After successfully installing the solaris oe on each cluster node and before you build the sun cluster software environment, you must perform the postinstallation and sitespecific procedures in this section to verify that the operating environment was configured correctly. Solaris volume manager svm command line reference cheat. There are a couple of slices on each disk that i would like to amalgamate together to create one slice metadisk i would like to use solstice disksuite as i have a bit of experience with the gui etc, but after much searching around on the cds. Please list command and specific directory that patches should the unix and linux forums. I am not happy to post nontechnical posts on unixarena. I am seeking help to add patches to solaris 10 on 64 bit sparc server. It is best used as an example or reference rather than a complete learning tool. Solaris advanced system administrators guide, second edition. 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. Confidential, nj 0510 0511 solaris linux administrator. Confidential, nj 05 10 0511 solaris linux administrator. Refer to appendix a for information about volume management and mounting cds. Pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches. Notes on disaster recovery of solaris boxes using sun disksuite package general musings and departmentally specific background.
Jul 02, 2015 solaris volume managersolstice disksuite. Solstice disksuite soft partitions not hard at all dr dobbs. This page contains some notes on how to recover from failed disks, etc. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and 298 other security bugs mega load of updates lands for tons of big red gear by. 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. New solaris 10 os patches are now available from mos by the tuesday closest to 17th of each month. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. If you have solstice disksuite software patches to install, do not reboot after you. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Traditional method non live upgrade by admin this post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of. Following are the minimum required packages sunwmdr solstice disksuite drivers root sunwmdu solstice disksuite commands. Following are the minimum required packages sunwmdr solstice disksuite drivers root sunwmdu solstice disksuite commands sunwmdx solstice disksuite drivers. Cisco media gateway controller software installation and. Effectively use solstice disksuite or veritas volume manager to manage your boot disk.
Solaris 10 has a new feature boot m verbose which allows you to customize boot console output. Systems running earlier versions of solaris must be upgraded to solaris 8 before solstice disksuite 4. This section provides information and procedures to install and configure solstice disksuite or solaris volume manager software. Even if you think that youll not use disksuite, do create the slice, as its a small. We recently got a third party in to upgrade our solaris 8 sparc server to solaris 10. The first step to setting up mirroring using disksuite is to install the disksuite packages and any necessary patches for systems prior to solaris 9. Rebooting from the mirrored secondary disk on sparcbased platforms 83. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware.
Starting the solaris 9, disksuite is now included with the operating system. Getting solaris 10 patches with smpatch, pca and oracle. Hi, i have solaris 10 sparc server with two nonglobal zoneone is whole zone and the other is sparse zone. Solaris volume manager soft partitioning explained softpanorama. How would i add a kernel patch to a jumpstart image. At the time of this writing, solaris 8 is the most commonly deployed version of solaris, so. Limitations exist with certain device drivers in solaris 10 os 65 dvdromcdrom drives on headless systems 66 6 solaris 10 release notes january 2005 10 61 61.
Solstice disksuite soft partitions not hard at all dr. If you have solstice disksuite software patches to install, do not reboot after you install the solstice disksuite software. Installing and configuring solstice disksuite or solaris. Boot disk management examines the life cycle of the solaris operating environment oe and its boot disk. This document provides the stepbystep procedure, to install and maintain the solaris volume manager, in a solaris 10 os for x86 platforms environment for sun firetm x64 platforms. After quite successful evaluation of running mysql on solaris 10 we decided to move all our. Solaris volume manager formerly solstice disksuite is a software raid package for solaris. Installing and configuring solstice disksuitesolaris. Download pca for system registered with oracle csi. Selecting the best method for adding signed patches. This is to prepare the server for the installation of oracle 10g. By matthew cheek, february 26, 2003 the sun solaris operating environment oe is a mature implementation of unix that runs both on sun sparc and intel x86 architecture hardware. In 2010, after the sun acquisition by oracle, it was renamed oracle solaris. Install solstice disksuite with jumpstart oracle community.
Recommendations and methods for selecting hardware and partitioning the solaris oe boot disk are. Solaris linux administrator resume nj hire it people. Solaris volume manager formerly known as solstice disksuite is a tool for disk. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. When you add a disk drive to a diskset, solstice disksuite solaris volume manager repartitions the disk drive as follows so that the state database for the diskset can be placed on the disk drive. And since youre using a sparc system, are you sure you dont have a valid support contract.
Sunwmd solstice disksuite sunwmdg solstice disksuite tool sunwmdn solstice disksuite log daemon patch no. Solaris volume manager, in a solaris 10 os for x86 platforms environment for. Solstice disksuitesolaris volume manager sdssvm here is a nice soft partitioning doc for disksuitesvm the only other docs are the man pages. Im trying to find out a way to display the latest patches installed in a solaris box. Emc host connectivity guide for oracle solaris dell technologies. Disksuite was released as an addon product for sunos in late 1991. These instructions are written with solaris 9 and previous in mind. Solaris advanced system administrators guide, second. Installing the opteronbased solaris 10 patches package cscoh032 72. Ive been trying to find from where i can download patchesupdates. Installing and configuring solstice disksuite or solaris volume. A sysadmins unixersal translator rosetta stone or what do they call that in this world.
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. Customers would like to install latest os patch bundles to keep their systems update to date. Sunhsis, starsuite, solstice disksuite, and solaris are trademarks or registered trademarks. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgradingpatching solaris. The solaris oe post installation and configuration.
