case with solaris 10s new patching mechanism that was introduced when zones were introduced. How to get to solaris 10 patches post premier support tales. Global zone is the traditional os environment and is where solaris os is installed. The patches for solaris site contains the fixlet content that allows for global and nonglobal whole root zones patching. Problems patching solaris 10 system with zones oracle. Here the global zone is part of veritas cluster and couple of zones are controlled by vcs and one zone is noncluster.
First introduced in oracle solaris 10, zones are builtin, lightweight virtual. At the company i work for, we have recently migrated several solaris 10 global zones to solaris 10 nonglobal zones hosted on a solaris 11 global zone. 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. Cause analysis of the issue is likely to compound the problem e. Im more or less familiar with zic on freebsd, and i know where to obtain the latest timezone data. The solaris 10 operating system introduced the new concept of zones. 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. In my case i have solaris 10 production server, with 3 non global zones. 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. Applying a patch to a solaris system with zones installed. Patching using fixlets you can apply solaris patches to your deployment by using the fixlets on the available solaris sites. Apr 19, 2017 in other words, oracle patched the remote root hole now dubbed cve20173623 back in january 2012 for solaris 10, and solaris 11 is not affected.
How to create and configure solaris 10 zones the geek diary. Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology. Solaris 10 0508 update 5 patch bundle oracle solaris blog. Such patches set the safemode parameter in their pkginfo file or files.
If you are able to regularly patch your systems, then apply the recommended patch cluster, which one can download if one has an oracle technology network login gratis which is tied to a valid support contract non gratis. As you know there is no direct method to upgrade the solaris 10 to solaris 11, most of the clients would like to run their existing solaris 10 zones as branded zone under solaris 11 without upgrading the guest operating system for time being. Installing packagespatches applications in zones by ramdev published april 14, 2011 updated july 2, 2015 in the global zone view the smcsudo and smctop packages. Zones parallel patching is an enhancement to the standard solaris 10 patch utilities, which comprise the supported method for patching nonglobal zones on your solaris 10 system.
Once patches 11925452 or later and 12266010, along with their required patches have been installed, all other patches can then be installed as nonglobal zones in halted state. Solaris zone patching patch management for solaris supports zone patching on solaris 10 endpoints. The zones update on attach feature and patching in the solaris 10 os. Another exception is branded zones which never get packages or patches from the global zone. If you are using live upgrade to upgrade a system from the solaris 8 or solaris 9 os to the oracle solaris 10 os, you must first activate the oracle solaris 10 boot environment before patching. For solaris 10 the first patch 12203201 has been obsoleted by its next. Oracle solaris 10 support explained oracle solaris blog. I needed to rename a zone on a solaris 10 system earlier this week and here are some notes on how i did it.
About performing package and patch operations remotely. However, solaris9 zones are different from native whole root zones in that central patching is not applied. 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. Solaris 10 patching using live upgrade with vxvm hello, i was assigned some solaris machines and need to patch them to n1, where n is the latest os realease. This procedure applies only to solaris 10 servers that have no zones or boot environments configured. The only reliable exit codes are 0 and 0 see the patchadd1m man page and youll find the exit codes very rarely actually match this list unless you use the t option to patchadd. I wonder if i could make patching without live upgrade in a following way. We are getting multiple requests for solaris kernel patching procedure from many of your gurkul followers. Solaris zone of solaris 10 operating system function fujitsu global. About using packaging and patching in solaris10 branded zones. Whenever we install solaris zones, solaris will assign some set of privileges to take care of activities that impacts overall systems that means that particular zone as well as other zones. 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.
Zones are application containers that is maintained by the running operating system. Im going to attempt to answer all your questions here. System administrators can patch a system image rapidly without impacting the boot. However, if the remote system is a miniroot or an oracle solaris 10 system that is not a solaris10 zone, the operation will produce undefined results. Download the patches from mos to your windows system. The global zone is the default zone and it always exists even when no other zones are. Solaris 11 zones offer the best of solaris 10 wholeroot zones and sparseroot zones, and offer an array of new features that make zones even more flexible and powerful. I am trying to present the simple patching procedure when our disks are under solaris volume manager control, svm. Problems patching solaris 10 system with zones 807567 may 16, 2007 4. Each environment has separate process space, resource allocation and users. This document is based on the first customer release of solaris 10. Solaris 11 virtualization using zones the urban penguin. For the love of physics walter lewin may 16, 2011 duration.
