Sep 10, 2015 system patching one of the important job responsibility for solaris administrator. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgradingpatching solaris. The patching requires that the zones be bootable, and they are not bootable because of service dependencies when in single user. Hi, does anybody know how to check solaris 11 patch version. 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. If you are patching a package that was added by using the pkgadd command with the g option, the package must be patched by using the patchadd command with the g option. Comparing solaris 11 zones to solaris 10 zones oracle jeff.
This is available for use on all solaris 10 systems. This is an optional step that allows you to identify the key and certificate further. Solaris 11 virtualization using zones the urban penguin. Oracle solaris 11 packaging from the architect, stephen hahn, a summary of how indianas image packaging system ips changes patching. Solaris 11 has added a lot of new features to the zones technology. Oracle solaris 11 zone features transitioning from oracle. Be sure to save such binaries before patching and restore afterward, or edit the patch list, or both, to avoid this problem. Apr 19, 2017 oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and 298 other security bugs. Im more or less familiar with zic on freebsd, and i know where to obtain the latest timezone data.
Jun 17, 2009 the zones parallel patching feature is now available in the latest solaris 10 patch utilities patch, 11925466 sparc and 11925566 x86. 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. Jun 12, 20 solaris 11 zones are slightly different from solaris 10 zones. Oracle solaris zones, oracle solaris 10 zones, and resource management. Applying a patch to an oracle solaris system with zones installed. 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 patching documentation center oracle technology. Use solaris 11 to have the new ipsboot environment feature, where you always have a lu like environment. 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.
Solaris zone patching patch management for solaris supports zone patching on solaris 10 endpoints. Examine etc zones directory to display zone configuration file. May 19, 2009 in fact this is indeed the case with solaris 10s new patching mechanism that was introduced when zones were introduced. By default all the application should have configured with specific port number. Comparing solaris 11 zones to solaris 10 zones oracle. Does the zoneadm attach u option will update the patches in nonglobal zone in solaris 11. How to migrate solaris 10 zones to solaris 11 as branded. I have a doubts on step 8 specially can someone clear my step 8 doubts or. 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. This procedure applies only to solaris 10 servers that have no zones or boot environments configured. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgrading patching solaris. If you are using solaris 11 you have the opportunity to virtualize with zones or using oracle vm for sparc. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. I would like to patch the server by installing patch cluster on solaris 10 zones.
Solaris 10 container deployed from solaris 10 global zone to solaris 11 global zone. Patching solaris 10 on servers with nonglobal zones. In my case i have solaris 10 production server, with 3 non global 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 branded zone solaris 11 gz patching steps 1.
System administrators can patch a system image rapidly without impacting the boot. Solaris 11 nonglobal zone patching oracle community. Wikis apply the wisdom of crowds to generating information for users interested in a particular subject. Dec 15, 20 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. I am planning to do solaris 11 global zone patching having solaris 10 branded zone. 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. Patches may only be loaded on the global zone but not on. Zones are application containers that is maintained by the running operating system. Single user mode doesnt really work for patching solaris 10 with 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. Actually, no patching should occur for solaris10 zone.
Just fyi, we had another customer inquire about solaris 11 patching support, and whether or not it was coming in bsa 8. Applying a patch to a solaris system with zones installed. Cheatsheet, documentation, manuals, solaris, solaris 11 solaris 11 cheat sheetalways good to have something like this handy. You can search all wikis, start a wiki, and view the wikis you own, the wikis you interact with as an editor or reader, and the wikis you follow. When used in a nonglobal zone by the zone administrator, patchadd can only be. This article is going to explain that how to update the solaris 11. Part of the solaris 10 operating system os, solaris zones are widely discussed across all corners of the web.
