Run the add nfs share solaris 10 task to add the path to the nfs share. Applying a patch to a solaris system with zones installed. 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. Solaris 11 zones are slightly different from solaris 10 zones. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are. In addition, you need to select use a slice on the disk on the. Oracle repatches 11 year old solaris hole that survived.
Become superuser, or assume the primary administrator role. This article describes the process of applying a solaris recommended patch cluster, or patchset as it is now called. The global zone is still patched before the nonglobal zones are patched. The zones parallel patching feature was officially released on tuesday and is contained. For releases prior to solaris 10 10 09, this feature is delivered in the patch utilities patch, 11925466 or later revision sparc and 11925566 or later revision x86. If youre running a fair few nonglobal zones on solaris 10, youll know full well how painfully slow the patching process is. Note that bug fixes for some thirdparty or communitybased software delivered as part of oracle solaris may be.
I need some one to explain this steps as i am new to this. On peut creer des zones solaris 10 sparse le type par defaut ou big. Set the number of nonglobal zones that will be patched in parallel in the patchadd configuration file etcpatchnf. Solaris 10 install went flawlessly, you have to go back and forth slightly in order to partition the disk but other than that no trouble at all. This article is going to explain that how to update the solaris 11. Well see how to add other resources like cpu, memory, file. Solaris 10 container guide helpful unixsolaris tips.
Both these tasks are available on the patching support site. Hi andy, long time no speak, hope your well i dont have all the answers to your questions, but i do have a doc attached that i was using a while back to understand managing solaris 10 zonescontainers, its quite useful as it gives some command line examples i believe there is a level of virtualisation intelligence built into the unix km now. And when we are doing it online, it involves much more than just running patchadd commands. 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. Posted march 24, 2005 by quinn mchenry in solaris system administration.
But eventually all good things must continue reading how to get to solaris 10 patches post premier support. 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. Two filesystem models in solaris 10 zones as you probably know, there are two such. Branded zones these are solaris 8 or solaris 9 zones on the solaris 10 global zones. In solaris 10 got an interesting feature to enable ssl for any service by adding a. Based on you running solaris express on sparc, it appears youd need to flip to solaris 10, or more likely solaris 11 which would be closer to solaris express opensolaris that youre using. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris.
Zones parallel patching is an enhancement to the standard solaris 10 patch utilities, which comprise the supported method for patching nonglobal zones on. 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 installed the realtek driver, that worked right away on a wired network, but as usual same with linux it doesnt seem to work on a wireless network. Help req for patching on solaris 10 zones hi experts, can advise on this. How to create and configure solaris 10 zones the geek diary. After years of unbearably slow patching and terrible package dependency handling, the packaging and patching system used in every previous version of solaris has finally been replaced. 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. Theres perhaps a less known tunning that allows for parallel updating of multiple zones. 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. Analyzing a patchadd or patchrm failure in the solaris os. 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.
Traditional method non live upgrade by admin this post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of. Let us create a new zone with a minimal resources and settings required to get it up and running. You must be the global administrator in the global zone to perform this procedure. The zones parallel patching enhancement to the standard solaris 10 patch utilities increases the patching tools performance on systems with multiple zones by allowing parallel patching of the nonglobal zones. Oracle technical paperoracle solaris 10 recommended patching strategy 3 apply updates for thirdparty and homegrown software and hardware. The zones update on attach feature and patching in the solaris 10 os.
Functionality status up to solaris 10 1009 and opensolaris 2009. All system operations such as installations, startups and shutdowns are done in the global zone. Although all zones on the system share a common kernel. S8 and s9branded zones are no longer supported, but solaris 10 zones within s11 are supported.
The zoneadm command can be used to list active or running zones. Solaris 10 patching best practices course reference guide pdf for more information, see the oracle solaris training. Solaris zone of solaris 10 operating system function. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Aug 15, 2011 bigadmin solaris containers zones zones parallel patching. Our current production server is oraclesun t5220 running solaris 10 os with 2. As a first step, download the recommended patch cluster from the my oracle support mos site. 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. Make patchadd modify packages in the current zone only.