Let us create a new zone with a minimal resources and settings required to get it up and running. Solaris 11 nonglobal zone patching oracle community. The patching requires that the zones be bootable, and they are not bootable because of service dependencies when in single user. I no longer maintain this content, and moved it to a wiki so that others can. Jan 24, 2015 traditionally we will use lsof command to determine what process is using the particular port. 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. Hello, id like to install the latest patch cluster on my solaris 10 sparc server. Patch management for solaris supports zone patching on solaris 10 endpoints. 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. We have seen many post about solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade method. Supports solaris 8 branded zones and solaris 9 branded zones but does require purchasing an additional license. And when we are doing it online, it involves much more than just running patchadd commands. The fix for this issue is included in solaris 10 kernel level 15040003 or later.
And solaris classifies the available privileges as 1. Current objectives for automation are to eliminate the current manual processes and to reduce planned and unplanned downtime. Comparing solaris 11 zones to solaris 10 zones oracle. Comparing solaris 11 zones to solaris 10 zones oracle jeff. The example system we will be using has svm based mirrored root. How to migrate solaris 10 zones to solaris 11 as branded. Jun 06, 2018 how to get to solaris 10 patches post premier support posted on june 6, 2018 by admin 2 comments v solaris 10 was originally launched in january 2005, and over its lifespan has introduced a ton of ground breaking features, like the zfs volume managerfilesystem, dtrace, zones, service management facility, trusted extensions and more.
You must be the global administrator in the global zone to perform this procedure. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. In this case i would like to know while applying any patches on solaris 1. The brand described here is the solaris10 brand, oracle solaris 10 zones. If running a release prior to solaris 10 10 09, download patch 11925466 or later revision sparc or 11925566 or later revision x86. Solaris 11 nonglobal zone patching glynn fosteroracle mar 3, 2016 12. The oracle solaris 10 container brand is available in opensolaris build 127. In this patchadd q a example,q instructs patchadd to run in quiet mode and also output headings for the installable patches, which are called approved patches. 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. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris.
I need some one to explain this steps as i am new to this. This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. Zones parallel patching 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. Patching source code to build a solaris 10 package youtube. Branded zones these are solaris 8 or solaris 9 zones on the solaris 10 global zones. For proper operation, note that you must install patches 11925475 sparc or 11925575 x86x64, or later versions, on your oracle solaris 10 system before the archive is created. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool. This is how solaris 7, solaris 8, and solaris 9 update releases worked. The following are a few examples for the configuration of solaris 10 zones. Which solaris 10 release is installed on the target system and what patch level the system is at. Oracle technical paper oracle solaris 10 recommended patching strategy 3 apply updates for thirdparty and homegrown software and hardware. Deferred activation patching utilizes loopback mounts lofs to mask the patched objects until a reboot is performed. Patching solaris 10 nonglobal zones oracle community.
About using packaging and patching in solaris10 branded. Oracle solaris 10 and 11 zones are supported with no addition licensing requirements. Is it possible to identify a solaris 10 patch cluster from. Take an instance, there are sol1 and sol2 nodes and having two failover zones like sozone1rg and sozone2rg and currently.
Solaris os and veritas patching procedure with vcs unixarena. If youre running a fair few nonglobal zones on solaris 10, youll know full well how painfully slow the patching process is. For patch operations initiated from within oracle solaris 10 zones, if the remotesystem is another solaris10zone, the patching operation works correctly. Jul 05, 2007 this article explains how airlock uses solaris 10 zones for more security, and their implications on network configuration one of the major changes from airlock 3. Analyzing a patchadd or patchrm failure in the solaris os. Added notes regarding solaris 11 support and branded zones. Dec 18, 2012 packaging a piece of software that wont build out of the box on solaris 10. I have a doubts on step 8 specially can someone clear my step 8 doubts or if anything wrong between step 1 to step 9 please correct that also as i have pretty good idea about step 10 mean patching in solaris 10. Introduction to oracle solaris 10 zones oracle solaris. Before starting with upgrade it is good to check and fix any issues with current system and environment. Solaris 10 with timezone patch 12203201 or later and libc patch 11968907 or later. All nonglobal zones need to be booted to single user mode first. Using the solaris download cacher use the solaris download cacher utility to precache solaris updates to the bigfix server or to a specified target directory before deploying the fixlets to targeted endpoints. I am planning to do solaris 11 global zone patching having solaris 10 branded zone.
