The system administration for the oracle solaris 10 os, part 1 course helps students gain expertise in the basic system administration concepts of oracle solaris 10. On the day of writing, the newest version of solaris 10 is u11 1 and cluster for solaris 10 is 3. Installing this patch set to an alternate boot environment first requires the live boot environment to have patch utilities and other prerequisite patches at the same or higher patch revisions as those delivered by this patch set. In most cases it is fine to apply the patch cluster in a system running in multiuser mode. The example system we will be using has svm based mirrored root. The alternative boot environment is like shadow copy of the original boot file system so you have two posibility. How to apply os kernel patch on solaris 10 server which. Introducing the basics of image packaging system ips on. System administration for the solaris 10 os part 2 ed 1. Solaris live upgrade known issues that frequently fails the. However, in solaris 10, it now becomes a tremendous tool for patching. Hi i have a sun m4000 with 1 global and 4 nonglobal zones running solaris.
Upgrading a boot environment oracle solaris 10 811. This article is going to explain that how to update the solaris 11. This book will explain how to select a boot device, partition and lay out a filesystem, select and use a volume manager, and. 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. Installation took a total of 3 hours and 58 minutes plus 3 reboots see the patch bundle readme for an explanation of the reboots. 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. In oracle solaris 11, the beadm utility replaces the lu set of commands for managing zfs bes. In oracle solaris 11, the pkg update command is used to update a be, or. Oracle technical paperoracle solaris 10 recommended patching strategy 14. It can be done by using beadm command to create and activate the new boot environment which is cloned.
With live upgrade lu, the operating system is replicated in an alternate boot environment abe and all of the changes patches, upgrades, whatever are done to the copy of the os while the os is running, rather than taking the system down to apply maintenance. Ill try to answer your questions about solaris smf. The solaris 10 0508 patch bundle will not suit everyone. Many of our solaris 10 systems are old and filesystems like var and usr usrlocal and opt etc are all dumped under root filesystem in the global zone. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgradingpatching solaris. Architecture for package sunwnxge from directory sunwnxge.
I am in process of applying solaris recommended patch cluster via live upgrade. Update 11 for solaris 10 is probably last release of solaris 10 and has some new features, which are not available if you only patching a system with. This is called an alternate boot environment abe you can apply patches to your abe during the day and activate it when you have scheduled downtime by simply issuing a luactivate command and rebooting. Once patched, the new boot partition can be booted. This solaris 10 patching best practices course reference guide is a supplement to the webbased training course ws2700s10. Previously, you could perform a live upgrade or use the patchadd command to update your be. I would always recommend using the c option to lucreate to label your current boot environment.
I am trying to present the simple patching procedure when our disks are under solaris volume manager control, svm. 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. Pca can be used in combination with live upgrade to analyze or install patches in an inactive boot environment. The benefits of using solaris live upgrade are the following. Many of our solaris 10 systems are old and filesystems like var and usr usrlocal and opt etc are all dumped under root filesystem in the. Example 4 10 creating a boot environment with a mirror and not specifying a submirror name. In oracle solaris 11, the pkg update command is used to update a be, or you can use the beadm command set to create, display, and remove bes. In solaris 11, oracle removed the word called patches from their dictionary. Using the luactivate command to activate the new boot environment or fallback to the original boot environment. In this case i would like to know while applying any patches on solaris 1. Restrictions on using patchadd r to create an alternate.
I assigned the metadevice d3 to hold the second boot environment. Installing this patch set to an alternate boot environment first requires the live boot environment to have patch utilities and other prerequisite patches at the same or higher patch revisions as those delivered. Installation took a total of 3 hours and 58 minutes plus 3 reboots see the patch bundle readme for an explanation of the reboots when patching an active boot environment. The system administration for the oracle solaris 10 os, part 1 course helps students gain expertise in the basic. In todays post ill be talking about a procedure for patching solaris server having zones installed on it using live upgrade functionality. If you choose zfs for your root disk, then the upgrade procedure is fairly straightforward because solaris live upgrade can create an alternate boot environment on the existing root zpool. Sep 16, 2011 general procedure for kernel patching in solaris. Unix my first love oraclesolaris patching using live upgrade.