Apache web server in this example was compiled from sources on solaris 10. Installed and configured solaris 10 by using jumpstart serverjet server and also installed and configured linux by using kickstart server. 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. Installing and configuring solstice disksuite or solaris volume manager software. But i felt this post will be helpful for solaris administrators to find the latest os patch bundles from oracle. Theres only four such patchsets a year and this is quite handy for rolling baselines when you plan to patch all of your solaris 10 servers in a particular. Those of you still on solaris 10 may want to download the latest recommended patchset for solaris 10 which was published just last week, on 28th of january 2016. To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here. But, solaristm operating systemos also gives the flexibility to mirror the root disk using solaristm volume managersvm, in solaris 10 os. Installing the sparcbased solaris 10 patches package cscoh022 70. As unix admin, we have to provide those patch bundles information to. Enhance system reliability with reference configurations effectively use solstice disksuite or veritas volume manager to manage your boot disk speed system recovery operationsboot disk management examines the life cycle of the solaris operating environment oe and its boot disk. With oracle, you need a roadmap on how to find the latest cpu or recommended patch cluster from oracle.
If you installed solaris 9 or solaris 10 software, solaris volume manager is. Involved user administration creating user account,password and set the password on red hat linux and solaris. Sep 12, 20 weve recently moved to a monthly release cadence for solaris 10 os patches. You can skip certain procedures under the following conditions. 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. Recommendations and methods for selecting hardware and partitioning the solaris oe boot disk are presented in detail.
Solaris is a nonfree unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. Suns own www site, contains pointers to sunsites and patches and has lots of info, press. Apr 19, 2017 oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool and 298 other security bugs mega load of updates lands for tons of big red gear by iain thomson in san francisco 19 apr 2017 at 00. This version of pca patch check advanced allows to maintain solaris os patches using oracle solaris premier subscriptions and oracle csi account instead of the sunsolve account with sun contract. But, solaris tm operating systemos also gives the flexibility to mirror the root disk using solaris tm volume managersvm, in solaris 10 os. A few month later i now have a disk mirror problem that i would normally fix by going into the gui screen metatool it appears that the third party didnt install disksuite after the upgrade. This document provides the steps involved for installing solstice disksuite 4. If your system is running volume management, the cd is mounted automatically. If you have solstice disksuite software patches to install, do not reboot after you install. A small portion of each disk drive is reserved in slice 7 for use by solstice disksuitesolaris volume manager software.
Installation of solaris 8 0202 any cluster required. Unix my first love check veritas volume manager version. Feature descriptions for solaris 9 management tools 25 feature descriptions for solaris 8 management tools 26 availability of solaris management commands 27 solaris 10 system management commands 28 solaris 8 system management commands 29 for more information about solaris management tools 29 2 working with the solaris management console tasks 31. On solaris 10, the solaris patch 12022206 is a minimum version that has. If you installed solaris 9 or solaris 10 software, solaris volume manager is already installed. In 2010, after the sun acquisition by oracle, it was renamed oracle solaris solaris is known for its scalability, especially on sparc systems, and for originating many innovative features such as dtrace, zfs and time slider. Hi there im not sure if this is the right forum to post in but here is my problem.
In solaris, how to check the number of users currently logged in. Solaris volume manager svm command line reference cheat sheet. Solaris 10 1008 also includes virtualization enhancements including the ability for a solaris container to automatically update its environment when moved from one system to another. Solaris 10 patches now on monthly release cadence oracle. Sun cluster system administration guide for solaris os. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool. However, the soft partitioning functionality was released in patch 10869306 for sds 4. Since there is currently only a single sun server in physics, we are addressing a specific. Solaris linux administrator resume nj hire it people we.
Chapter 4, latebreaking solaris patches, provides a list of patches that. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use. Loading the sun solaris 10 operating environment 286 installing the sparcbased solaris 10 patches package cscoh022 286 installing the opteronbased solaris 10 patches package cscoh032 289 installing the solstice disksuite cscoh023 292 rebooting from the mirrored secondary disk on sparcbased platforms 2100. Does anyone know where i can download disksuite for solaris 10. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Dec 27, 2001 enhance system reliability with reference configurations effectively use solstice disksuite or veritas volume manager to manage your boot disk speed system recovery operationsboot disk management examines the life cycle of the solaris operating environment oe and its boot disk. Solstice disksuite is a free raid volume manager from sun microsystems. The updated solaris 10 os recommended patchset will be available by the next day, wednesday, assuming there are new patches released which meet its inclusion criteria. 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. At the time of this writing, solaris 8 is the most commonly deployed version of solaris, so well use that as the basis for this example.
Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgrading patching solaris. Nov 27, 2006 the first step to setting up mirroring using disksuite is to install the disksuite packages and any necessary patches for systems prior to solaris 9. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. I would like to patch the server by installing the recommended patch cluster from oracle solaris 10. Solaris 9 svm name changes now solaris volume manager, soft partitions introduced, backported to 4. Aug 21, 20 i am not happy to post nontechnical posts on unixarena. When you add a disk drive to a diskset, solstice disksuitesolaris volume manager repartitions the disk drive as follows so that the state database for the diskset can be placed on the disk drive. This article describes the method of mirroring a boot drive using solstice disksuite via the command line. A small portion of each disk drive is reserved in slice 7 for use by solstice disksuite solaris volume manager software.
Installing and configuring solstice disksuitesolaris volume. Earlier it has global is solaris 10, container is 10. Weve recently moved to a monthly release cadence for solaris 10 os patches. Solstice disksuite soft partitions not hard at all. By default solaris 10 have no named make utility, its have gmake. With solaris 8, disksuite moved to the solaris 8 software cdrom number two, in the ea directory. This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the. Please list command and specific directory that patches should. Installing the sparcbased solaris 10 patches package cscoh022 installing the opteronbased solaris 10 patches package cscoh032 installing the solstice disksuite cscoh023 rebooting from the mirrored secondary disk. Correct, its not possible to get solaris 10 patches with out a valid support contract. Solaris volume manager soft partitioning explained.
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