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. This is an optional step that allows you to identify the key and certificate further. Perform the following steps to update an existing oracle solaris 11. Stepbystep installation of oracle solaris 11 sparc tech. System administrators can patch a system image rapidly without impacting the boot.
Oracles ultimate goal is to make the solaris patching like redhat linux satellite server patching model. I have the task of patching six ldoms and two control domains. Step by step installing oracle 11g r2 on oracle solaris 10. 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. Oracle solaris 11 packaging from the architect, stephen hahn, a summary of how indianas image packaging system ips changes patching. Install and configure oracle 11gr2 with asm on solaris 10 there are 3 simple steps to install oracle oracle database 11g release 2 with asm option.
Sun patch check and patchdiag can be used to find patches to install, but installation would have to be done manually. The next step in the process is to download the key and certificate for the oracle solaris 11 supported repository. 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. Here i am explaining, step to create lu boot environment on solaris10.
The repository must reside on an oracle solaris 11 image packaging system ips server. Sep 10, 2015 system patching one of the important job responsibility for solaris administrator. How to install an idr pkg using a p5p in solaris 11 eli. May 01, 2006 how to patch a live system mirrored with svm. I am learning solaris, with solaris 10 x86, and one of the chapters in the manual is about patching. As a first step, download the recommended patch cluster from the my oracle support mos site. I wonder if i could make patching without live upgrade in a following way. Steps if the service domain sdom does not exist, please ensure the guest ldoms are stopped cleanly. We are getting multiple requests for solaris kernel patching procedure from many of your gurkul followers. Oracle has only released 12c database for linux and solaris platforms. Apply the patch by issuing the following commands a. Zfs patching with zones using lu liveupgrade in solaris. Upon watching this video, youd learn how to perform basic package administration in solaris 11 operating system.
Developed by oracle in coordination with disa for the dod. For this, download oracle 11gr2 and oracle solaris 10, create virtual machine and install oracle solaris 10 using my following step by step tutorial. Longterm patch the ldom guests please remember that solaris mpgroups are not supported with solaris 11 ldom guests. Using solaris live upgrade lu to patch cpu patch cluster.
For patching an inactive be, the installcluster script takes the b. On the components tab, add the following items to component group 1 and ensure they are ordered as listed here. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. For more solaris commands interview questions click here. So, solaris 11 which is radically different from the solaris 10, but talk about it separately it deserves another blog post for another time in terms of patching strategy is double. Ok, at least i got some steps for further investigation. I had a zpool which was running on 2 mirrored 3tb disks. Solaris 11 nonglobal zone patching oracle community. Mar 02, 2016 what is the recommended method to patch a solaris 11 non global zone. Just wanted to share my experience along with the steps i ran and the. Performing a solaris 11 patch analysis documentation for. Single user mode doesnt really work for patching solaris 10 with zones. Solaris 11 global zone patching having solaris 10 branded zone. I have never done this before and would like to know of any pitfalls or gotchas i may encounter.
For a customer on an early version of solaris 10, such as solaris 10 0305, solaris 10 106 update 1, or solaris 10 606 update 2, there is a very significant amount of code change delivered, for example, in the current kernel patch compared with the original kernels delivered in these releases. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgrading patching solaris. Step by step oracle 12c database install on oracle virtual machine. Can i have different sru levels in non global zones.
Updating the software on your oracle solaris 11 system. In the example given on step 2, you must deploy the update repository for solaris 11. We have already covered how to install the newest database version on linux here. To install the patch perform the following steps on at least one node in the cluster. New solaris 11 cpu package to install and track cve security fixes. This task enables you to deploy individual packages or all the packages for an sru.
That directory structure should only be modified by the solaris patching and packaging utilities. This procedure applies only to solaris 10 servers that have no zones or boot environments configured. Change the directory to the uncompressed patch location. Some data centers apply only the bare minimum of changes, such as critical security patches, operating on the principle of if it aint broke, dont fix it. Mar 26, 2015 this article will talk about the oracle solaris 11. 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. Hello, id like to install the latest patch cluster on my solaris 10 sparc server. Install and configure oracle 11gr2 with asm on solaris 10. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the. With the new highpowered oracle solaris 11, sparc enterprise servers are able to further maximize system uptime while reducing costs.
