This book offers practical planning advice as well as real world demonstrations on how to configure and maintain solaris boot disks that ensure minimal outage and recovery effort when a disk fails or when the boot disk is corrupted. The latter option is particularly useful in an environment using sunoracle servers without a graphics card while you can use ilomalom, going straight to the serial port is much faster. Hi all, i have been tasked with patching a solaris 10 cluster, and there is one thing i cannot seem to get my head around. 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. The solaris 10 recommended patchset really does contain all. Live patching for the solaris 9 operating system experts.
Patch for solaris users guide hcl software product. Booting from an alternate boot disk if the root disk is encapsulated and mirrored, you can use one of its mirrors to boot the system if the primary boot disk fails. The versions of ssh and sendmail that ship with solaris 10 will automatically use tcp wrappers to filter access if a hosts. Oct 26, 2011 create the alternate boot environment to be used during the solaris live upgrade software patch process. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Mount the current boot environment root slice to some directory like mnt. Traditional method non live upgrade by admin this post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of.
Here i am explaining, step to create lu boot environment on solaris10. 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. Lets see how to fix such a issues on oracle solaris 10 x86 and sparc environment. 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. Therefore, 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. To confirm this you could use the df k command and make sure you are booted to the alternate boot environment with the latest patch installed. How to upgrade and patch with oracle solaris live upgrade pdf. Environmental variables and other settings are taken into account. A boot environment is a bootable oracle solaris environment consisting of a root dataset and, optionally, other datasets mounted underneath it. Managing boot environments transitioning from oracle. This site includes legacy solaris 10 and earlier core os patch content.
For example, if you were to patch a solaris 10 305 system with the latest recommended patch cluster, many of the patches relate to functionality introduced after solaris 10 305, and therefore, patches with the new functionality would fail to install. Install the latest lu patches to the current boot environment. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. 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. Proceed with the creation of alternate boot environment abe. Solaris 10 patching ufs and no boot environments oracle. How to upgrade and patch with oracle solaris live upgrade. Alternatively, just read the latest available oracle security cpu critical patch update pad product advisory doc. Boot the machine to single user mode using a different boot device like the solaris install cd or network. 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. You must specify the exact number of file systems you want to create by repeating this option. It is also important to know whether the solaris kernel you are patching is 32 or 64bit. Therefore the patch utilities fail to correctly patch an inactive oracle solaris 10 boot environment. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena.
Pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches. Also with that oracle solaris release, the oracle solaris live upgrade tools have been modified to work in an oracle solaris zfs environment. This patch may contain one or more oemspecific platform ports. Boot disk management examines the life cycle of the solaris operating environment oe and its boot disk. Infozip zip compression and file packagingarchive utility version. If the server owner or applicationdb teams is requesting you to patch the solaris 11, you have to update the system using pkg commands. Solaris how to boot system into emergency mode nixcraft. Checking patches that you specified for installation. Zfs patching with zones using lu liveupgrade in solaris. Note that this does not apply if you are applying the patch cluster to an alternate boot environment. To boot system for emergency mode boot from cd 1 boot from solaris 1st cd. Because you are applying the patches to the inactive boot environment. How to boot from an alternate operating system or boot environment.
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. The root file system is mirrored with in the internal disks and the home filesystems are on nfs mounted external storage. In this example, the mount points for the file systems are specified by using the m option. Live upgrade allows the system admin to upgrade or patch a running system with the only downtime being the server reboot once the upgrade or patch is complete.
Creating a new boot environment oracle solaris 10 811. 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. In oracle solaris 11, the pkg update command is used to update a be, or you can use the beadm command set to create, display, and remove bes tools for managing boot environments. The solaris 10 recommended patchset really does contain. Disk space for the second boot environment under oracle solaris zfs with the release of oracle solaris 10 10 08 it is possible to boot from an oracle solaris zfsmanaged pool. In oracle solaris 11, the pkg update command is used to update a be, or you can use the beadm command set to create, display, and remove bes.
Upgrading a boot environment oracle solaris 10 1 installation. In oracle solaris 11, the pkg update command is used to update a be, or you can use the beadm command set to create, display. How to create a live upgrade boot environment solaris commands. You can use live upgrade to add patches and packages to a. It also helped unixsolaris administrators on a large scale with regard to multiuser enterprise systems. Summary this is a great book for solaris system administrators or planners. Booting from an alternate operating system or boot environment. First verify both the disk are healthy rootdisk and mirrordisk boot with rootdisk and break the disk mirrors of mirrordisk. I recently faced a curious problem when trying to patch an alternate boot environment created with live upgrade on solaris 10. The boot process on x86x64 hardware is bit different than the sparc hardware. How to create a live upgrade boot environment solaris live upgrade is an excellent way to manage solaris operating system upgrades and patches. Though i have enough space in root filesystem of both zones, everytime i run installcluster. Live upgrade patching method has the following sequence. In this article will show you how to create and activate new boot environment in oracle solaris 11.
