Sun patch check free opensource utility to check patch. As per part of take over i need to apply latest security patch in solaris 10 zone1,zone2 and zone3, but global is solaris 11. Scott lynn put together a very informative blog on solaris 10. How can i prevent my mail server from being used as a thirdparty relay. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. How to upgrade and patch with oracle solaris live upgrade pdf. This article provides a pictorial guide for performing a default installation of solaris 10 x8632. Then we install epelrelease to test the rpm installation. How to install top package in solaris 10 tecdistro. Solaris installation poses a challenges to the new solaris sysadmins who have never done the installation of solaris before. Installation install and configure top package as given below. I dont know if its just my own ignorance or oracle purposely obfuscating the latest patch bundles for solaris but i recently had a hell of a time finding the january 2017 patch bundle for solaris 10. Solaris 10 1008 operating system patch list solaris 10.
How to use solaris live upgrade to install patches oracle. How to create and configure solaris 10 zones the geek diary. Patch installation instructions for solaris systems. Zones are widely used in production environments as it is easy to setup. Before upgrading, you must install the oracle solaris live upgrade packages.
It is a fairly involved task depending on which typ of patch. See patch identification numbers and descriptions for oracle solaris 10 platforms for more. Mar 11, 2008 registering solaris 10 and updating patches from the command line cli march 11, 2008 by kevin all the mainstream sun documentation on the sun connection or update manager expects the server to have a gui, which i completely dont understand. This means customers that purchase solaris 10 extended support get the benefit of continued recommended patchset updates, as patches that meet the criteria for inclusion in the. Registering solaris 10 and updating patches from the command line cli march 11, 2008 by kevin all the mainstream sun documentation on the sun connection or update manager expects the server to have a gui, which i completely dont understand. This operation is much easier than solaris 10 os patch bundle installation. Patch installation instructions for solaris systems sun. Its similar to the solaris 89 patchset installation codes, but there are more codes added to the list. Feb 10, 2010 in this twopart video sam, the solaris 10 system administrator, is introduced to the solaris 10 patching best practices by the mysterious patch man. This solaris 10 patching best practices course reference guide is a supplement to the webbased training course ws2700s10. Command to find out when the patches are installed in. Solaris zones enables a software partitioning of solaris 10 os to support multiple independent, secure os environments to run in the same os. 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. Patching best practices for the solaris 10 os with sam the.
How can i determine what patch level the thing is at. Patch 12001114, which obsoletes patch 125100 10, is already installed on your system. I would like to patch the server by installing the recommended patch cluster from oracle solaris 10. Install or upgrade to the latest oracle solaris 10 update release during your next major maintenance window. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena.
This patching activity can be performed while server is in production since we are installing the patches on alternative boot environment. The oracle solaris 10 patch utility patches are 119254% sparc and 119255% x86x64. Depending on the os version on which the patch is installed and the actual patch revision, it requires certain packages and different patches which are not listed in patchdiag. Before running solaris live upgrade for the first time, you must install the latest solaris live upgrade packages from installation media and install the patches. This procedure applies only to solaris 10 servers that have no zones or boot environments configured.
I assume the uname output above is indicating that the latest patch was 10852819, but in varsadm patch there are about 200 patch numbers listed with some 109nnn numbers. Registering solaris 10 and updating patches from the. Solaris patches installation error codes solaris blog. These patches are located in the varsadm patch directory on an installed system. Several operating system patches are required for the proper operation of the compilers and tools in the oracle developer studio 12.
The installation is reasonably straight forward, but it is not as simple and takes significantly longer than most modern linux installations. Earlier it has global is solaris 10, container is 10. Solaris multipathing software mpxio operate now with new arrays using other protocols like sas or iscsi. Installing the required oracle solaris 10 patches oracle. Make sure you have the latest live upgrade packages installed. 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 1 remotely grab the datetime from the most recent thing in the patch directory. The shell module puts the system to sleep for 5 seconds then reboots. Heres a great list of whats new in solaris 10 102009. As a first step, download the recommended patch cluster from the my oracle support mos site. Zones provides a means of virtualizing operating system services, allowing one or more processes to run in isolation from other activity on the system. This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. 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. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris.
Make sure you install the patch that matches your system architecture. I posted this in general before i realized that there was a solaris forum. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Applying patches to the new boot environment or upgrading the os version in new be. I have solaris 10 sparc server with two nonglobal zoneone is whole zone and the other is sparse zone.
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. My question is, 1should i halt all nonglobal zone before beginning the installation or i should leave them running and perform the install. Using the luactivate command to activate the new boot environment or fallback to the original boot environment. This figure describes the commands for the solaris live upgrade process.
A zone is a sandbox within which one or more applications can run without affecting or interacting with the rest of the system. How to configure a solaris 10 zones and configure resources like memory, cpu, file system, disk etc. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. I am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgradingpatching solaris. Oracle kept sending me to a page recommending i use sunsolve. How to reset the aa3x00 configuration if you have been swapping disks with other as or have the orange light on wo any hardware. Kindly clarify below output, i need to update latest security patch to solaris 10. A simple solaris live upgrade procedure involves below 4 steps.
Patching best practices for the solaris 10 os with sam the sysadmin december 2009. The installation is reasonably straight forward, but it is not as simple and takes significantly longer. Patch 12001114, which obsoletes patch 12510010, is already installed on your system. Among the trove is a patch for cve20173622, a local privilege escalation hole in the common desktop environment on solaris 10 that is exploited by the nsas nowpublic extremeparr tool to seize. If you want to list the dependencies of a patch prior to installation, i would recommend using sunsolve. 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. Alternatively, for oracle solaris cluster systems, a rolling upgrade of the cluster nodes may be performed. Does anyone know of a command that would show the list of patches installed and the date it was installed. When youre installing a patch, the patchadd command copies files from the patch directory to the local systems disk. Install the bootblock in the root mirror disk c1t1d0, to make sure it is bootable.
