Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Solaris 10 patching issue i have a t5220 server and the patch level is. Once we get the approval, we can start our change in scheduled window. There is nothing in solaris 10 and earlier patches to identify the date, and this is on purpose. Patch for solaris users guide hcl software product. Preparing the configuration file for oracle solaris in the configuration file, you provide information that is used by the patch downloader utility. How to apply patches in singleuser mode to nodes with failover zones. Keep in mind sometimes this is not a fullproof solution you might have to hit the backup tapes also.
My question is, 1should i halt all nonglobal zone before beginning the installation or i. Perform instalation of the patch cluster on disk1 in. To remove the new oracle solaris cluster patch, see the. Oracle stopped updating solaris 10 recommended patch cluster. This information includes definition of a proxy server if one is used, identification of a local, temporary directory on the server that is used by the patch downloader utility during download. Removing a patch based on this, will make the situation much worse in all likelihood. Hi, i have solaris 10 sparc server with two nonglobal zoneone is whole zone and the other is sparse zone. I am trying to present the simple patching procedure when. Recommended patching strategy for oracle solaris 10. Jul 04, 2012 we have seen many post about solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade method. Because while installing the patches system is not only. Download solaris patch clusters from my oracle support. Solaris 10 os patching using lu live upgrade method.
Here we are going to see traditional os patching where your root filesystem is ufs. Oracle recommends that some patches, including cluster and kernel patches, be applied with the computer in. 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. 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. I was trying to upgrade to the latest patch level, but in single user mode while updating patch cluster i get. Coz this server might patch very long back so it will increase server maintenance downtime. If solaris live upgrade is being used, it can also be used to apply the recommended patch cluster. The recommended way to prevent problems with critical software, such as the operating system, is by using mirroring on the root file system, particularly by using solaris volume manager. Dear all, has oracle stopped updating solaris 10 recommended patch cluster. Regarding to oracle security alert cve list, we need to apply solaris recommended bundle patch instead of apply one by one patch. For recommended patch clusters, you can use the solaris 10. Perform instalation of the patch cluster on disk1 in case of success.
We are getting multiple requests for solaris kernel patching procedure from many of your gurkul followers. This last weekend saw the switch off of sunsolve and the migration of the old sun support system across to oracles my oracle support. We are planning to apply the latest recommended patch cluster solaris 10 1. You can either install or upgrade to a new oracle solaris 10 update. My guess is to do a flash archive pre patch and then install off of that if it doesnt work. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. However, it is a good idea to bring it to single user mode before applying the patch cluster. Need to check the current patch version on the server. Apply psu patch to standard cluster 12c written by askmlabs on wednesday, march 12, 2014 10. Using solaris live upgrade lu to patch cpu patch cluster. How to use mirrors to roll back system changes by admin with software volume management and a little preparation, it is possible to keep a temporary copy of the boot disk and roll back to it if needed. Apply latest solaris 10 os recommended patch cluster minimum amount of change to get critical solaris 10 os security, data corruption, and system availability fixes archived quarterly as the oracle solaris 10 critical patch update cpu enterprise installation standards eis includes a superset of the recommended patch cluster.
Click the link to activate the patchrm output property, which you use to view detailed results. I wonder if i could make patching without live upgrade in a following way. One of my customers is working on a product which can virtualize old solaris environments and run them on current, supported solaris platforms. Solaris live upgrade support 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. I am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgradingpatching solaris. 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. When applying the patch on the first cluster using opatchauto everything went fine until the trying to apply sql patch part on. Since solaris 10 1008, zfs can be used as zone root. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. System administrators can patch a system image rapidly without impacting the boot. On solaris 10, verify that the kernel parameters shown in the following table are set to values greater than or equal to the recommended value shown. One caveat is that you must pass the t option into patchadd using the o option to luupgrade, for example.
I signed up for that, but now i need an oracle support identifier. Please rollback the existing identical patch first. Unfortunately, one of the things lost was the incredible ease to locate and download patch clusters. It gives you unified, near realtime visibility and enforcement to deploy and manage patches to all solaris endpoints. I do have a mail relay i have to go through so i cant hit the outside world directly. Oracle solaris cluster and sun cluster patches and updates are now available on my oracle support information on accessing and using my oracle support can be found at the my oracle support welcome center for oracle sun customers and partners. Generally cpu os patch cluster will take more time to complete the patching activity dependence on the running kernel patch level. Mar 18, 2014 using solaris live upgrade lu to patch cpu patch cluster.
How to remove a nonrebooting oracle solaris cluster patch. Is it possible to identify a solaris 10 patch cluster from. Yesterday one of my customers wanted to patch two 2node clusters with the current psu october 2016 161018. 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. Why does it take so darn long over 80 minutes so far. Ibm bigfix provides a method for using local repositories to store patch updates for solaris 11.