Transitioning an oracle solaris 10 instance to an oracle solaris 11 system. Solaris zone patching bigfix ibm endpoint manager forum. The directory etc zones contains the configuration files for each zone by the zone name. To patch, you must upgrade to a newer version of the software package in question. Solaris 11 zones offer the best of solaris 10 wholeroot zones and sparseroot zones, and offer an array of new features that. Zones parallel patching to reduce patching time and solaris 10 10. 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. But sometimes your application will not start if that port has been already occupied by another application process. 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. Oracle solaris zones, oracle solaris 10 zones, and resource management is for anyone responsible for administering one or. Now i need to know how to check latest kernel version in solaris 10 container. Detach the zone from the oracle solaris 10 system and attach the zone on the oracle solaris 11 zone. Hi, i have solaris 10 sparc server with two nonglobal zoneone is whole zone and the other is sparse zone.
Although it is also possible to modify the solaris content in such a zone, e. I no longer maintain this content, and moved it to a wiki so that others can. Howto update your oracle solaris 11 systems using support. I was glad to hear that quality plaster walls could still be an option, at least for those who can afford. How do you do the patching on sorlais which has zones.
The zone is halted and detached from its current host. Yes, all the normal patching tools work, they just wont apply the kernel patches. The zones parallel patching feature is now available in the latest solaris 10 patch utilities patch, 11925466 sparc and 11925566 x86. Note in the diagram below the oracle solaris 8 and oracle solaris 9 environments running on oracle solaris 10, or oracle solaris 10 environments running on oracle solaris 11.
You can transition your oracle solaris 10 environment to a nonglobal zone on an oracle solaris 11 system by creating a zone archive and migrating the zone archive to an oracle solaris 11 system. This article describes the process of applying a solaris recommended patch cluster, or patchset as it is now called. There are two type of repositories are available in oracle to update solaris 11 operating system. Let us get started and see how we can create a zone in solaris 11. Jun 12, 2012 transitioning an oracle solaris 10 instance to an oracle solaris 11 system. The solaris cookbook the cookbook and reference for it admins. Jan 24, 2015 traditionally we will use lsof command to determine what process is using the particular port. In fact this is indeed the case with solaris 10s new patching mechanism that was introduced when zones were introduced. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool. If you are patching a package that was added by using the pkgadd command with the g.
Applying patches to non global zone only logiqwest. Could you please help me with patching solaris 10 and 11 due to the changes in daylight savings time in russia. 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. I have few queries in case of patch implementation in solaris 10 os with zone environment. Solaris live upgrade software enables the operating system to continue to run while upgrades, patch installations, or routine maintenance operations are performed. This article will talk about the oracle solaris 11. Oracles ultimate goal is to make the solaris patching like redhat linux satellite server patching model. At a simple level, to update all packages on your system, if newer versions are. 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. Ibm bigfix provides a method for using local repositories to store patch updates for solaris 11. If the server owner or applicationdb teams is requesting you to patch the solaris 11, you have to update the system using pkg commands. This tool is included in solaris 10 and is able to analyze systems, download and install patches.
Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and 298 other security bugs. 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. Nonglobal zone configuration and installation data. System patching one of the important job responsibility for solaris administrator. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware. You can migrate an oracle solaris 10 system or zone to a solaris10 zone on an oracle solaris 11 system in the following ways. The zones parallel patching feature was officially released on tuesday and is contained. Oracle seems to give lovely automated setup instructions for solaris x86, which presumably work great for setting up a new solaris 11 system over pxe. Thanks for contributing an answer to stack overflow. In oracle solaris 11, oracle solaris zones become even more central to both the. Solaris 11 is public available and the ips package management is setting new standards in solaris administration and version management. When creating a zone in oracle solaris 11 the network interface is configured as a default so the command above right is less complex and only two elements are required to create a basic oracle solaris 11 zone. You can use the patchadd system utility described in the. This operation is much easier than solaris 10 os patch bundle installation.