In solaris 11, oracle removed the word called patches from their dictionary. There is interesting thread on zonesdiscuss the situationstart with s10u8 zonezoneadm attach u to s10u9 hostsv2v to s11 express as solaris10 brand zoneupdate the host to solaris 11 from solaris. What is the best method to run patch for live systesms. Uncompress the patch that you downloaded from veritas. The solaris patch manager tool provides all the necessary features in one application. Sep 16, 2011 general procedure for kernel patching in solaris. An alternative method of patching solaris 11 endpoints is to use the install packages by using pkg task. 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. Nov 25, 2009 free solaris 10 patching best practices training lildude free solaris 10 patching bestpracticestraining 2009 11 25t15. For more information, see installing packages on solaris 11. The solaris 11 sparc security technical implementation guide stig is published as a tool to improve the security of department of defense dod information systems. How can i patch a global zone without patching nonglobal zones. Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology.
Updating the solaris 11 patch repository documentation. In this article we will look at installing oracle 12c database on solaris. How can i patch a non global zone without patching the global zone. Solaris 11 ips handon lab creating ips repository solaris 11 ips. Once youve installed the package pkg install solaris 11 cpu, applying all available solaris fixes for cve. How to patch a live system mirrored with svm blogo thnet. If you need to add a patch to a diskless client system, see patching diskless client os services. Adding a solaris patch system administration guide. Topics include security, installation, networking and much more. Since ansible does not ship with solaris and is not natively in. The patching requires that the zones be bootable, and they are not bootable because of service dependencies when in single user. Hello, i just tried booting a solaris 10 branded zone after upgrading its host. To perform patch analysis for solaris 11 servers, you create and run an nsh script job from the provided solaris 11 patching script.
To download repository files, see oracle solaris 11. Very important point to note and also, a considerable difference from solaris 10 to solaris 11 is noticed in this step. That is, the content of all previous psus is included in the latest psu patch. Failback plan for solaris os patching with vcssvm environment. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Jun 10, 2012 zfs patching with zones using lu liveupgrade in solaris. Does the zoneadm attach u option will update the patches in nonglobal zone in solaris 11.
The approach you take to patching and upgrading your cluster will vary depending on your data center standards. Dns client configuration steps in oracle solaris 11. So can i download free patches from the sun page, i mean wit the unix and linux forums. Solaris 11 ips handon lab creating ips repository the. This document describe step to step procedure to apply patch set update psu on oracle standalone grid, asm and database version 11. Solaris 11 sparc security technical implementation guide. Any one of the cli tools mentioned for solaris will provide an easy process to automate patch management. Once the patching is completed, you need to reboot to load the latest kernel version.
Free solaris 10 patching best practices training cols tech. Apply vxvm private hotfix to the cdom and reboot 2. This screencast demonstrates the image packaging system ips in solaris 11. Yes, zfs is the default file system of oracle solaris 11. Installing solaris 11 x86 step by step tech support. To update a solaris 11 patch repository, you create and run an nsh script job from the provided solaris 11 update repository script. How to create and upgrade a solaris 11 local repository. Aug 11, 20 after you are on next screen of solaris 11 installation, you will have the disk option, disk where oracle solaris 11 will be installed. Lately, i have been involved in a number of customer projects involving ansible to manage various aspects of a solaris environment, notably on the sparc model 300 in the oracle compute cloud. 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. To determine the distribution and version of oracle solaris installed, enter the following command. Recently i updated one of our lab systems running solaris 11.
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. And when we are doing it online, it involves much more than just running patchadd commands. How to create and check lu live upgrade boot environment on solaris10. Ok, the short story is, some of zfs file systems on this pool have permanent errors, including the root zfs filesystem, which means iv lost the whole pool, about 2tb data.