To view a list and brief status information about running zones, use. Solaris 11 virtualization using zones the urban penguin. 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. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. The zones parallel patching feature is now available in the latest solaris 10 patch utilities patch, 11925466 sparc and 11925566 x86. Oraclesolaris patching using live upgrade in todays post ill be talking about a procedure for patching solaris server having zones installed on it using live upgrade functionality.
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. Pca analyze, download and install patches for oracle solaris. Comparing solaris 11 zones to solaris 10 zones oracle. How to get to solaris 10 patches post premier support. If you have just arrived at this page, then you might want to start with solaris 10 zones. Zones parallel patching starting with the solaris 10 10 09 release, zones parallel patching enhances the standard oracle solaris 10 patch utilities.
Solaris 10 parallel zone patching by a zoned solaris 10 system i mean the existence of many nonglobal zones ngz. Just a point of clarification regarding zones parallel patching. Global zone is the traditional os environment and is where solaris os is installed. Parallel patching in solaris 10 when you patch a solaris 10 server it applies each patch to each zone oneatatime. Collection of system administration tips for solaris 10 and opensolaris. 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. A solaris zone is a partitioned virtual os environment working in a solaris os space. With time we have formulated a couple of steps that makes life easier during patching of sun servers.
Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and 298 other security bugs. 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. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware. Let me know what you think when you have a free minute. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. The former can achieve the goals of the latter, and they also offer features not found in solaris 10 zones. This feature improves zones patching performance by patching nonglobal zones in parallel. Patching best practices for the solaris 10 os docdeveloppement. What is the best method to run patch for live systesms. The vulnerability affects all versions of solaris 10 and 11 allowing 1 locally logged in users to esclate their priviledge to their hearts content. This procedure applies only to solaris 10 servers that have no zones or boot environments configured. For releases prior to oracle solaris 10 10 09, this feature is delivered in the patch utilities patch, 11925466 or later revision sparc and 11925566 or later revision x86. Zones are application containers that is maintained by the running operating system. 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.
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. Kindly let me know the best practices for managing the solaris server for patching. In an episode reminiscent of the frequently revived windows usb hole which propagated stuxnet, oracle has repatched a kernel level hole in the solaris availability suite service which survived its initial patching 11 years ago largely intact. To install solaris on a disk that has the smi label, which is a format used in solaris 10 and earlier, you need to change the label of the disk with the format e command in advance. The directory etczones contains the configuration files for each zone by the zone name. Examining these files will show the show the configuration of the zones.
In fact this is indeed the case with solaris 10s new patching mechanism that was introduced when zones were introduced. Oraclesolaris patching using live upgrade unix my first. Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology. This is available for use on all solaris 10 systems. 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. 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.
Help req for patching on solaris 10 zones the unix and. In the all patch management content node of the navigation tree, click fixlets and tasks. How can i determine the last time a solaris machine was. We have had zones as a form of virtualization in solaris since solaris 10, with the release of solaris 11 zones take a massive leap forward in the way they use resources, or dont use, compared with the architecture in solaris 10. Upgrading with nonglobal zones oracle solaris 10 1. If running a release prior to solaris 10 10 09, download patch 11925466 or later revision sparc or 11925566 or later revision x86. And if you want it before u8 shows up it should be delivered as a patch to patchadd late june. Solaris zones parallel patching lildude solariszonesparallelpatching 20090619t17. Zones have been updated and have gained some features, but also have lost some features.
For example, solaris 8 and solaris 9branded zones were supported with solaris 10 as a way to capture a previousos system and run its apps within s10. In solaris 11, oracle removed the word called patches from their dictionary. How can i determine the last time a solaris machine was patched. Examine etczones directory to display zone configuration file. Patch management for solaris 10 server oracle community. From time to time you have to update or patch your system. Using live upgrade to apply patches to running solaris 10. I am planning to do solaris 11 global zone patching having solaris 10 branded zone. System patching one of the important job responsibility for solaris administrator. Today ill tell you about root filesystem models for nonglobal zones in solaris. You can add a persistent or nonpersistent share with different access levels. 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. Solaris 10 patching best practices we have a mammoth task every quarter to patch all our unix servers, and every month if the servers are in dmz.
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