There are two type of repositories are available in oracle to update solaris 11 operating system. Apr 20, 2018 moving forward with solaris 10 extended support, the decision has been made to continue to update the recommended patchsets thru the solaris 10 extended support period. Patch install problem in solaris 10 oracle community. 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. Method of procedures for solaris 10 patch install solutions. Applying patches to the new boot environment with the luupgrade command. If you use pca to generate patch reports only, but not to download and install patches. If you do not have wget installed on your system, download the current patch crossreference file patchdiag. Patch installation instructions for solaris systems before you install the solaris patch, make sure that you have backed up the files listed in preinstallation considerations.
This article describes the process of applying a solaris recommended patch cluster, or patchset as it is now called. Patchreport is written in perl, and does require the addition of several perl modules, libnet, datadumper, md5, libperl, and io. The best way of updating your patching is apply a sun supplied recommended patch cluster, there are instructions here. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. It updates the patch packages pkginfo file with information about patches made obsolete by the patch being installed, other patches. With oracle solaris 10 807, and subsequent releases, patching oracle solaris.
All important application running on zone1 servers. To determine the current set of patches installed, you can use the command. Creating a new boot environment with the lucreate command. Tcr watters 2229985 blind folio ii about the author paul a. Jul 23, 2016 solaris multipathing software mpxio operate now with new arrays using other protocols like sas or iscsi.
For solaris 10 patches, use the unzip command to extract the patch files, as follows. How can i determine the last time a solaris machine was patched. Sun patch check is a simple opensource utility from titania that runs in unix or linux systems to check the patch installation status in a sun solaris server running on a sparc or intel platform and compare it to its own database of the latest recommended patches for that version of solaris operating system. Command to find out when the patches are installed in solaris. This log file is removed if the patch backs out successfully. Unless you transition to oracle solaris 10 extended support, you will not be able to. The patchrm command calls pkgadd to restore packages that were saved from the initial patch installation. Each environment has separate process space, resource allocation and users. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware. Just start with the patch you are looking to applying and pop in the patch id into sunsolvemake sure you are not using an obsoleted version.
Ive now added a hack to pca to make it work with wget v1. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. 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. If you want to know if a patch is installed, obsoleted or there is an update with pca will show it pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches. Depending on the size of your system, the patch process can take over an hour to complete. 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. The old solaris luxadm command still manage fc arrays, but mpathadm command has been developed to work on all the arrays using fc, sas, and iscsi connections. List of solaris 10 updates and their respective calendar dates gerry has a list of new packages in each solaris 10 update. Note that each solaris release consists of a single source base. Click on a recommended patch cluster based on the solaris release running on the system to be patched. Patch installation instructions for solaris systems sun java. Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology. The sun patch page provides all the patches for your specific system configuration.
Patches released after the solaris 10 10 08 release can be found on the my oracle support. Adding a solaris patch system administration guide. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root. Before you install the solaris patch, make sure that you have backed up the files listed in preinstallation considerations to add and remove patches on solaris systems, use the patchadd and patchrm commands, which are provided with the os patchadd command. I will upgrade the kernel patch through bundle patching using solaris live upgrade. If your software requires exactly patch 125100 10 and is not compatible with its successor, then you can try remove patch 12001114. Im trying to find out a way to display the latest patches installed in a solaris box. The patches that are listed in this chapter have been applied to the solaris 10 operating system in one of the following ways. 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. If youre running from an rc script, you cannot just say read foobar in your. 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.
Patching best practices for the solaris 10 os with sam. To add and remove patches on solaris systems, use the patchadd and patchrm commands, which are provided with the os. After the patch or patches are download successfully, you can close the web browser. I assume the uname output above is indicating that the latest patch was 10852819, but in varsadmpatch there are about 200 patch numbers listed with some 109nnn numbers. May 19, 2009 now that some of the systems i have to regularly patch are solaris 10 ones, i have to get used to the new patch return codes which one can see when applying one of the suns recommended patchsets. Solaris web start will assist you in installing software for live upgrade.
Troubleshooting solaris 10 boot issues related to smf and milestones how to create or change. My understanding is that showrev p would show patches but not the date they were installed. It determines the solaris version number of the managing host and the target host. Registering solaris 10 and updating patches from the command.
Use ansible to patch your system and install applications. Now that some of the systems i have to regularly patch are solaris 10 ones, i have to get used to the new patch return codes which one can see when applying one of the suns recommended patchsets. If the server owner or applicationdb teams is requesting you to patch the solaris 11, you have to update the system using pkg commands. D, is a senior lecturer in the department of computing at macquarie. Oracle technical paperoracle solaris 10 recommended patching strategy 3 apply updates for thirdparty and homegrown software and hardware. What are the types of zones whole root zone, sparse root zone, global zone, nonglobal zone, big zone, small zone. Example of upgrading with solaris live upgrade oracle solaris 10. How can i determine the last time a solaris machine was. If your software requires exactly patch 12510010 and is not compatible with its successor, then you can try remove patch 12001114. Patch installation instructions for solaris systems before you install the solaris patch, make sure that you have backed up the files listed in pre installation considerations. Previous versions of pca are available for download in the download area. The readme, the install log, plus and backout scripts for patches you installed are copied to varsadmpatches, not the actual patches themselves. Though the installation itself is simple and straight forward but doing it the first time comes with its own anxiety associated with unexplored and unknown things.
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