If youre like me, this is not such a wonderful thing. Creating a baseline for singleuser mode create a baseline to modify a solaris patch fixlet for singleuser. Singleuser mode patch application you must bring computers into singleuser mode to prepare them for kernellevel or clusterlevel patching. Everyone who develops software for this platform will want to make sure that the application users are using the optimal solaris 11 infrastructure. In solaris 11, oracle removed the word called patches from their dictionary. Over time, solaris zones have grown in popularity, thirdparty support has increased, and the technology has been enhanced continually to support new. Over time, solaris zones have grown in popularity, thirdparty support has increased, and the technology has been enhanced continually to support new and different kinds of features and con. In this case i would like to know while applying any patches on solaris 1.
This guide uses the term nonglobal zone to refer to a local zone. How can i patch a global zone without patching nonglobal zones. If you are planning to move the solaris 10 zones to solaris 11 global zones, this step by step procedure will help you. Oracle solaris 11 zone features transitioning from. You can migrate an oracle solaris 10 system or zone to a solaris10 zone on an oracle solaris 11 system in the following ways create a zone archive and use the archive to create an s10zone on the oracle solaris 11 system. 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. As a first step, download the recommended patch cluster from the my oracle support mos site.
This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. The patches for solaris site contains the fixlet content that allows for global and nonglobal whole root zones patching. The zonepath is moved to the target host, where it is attached. Solaris 11 zones are slightly different from solaris 10 zones. Jun 10, 2012 zfs patching with zones using lu liveupgrade in solaris. I need to check latest kernel version in solaris 10 container. Zfs patching with zones using lu liveupgrade in solaris.
Can i have different sru levels in non global zones. Just a small disclaimer, i never worked with solaris 10 branded zones. Oracle vm is only available as firmware on compatible sparc hardware and the hypervisor runs within the firmware. Uxadmin on july 25, 2007 how do you \know\ what you can delete. This flaw is not present on solaris 11 nor on solaris 10 with critical patches installed since. Do we need to patch on global zone or depends on the patch. 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. Hello, just fyi, we had another customer inquire about solaris 11 patching support, and whether or not it was coming in bsa 8.
The repository can also contain older or newer software, but it must contain the same software that is installed in the global zone. With zones one can use preconfigured, prepatched and stringently tested solaris images. Note oracle solaris 10 305 through oracle solaris 10 1106. This restriction is removed in the solaris 807 release. With solaris zones, you are sharing a kernel with the global zone. In oracle solaris 10, zones was introduced which gave us an ability to create isolated environments for applications that can run on a single machine. 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. Solaris zones parallel patching lildude solariszonesparallelpatching 20090619t17. How can i patch a non global zone without patching the global zone. Oct 26, 2011 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. To install a nonglobal zone, the repository that you set as the solaris publisher origin must contain at least the same system software that is installed in the global zone where you are installing the nonglobal zone. This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of. Below displays the resulting configuration info for the zones created by the previous commands. And when we are doing it online, it involves much more than just running patchadd commands.
Examine etczones directory to display zone configuration file. The next step in the process is to download the key and certificate for the oracle solaris 11 supported repository. Gaining access to the latest versions of solaris packages that is, patch updates requires a support contract to get access to a private repository. What is the recommended method to patch a solaris 11 non global zone. Jun 19, 2009 solaris zones parallel patching lildude solaris zones parallel patching 20090619t17. Mar 26, 2015 this article will talk about the oracle solaris 11. Hi all staff today i try to create zone on oracle solaris 11 but when i use command. Mar 02, 2016 what is the recommended method to patch a solaris 11 non global zone. For those of you managing solaris 11 servers with bsa how do you patch as bsa does not have the capability to patch solaris 11 and it does not appear to. 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.
The former can achieve the goals of the latter, and they also offer features not found in solaris 10 zones. You must be the global administrator in the global zone to perform this procedure. So if the solaris 11 release you are patching support solaris10 branded zones, you should be fine. But, since its a whole root zone, upgrade of solaris 11 global zone should have minimal to no effect to such zones. The directory etczones contains the configuration files for each zone by the zone name. The following are a few examples for the configuration of solaris 10 zones. Examining these files will show the show the configuration of the zones.
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