How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. Here the global zone is part of veritas cluster and couple of zones are controlled by vcs and one zone is noncluster. Im unzipping the 98mb solaris 10 recommended patch cluster. The eis patch set provides the most important subset of patches based upon the solaris recommended patch cluster, whereas the solaris 10 508 patch bundle provides the equivalent set of patches to the solaris 10 508 update 5 release image, which is all the solaris patches which were available when the update was being built. Solaris 10 0508 update 5 patch bundle oracle solaris blog. Here a notes for solaris 10 patching update that can be used as reference and i hope it is useful. Oracle solaris cluster patches and previous releases. I am trying to present the simple patching procedure when our disks are under solaris volume manager control, svm. With the new zfs file system by solaris 10, this can be achieved with little effort. Does anyone know where i might find a copy of the latest recommended patch cluster for solaris 2. You do not need to be logged in as superuser to perform this procedure. To remove an oracle solaris cluster patch that youve applied to your cluster, you must first remove the new oracle solaris cluster patch, and then reapply the previous patch or update release. To uninstall solaris patches, use the patch rollback wizard.
File clobbering vulnerability in solaris 10 patch cluster 32720 larry w. So the other night i installed the solaris 10 patch cluster from december on a v490, reconfigured my file like i always have to after a patch cluster and i cant seem to get mail out of the box. Bigfix patch for solaris provides an automated, simplified patching process that is administered from a single console. Applets dying after installing patch cluster for solaris 10. Im hoping i dont have to go into each patch that was applied. 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.
Crossgrading redhat solaris 10 ldap authentication firefox v3 and cifs homedirs sge qmon fonts solaris patch breaks sshd x11 forwarding single clicks seen as double clicks gsisshterm opensuse yum rpm screw up ldap search and apache ldap authentication solaris patch rollback and varsadm diskpace usage firewall scripts nonworking qsub. Verify that the quorum device is not configured for one of the luns used as shared storage that is part of the disksets that contain the zone path that is manually taken in. Solaris os and veritas patching procedure with vcs unixarena. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. Datapatch stuck on rac psu october 2016 marcos dba blog. Click os vendors in the navigation tree, oracle solaris, and solaris patch rollback wizard. Check for any errors or warnings during the installation. Patching oracle solaris cluster software oracle solaris. How to apply a rebooting patch node how to apply a rebooting patch cluster how to apply a nonrebooting oracle solaris cluster patch. I think solaris 10 zones no need to stop while creating alternate abe and applying the patch. The oracle solaris 10 patch utility patches are 119254% sparc and 119255% x86x64. If you are able to regularly patch your systems, then apply the recommended patch cluster, which one can download if one has an oracle technology network login gratis which is tied to a valid support contract non gratis. Where can i find solaris patch clusters for solaris 2. Here a notes for solaris 10 patching update that can be used as reference.
Use the solaris patch rollback wizard to remove a patch package and restore previously. Enter a name and description such as recommended patch cluster solaris 10 single user mode. Sep 16, 2011 general procedure for kernel patching in solaris. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root. We have seen many post about solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade method. Singleuser mode patch application you must bring computers into singleuser mode to prepare them for kernellevel or clusterlevel patching.
For information about the available fixlet sites for solaris, see supported platforms and updates patch content caching must be done through the download plugin unless you are using an airgapped environment. A patch cluster contains a selected set of patches, conveniently wrapped for onestep installation. But we have to make sure backup everything include create zfs snapshot and splitting zfs mirror for rollback plan. Solaris 10 os patching using lu live upgrade method the. Jun 10, 2012 in our environment we have t34 model solaris 10 811 release running with solaris 10 and solaris 9 containers. If a failure occurs, you can quickly revert to the original boot environment with a simple reboot. Use this option if you want to download patches from the solaris maintenance site rather than the patches for solaris site. The patchrm command removes a solaris 10 patch package and restores previously saved filesrestoring the file system to its state before a patch was appliedunless any of the following four. Preparing the configuration file for oracle solaris. What is the easiest or preferred way to roll back the solaris cluster patches. Creating a baseline for singleuser mode create a baseline to modify a solaris patch fixlet for singleuser. Is there an easy way to roll back or uninstall the latest solaris patch cluster. We need to prepare patch document procedure with backout plan, and needs to get the approval by change management.
Jun 09, 2008 the solaris 10 508 patch bundle contains all the solaris patches which were available at the time the update release was being built, whereas the eis patch set is based upon the recommended patch cluster which is a relatively small subset containing the most critical solaris patches. Perform all steps of this procedure from a node of the global cluster. Sep 17, 2015 regarding to oracle security alert cve list, we need to apply solaris recommended bundle patch instead of apply one by one patch. This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. Dec 01, 2016 yesterday one of my customers wanted to patch two 2node clusters with the current psu october 2016 161018. This patch method is required if you use the oracle solaris cluster data service for solaris containers in a failover configuration with oracle solaris cluster software. Patch management for solaris supports zone patching on solaris 10 endpoints. Valid alternatives are to install the quarterly oracle solaris os critical patch update, which is an archived copy of the recommended patch cluster available from the same location, or the enterprise installation services eis patch set, which is a superset of the recommended patch cluster.
Solaris live upgrade software enables the operating system to continue to run while upgrades, patch installations, or routine maintenance operations are performed. Alternatively, for oracle solaris cluster systems, a rolling upgrade of the cluster nodes may be performed. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Zfs patching with zones using lu liveupgrade in solaris. To better understand bigfix patch for solaris, read the following questions and. I would like to patch the server by installing the recommended patch cluster from oracle solaris 10. May 19, 2009 solaris 10 patch return codes may 19, 2009 by gleb reys 4 comments 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. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. Perform these steps to get your system back to previous status.
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