Where c for current boot device, m for mount point with the new device and its filesystem type, n for new boot environment name. In this example we removed a custom idr patch provided by oracle. Upgrading a boot environment oracle solaris 10 811 installation. The x86x64 hardware also involves the 5 step boot process, same as the sparc hardware. There are two type of repositories are available in oracle. On systems that are running a solaris release that is not zones aware, using the patchadd command, or any command that accepts the r option to specify an alternate root path for a global zone that has nonglobal zones installed, does not work you can use of the r option to add and remove software packages and patches, if. Live upgrade allows the system admin to upgrade or patch a running system with the only downtime being the server reboot once the upgrade or. How to use solaris live upgrade to install patches oracle. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool. Note that each solaris release consists of a single source base. This operation is much easier than solaris 10 os patch bundle installation. Many of our solaris 10 systems are old and filesystems like var and usr usrlocal and opt etc are all dumped under root filesystem in the global zone.
This patching activity can be performed while server is in production since we are installing the patches on alternative boot environment. As a result, the developers are working on a cumulative set of all previous changes. On a sun sparc r system, booting from an alternate boot disk requires eeprom settings to be changed. Solaris live upgrade consists of a set of tools that enable users to create an alternate boot environment that is a mirror copy of the current boot partition and then patch the newly created boot partition prior to making it live. I want to use patching to inactive boot environment method and need urgent assistance. How to create and check lu live upgrade boot environment. Beginners guide to oracle solaris live upgrade the geek diary. The lucreate command enables reorganizing a disk if necessary, customizing file systems, and copying the critical file systems to the new boot environment. Restrictions on using patchadd r to create an alternate root path. If the your rootdisk is mirrored using veritas or svm.
With the release of the oracle solaris 10 1008 operating system. Patches fails with unhandled subprocess exit status 5 exit n branch patch fails with below errors. I am in process of applying solaris recommended patch cluster via live upgrade. Creating a boot environment provides a method of copying critical file systems from the active boot environment to a new boot environment. Sep 16, 2011 the procedure given above is still being followed by many small scale setups and as i said this information gives good insights to patching topic of solaris. This article describes the process of applying a solaris recommended patch cluster, or patchset as it is now called. Example 4 10 creating a boot environment with a mirror and not specifying a submirror name. The filesystems are all ufs, so i will creating a new boot environment on other disks, and moving over the shared filesystems.
This procedure applies only to solaris 10 servers that have no zones or boot environments configured. A boot environment be is a zfs file system that is designated for booting. Oracle, db2, hibernate, jmsmq series, web service, soap, and xml. The benefits of using solaris live upgrade are the following. Note you can use the lucreate command with the m option to specify which file systems and the number of file systems to be created in the new boot environment. Architecture for package sunwnxge from directory sunwnxge. Exactly one boot environment can be active at a time. For example, a single use of the m option specifies where to put all the file systems. How to create a live upgrade boot environment solaris. A guide for setting up solaris x86 and other operating systems on a single machine. Startup and termination files used by the various unix shells. 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. I have solaris10 sparc box with zfs filesystem, which is running two non global zones.
How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. When you intend only to patch an inactive boot environment, you might need to verify that. 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. Once patched, the new boot partition can be booted. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware. The lu boot environment is mainly will help us to reduce down time of the server for upgrade os as well as os patching activity purpose. 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. Recommendations and methods for selecting hardware and partitioning the solaris oe boot disk are presented in detail.
Additionally, this book provides recommendations for installing the solaris oe, as well as recommendations for managing. Applying patches to the new boot environment or upgrading the os version in new be. A boot environment is essentially a bootable instance of the oracle solaris os image, plus any other software packages that are installed into that image. Solaris 10 installation on kvm constantly reboot unix. I have solaris 10 sparc box with zfs filesystem, which is running two non global zones. Previously, you could perform a live upgrade or use the patchadd command to update your be.
Although not a comprehensive list, the following should provide you with a basic understanding of. Upgrading a boot environment oracle solaris 10 811. In the last post we saw the boot process in solaris 10 on sparc platform. It can be done by using beadm command to create and activate the new boot environment which is cloned from the active boot environment. Hi i have a sun m4000 with 1 global and 4 nonglobal zones running solaris. I havent tried burning it yet to dvd, but i shouldnt have to. Take an instance, there are sol1 and sol2 nodes and having two failover zones like sozone1rg and sozone2rg and currently.
Oracle technical paperoracle solaris 10 recommended patching strategy 3 apply updates for thirdparty and homegrown software and hardware. Solaris 10 boot archive question hi, im new to solaris 10 and im trying to learn compiling and installing software. How to create and activate new boot environment in oracle. Nov 21, 2017 solaris 11 alternate boot environments introduction to managing boot environments. Restrictions on using patchadd r to create an alternate. In other words, you have to update the system instead of the patching it. As with solaris 10, the boot menu grub lets you choose an install over a local terminal or serial ports.
Applying patches to the new boot environment with the luupgrade command. However when i restarted the vm it doesnt go to login screen but just constantly reboots. Ive read different documents link1 link2 link3 but none of their solutions helped. 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 performed patching for solaris os under zfs with zones using live upgrade. Note this procedure provides commands for the solaris 10 807 release.
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