Remove a singleslice concatenation submirror from a raid1 volume mirror. By default, if run without any option or operand, pca shows. The advantage of applying patches to an alternate boot environment for example, using oracle solaris live upgrade is that such special install instructions are not applicable and can be safely ignored. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Use lumount to mount the be and pcas rootdir option to set the alternative root. Use the solaris live upgrade tool to manage system downtime and risk when installing. For sparc based systems install at least revision 19 of patch 119254.
Creating a new boot environment with the lucreate command. I am running this cluster in single user mode after that i. The system administration for the oracle solaris 10 os, part 2 course helps you gain expertise in the advanced system administration concepts of oracle solaris 10. I have solaris10 sparc box with zfs filesystem, which is running two non global zones. This clone is listed as an alternate boot environment in the grub menu for x86 systems or in the boot menu for sparc. With the release of oracle solaris 10 10 08 it is possible to boot from an oracle solaris zfsmanaged pool. If you want to create a backup of an existing boot environment, for example, prior to modifying the original boot environment, you can use the beadm command to create and mount a new boot environment that is a clone of your active boot environment. This course builds on the fundamentals of oracle solaris 10 taught in oracle solaris 10 essentials. Each logical volume manager is given 2 chapters of coverage on the configuration and maintenance of a solaris boot disk environment. The boot disk management blueprint focuses on the boot diskof the solaris operating environment oe and serves as a replacement for thesun blueprints book titled, guide to high availability, configuring boot root swap. To start the process, we create the boot environments by running the lucreate the command. If the your rootdisk is mirrored using veritas or svm. It can be done by using beadm command to create and activate the new boot environment which is cloned from the active boot environment. Upgrade full solaris release andor start the patching process live.
When you create a boot environment, live upgrade uses solaris volume manager technology to create raid1 volumes. Therefore, if you are using live upgrade to upgrade a system from the solaris 8 or solaris 9 os to the oracle solaris 10 os, you must first activate the oracle solaris 10 boot environment before patching. In this example, the mount points for the file systems are specified by using the m option. On a sun sparc r system, booting from an alternate boot disk requires eeprom settings to be changed. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. The root file system is mirrored with in the internal disks and the home filesystems are on nfs mounted external storage. With live upgrade lu, the operating system is replicated in an alternate boot environment abe and all of the changes. The rest of this book focuses on using vertias volume manager and sun solstice disksuite software to build robust boot disks environments. Nov 29, 2016 solaris 10 q4, 2016 patching instructions 1.
In this article will show you how to create and activate new boot environment in oracle solaris 11. Creating an alternate boot environment on a svm softpartition. This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. Note that each solaris release consists of a single source base. Oct 10, 2011 in todays post ill be talking about a procedure for patching solaris server having zones installed on it using live upgrade functionality. Jun 18, 20 using a separate var file system for nonglobal zones is not supported in solaris 10.
After the oracle solaris 10 boot environment is activated, you can either patch the active boot environment directly or set up another inactive boot environment and patch that one by using live upgrade. The versions of ssh and sendmail that ship with solaris 10 will automatically use tcp wrappers to filter access if a hosts. This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason. How to create a live upgrade boot environment solaris commands. To start the process, we create the boot environments by running the. Managing boot environments transitioning from oracle. Solaris live upgrade consists of a set of tools that enable users to create an alternate boot environment that is a mirror copy of the current boot partition and then patch the newly created boot partition prior to making it live. How to create and activate new boot environment in oracle. How to upgrade and patch with oracle solaris live upgrade. I applied the patch bundle to the active boot environment.