Log in as superuser on the system where you are installing the patch. The following command shows that oracle solaris 11. I need some one to explain this steps as i am new to this. The readme file for each sru includes lists of bugs fixed, packages updated, and interim diagnostic or relief idr updates superseded in this sru. We will have a solaris 11 binary distribution, called solaris 11 express, that will have a free developer rtu license, and an optional support plan. 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. 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. Solaris 11 global zone patching having solaris 10 branded zone i am planning to do solaris 11 global zone patching having solaris 10 branded zone. Problem booting solaris 10 zone imported form solaris 11. Tables with listing of sru numbers and patch numbers for s11 releases are contained in mos documents. Solaris 11 express will debut by the end of this calendar year, and we will issue updates to it, leading to the full release of solaris 11 in 2011. Next steps include mounting the recently detached file systems and prepare the first disk to.
New solaris 11 cpu package to install and track cve. For information about fields in the fmri, see fault management resource identifiers. The following steps detail how to do this from the os level, as well as create a startup script in the etcinit. They contain a number of links to resources which i hope you will find useful. Jan 06, 2011 heres a document and a corresponding presentation ive written describing the oracle solaris 10 recommended patching strategy. Aug 11, 2016 either you install oracle solaris 11 on a virtual machine or on a baremetal hardware, the installation steps will be remain same. Solaris recommended patch clusters do not upgrade solaris to the next minor revision, for example from 0404 to 0408, you stay on the same revision as you was. In this step by step tutorial im going to show you the steps of installing oracle 11gr2 on oracle solaris 10.
How to create and check lu live upgrade boot environment. Live patching for the solaris 9 operating system experts. I am trying to present the simple patching procedure when. Preparation before you can do live patching, you need an extra boot disk.
Solaris live upgrade software enables the operating system to continue to run while upgrades, patch installations, or routine maintenance operations are performed. I would like to patch the server by installing patch cluster on solaris 10 zones. After you are on next screen of solaris 11 installation, you will have the disk option, disk where oracle solaris 11 will be installed. Solaris 10 is the first unix that deserves to be called xxi century unix due to implementation of lightweight virtualization scheme called zones, extension of rbac and process. If you plan to use multiple repositories later in your patch analysis, you can run this job on each of the different repositories that you plan to use in separate job runs. Problem booting solaris 10 zone imported form solaris 11 express too old to reply ian collins 20111214 03. Oracle solaris 11 greatly reduces system downtime when systems are being upgraded and simplifies implementation of security threat protection. 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 branded zone solaris 11 gz patching steps 1. Comments or proposed revisions to this document should be sent via email to the following address. This article is going to explain that how to update the solaris 11. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena.
The packaging design im working on has support for management of images, which are a combination of the basic idea of a boot environment with some amount of linkage or sharing, as in zones. Before you begin ensure that you have installed the scripts for the solaris 11 patching solution, as described in installing the scriptbased patching solution for solaris 11. Stepbystep installation of oracle solaris 11 sparc. Then we have to perform below task to bring the server into normal operational status. I am trying to present the simple patching procedure when our disks are under solaris volume manager control, svm. Apply vxvm private hotfix to the sdom and reboot 3.
Patching and upgrading your cluster managing your oracle. This is command used for installing recommended cluster, the most. Use the patchadd command to add patches to servers or standalone systems. I want install oracle 11g on solaris 10 but i dont unzip database file. Howto update your oracle solaris 11 systems using support. Adding or updating individual packages to add individual software packages, use the pkg install command. So the conclusion is, while using oracle database 12c on solaris 11 sparc64, you will definitely need to install the libpicl. Help needed for patching on zone cluster the unix and. To upgrade a system that is running oracle solaris 11 express or the oracle solaris early adopter release, see oracle solaris 11 release notes. Ensure oracle solaris 11 support is selected, and then click the submit to go to a screen that allows you to add additional certificate data to distinguish this key and certificate pair, as shown in figure 3. If i have a number of sol 10 sparc nodes and i want to apply a patch cluster cpu to the os, how does puppet os or pe help me. This article describes the process of applying a solaris recommended patch cluster, or patchset as it is now called. Generally cpu os patch cluster will take more time to complete the patch.
This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. Hi, i have solaris 10 sparc server with two nonglobal zoneone is whole zone and the other is sparse zone. 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. One or more solaris patch fixlets available in the. I am planning to do solaris 11 global zone patching having solaris 10 branded zone. Solaris 10 recommended patching strategy oracle solaris blog. In case of multiple boot environments, boot using the be you wish to install the patch on.
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