We are trying to figure out a way around it and hope to have something soon. Patching solaris 10 on servers with nonglobal zones. Workloads running within these solaris10 branded zones can take advantage of the enhancements made to the oracle solaris kernel and utilize some of the innovative technologies available only on the oracle solaris 11 release, such as virtual nics vnics and zfs deduplication. With oracle solaris 10 premier support ending on january 31, 2018, weve been getting questions about the different support options for oracle solaris 10 going forward.
In solaris 11, oracle removed the word called patches from their dictionary. About using packaging and patching in solaris10 branded zones the svr4 package metadata is available inside the zone, and the package and patch commands work correctly. How to remove a solaris patch while booted from a network or cdrom. Thus in total you will be spending around 4 minutes to apply single patch on the. Network global zones solaris 10 8 config recommendations i have a few nongloba zones running in a 10. Which ones are the most widely used the most recommended.
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. If you are patching a package that was added by using the. If you are planning to move the solaris 10 zones to solaris 11 global zones, this step by step procedure will help you. 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. How can i determine the last time a solaris machine was patched. To determine how long a solaris 10 system has been without patching, i remotely check the following from a linux system, because gnu date is handy. As a result, the developers are working on a cumulative set of all previous changes. While this method of applying patches using just patchadd as opposed to using solaris live upgrade has the major disadvantage of requiring you to patch the live system, which increases both downtime and risk, by using thea. Details heat patch agent for linuxunixmac on solaris 10 information solaris zoning is the practice of installing solaris on a server, and then installing additional instances of solaris within the base installation of solaris.
Jun 12, 20 solaris 11 zones are slightly different from solaris 10 zones. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. If a nonglobal zone is on the same datalink and subnet as the global zone, default routes configured for one zone will apply for all other zones on that datalink and ip subnet. Sep 10, 2015 published on sep 10, 2015 system patching one of the important job responsibility for solaris administrator. Solaris 10 zones are part of the base offering and fully supported as a part of oracles premier support for operating systems.
As a first step, download the recommended patch cluster from the my oracle support mos site. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. This article is going to explain that how to update the solaris 11. Which should be patched first to avoid any crash in case, first local zones followed by global solaris 10 or vice versa.
Svr4 packaging and patching in oracle solaris 10 zones. Jul 04, 2012 we have seen many post about solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade method. 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. Here we are going to see traditional os patching where your root filesystem is ufs.
Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgrading patching solaris. Perform instalation of the patch cluster on disk1 in case of success. However, if theremote system is a miniroot or an oracle solaris 10 system that isnot a solaris10zone, the operation will produce undefined results. After the oracle solaris 10 boot environment is activated, you can either patch the active boot environment directly or set up another inactive boot environment and patch that one by using live upgrade. Patch installation instructions for solaris systems sun java. How to split a root mirrored with solaris volume manager prior to updating software. As of solaris 10 10 09, when a zone stops, the default route is not deleted. What is the best method to run patch for live systesms. My goal is to allow each of the nonglobal zones to communicate to each other while not communicating on the 192.
Deferred activation patching was introduced in the solaris 10 0807 release to ensure system consistency during patching of an active boot environment. By default, the solaris10 brand will have only one boot environment. About oracle solaris 9 branded zones system administration. The former can achieve the goals of the latter, and they also offer features not found in solaris 10 zones. Whether zones are installed on the system and which type of zone. There is nothing in solaris 10 and earlier patches to identify the date, and this is on purpose. I have few queries in case of patch implementation in solaris 10 os with zone environment. We are at the start of our next round of patching and have come across a small issue with solaris 10. This document provides detailed information of the solaris 10 patching procedure using live upgrade. Maybe i do not understand what you have writen, but as far as i know the gz and ngz must have the same patch level on solaris 10.
The higher the solaris 10 update release or patch level, the quicker the patch bundle will apply. Alternatively, for oracle solaris cluster systems, a rolling upgrade of the cluster nodes may be performed. Could you please help me with patching solaris 10 and 11 due to the changes in daylight savings time in russia. 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 the patch on the global zone only g. After january 31, there will be two types of support available for oracle solaris 10. There is a possible patch available for it but we arent 100% sure just yet. Solaris 11 zones are slightly different from solaris 10 zones. When you install the bigfix client on a computer in your network, you are, by default, installing it in the global zone. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Default routes on the same datalink and ip subnet are shared across nonglobal zones.