Solaris 11 uses separate var file systems for nonglobal zones by default. Patching best practices for the solaris 10 os with sam. When creating a boot environment, you can use live upgrade to manage the following tasks. However, if you choose ufs, then you must have the same number of slices available as your existing root disk has, which usually means using a separate disk.
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. Creating a new boot environment oracle solaris 10 811. 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. Youll get a handson experience working with more complex and integrated administration concepts.
The guide presents the key concepts of the course but it does not contain all the content presented in the course itself. Solaris 11 ips handon lab boot environments the geek diary. Live upgrade with solaris 10 issues solutions experts exchange. In my case i have solaris 10 production server, with 3 non global zones. Using a separate var file system for nonglobal zones is not supported in solaris 10. Pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches. We can boot into different boot environments according to our need.
System administration for the oracle solaris 10 os part 2 new. This figure describes the commands for the solaris live upgrade process. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgrading patching solaris. Jul 29, 2011 however, in solaris 10, it now becomes a tremendous tool for patching. Patch management for solaris supports zone patching on solaris 10 endpoints.
How to create a live upgrade boot environment solaris. Each logical volume manager is given 2 chapters of coverage on. However, it is a good idea to bring it to single user mode before applying the patch cluster. This is called an alternate boot environment abe you can apply patches to your abe during the day and activate it when you have scheduled downtime by simply issuing a luactivate command and rebooting with init 6. Though i have enough space in root filesystem of both zones, everytime i run installcluster, it fails with complaining less space but in alternate be. No download pkgs files xfer mb speed completed 11 33 0. Patching best practices for the solaris 10 os with sam the sysadmin december 2009. Disk space for the second boot environment under oracle solaris zfs. Also with that oracle solaris release, the oracle solaris live upgrade tools have been modified to work in an oracle solaris zfs environment. Example 410 creating a boot environment with a mirror and not specifying a submirror name. Solaris live upgrade consists of a set of tools that enable users to create an alternate boot environment that is a mirror copy of the current boot partition and then patch the newly created boot partition prior. First verify both the disk are healthy rootdisk and mirrordisk boot with rootdisk and break the disk mirrors of mirrordisk. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris.
On a sun x64 system, the alternate boot disk can be added. I have few queries in case of patch implementation in solaris 10 os with zone environment. Boot environments in solaris 11 are multiple images with different kernel, software applications and packages. Applying patches to the new boot environment with the luupgrade command. Trying to install solaris recommended patch cluster. If you are running the solaris 10 initial 305 release, you can install the following patch to enable the use of commands that accept the r option for creation of an alternate root path. In this example, this will be the current boot environment. Note that this does not apply if you are applying the patch cluster to an alternate boot environment. The command to manage boot environments in solaris is beadm. Mount the current boot environment root slice to some directory like mnt. Solaris 10 kernel patching q2 2018 a man page a day keeps. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem.
Solaris 10 0508 update 5 patch bundle oracle solaris blog. Creating a boot environment creating and administering. The latter option is particularly useful in an environment using sunoracle servers without a graphics. Boot the machine to single user mode using a different boot device like the solaris install cd or network. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade. I have solaris 10 sparc box with zfs filesystem, which is running two non global zones. The boot disk management blueprint focuses on the boot diskof the solaris operating environment oe and serves as a replacement for thesun blueprints book titled, guide to high.
I want to use patching to inactive boot environment method and need urgent assistance. As with solaris 10, the boot menu grub lets you choose an install over a local terminal or serial ports. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Administer and maintain solaris server environment. Use the solaris live upgrade tool to manage system downtime and risk when installing patches on alternate boot environments on solaris 9 and 10 computers. Managing your oracle solaris cluster environment installing. Commands to build the boot disk environments are demonstrated using each lvm. On a sun x64 system, the alternate boot disk can be added to the grub boot menu, or the bootpath can be redefined in the eeprom without changing the grub configuration. Jun 09, 2008 i applied the patch bundle to the active boot environment. As a result, the developers are working on a cumulative set of all previous changes.
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