Solaris 10 106 known internally as u1 added the grub bootloader for x86 systems, iscsi initiator support and fcinfo commandline tool. Before i install it, my task is to find out what os patches have already installed on the box. Solaris 9 exiting extended support period oracle solaris. Use the fixlets on the various solaris sites to apply oracle patches and updates to your deployment. In this case, the patches are in the vartmp patches directory. Change to the directory that contains the downloaded patch package, if necessary. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. However it appears you dont need solaris 10 patches since youre running solaris express.
Check the hba fcinfo command sparc t54 server product notes. Oracle solaris certification and support hewlett packard enterprise. One of my customers is working on a product which can virtualize old solaris environments and run them on current, supported solaris platforms. Emc host connectivity guide for oracle solaris dell technologies. Can i create a disk that will have all the updatespatches and just run it once and not sit and update one by one. Unfortunately, one of the things lost was the incredible ease to locate and download patch clusters.
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. It provides command line tools and guis for managing users, resources, and disk storage. Need to relogin when the computer goes into screen saver or is unattended for a while on solaris 9 kb7555. I just patched a new install of solaris 8 on a sparc box. You can even run solaris 10 guest domains under a solaris 11 control domain and run solaris 8 and solaris 9 branded zones in your solaris 10 guest domains if you really want to. Qlogic driver download fibre channel adapters solaris solaris. Unable to login as root after upgrade to centrify suite 2016 cdc 5.
Oracle grid control failed to run a job using service account from active directory on solaris, hpux kb1715. In 2010, after the sun acquisition by oracle, it was renamed oracle solaris. Obsolete patches, incompatibilities, superseded patches, or other requirements. Volume manager on solaris, patch detail sort veritas. The cfgadm command can be used to view the system attachment points which are broadly defined as the location of certain hardware resources visible to solaris. 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. So you could clean the save directory for 10966704 when 109667 hits say rev 07. Ok, so you have a solaris 10 host with san connected storage how do you make sense of the luns you can see. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. How to identify the hba cardsports and wwn in solaris. Solaris 10 container deployed from solaris 10 global zone to solaris 11 global zone.
Solaris 9 sparc driver qlc, 142, download the solaris 9 sparc patch by logging in with your oracle online. They also collect data on any fibre channel targets that might be connected to those ports in a storage area network san. Say something like clean up save folders for patch rev obsolete patches after patch is two revisions ahead. After that, therell be no new solaris 8 or solaris 9 patches created. For brevity sake i am dividing this into a number of posts. Adding a solaris patch system administration guide.
Branded zones are solaris 8 or solaris 9 containers created in a solaris 10 global zone. Use the patchadd command to add patches to servers or standalone systems. Check the hba fcinfo commandif the older version of the hba is installed, the output looks like this. This last weekend saw the switch off of sunsolve and the migration of the old sun support system across to oracles my oracle support. Downloading hba driver packages and patches for solaris 8 and 9 for sparc. Unfortunately, one of the things lost was the incredible ease to locate and download. 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. Download solaris patch clusters from my oracle support lildude howtodownloadsolarispatchclustersfrommyoraclesupport 20101214t07. Typically, when applying the recommended patch bundle, the system will start to apply a patch for a driver that you dont have in the system example, for a gigabit ethernet card and youve never installed one, so the patch program will exit with one of these codes indicating this patch has a prerequisite you didnt meet. Welcome to hpes interactive oracle solaris support and certification webpage for.
As we are a contract customer, we are running a local patch server, and. The patch program is a script, you can read the script to find out. Hello guysnewbie to solaris here i need to get this patch on my solaris 10 sparc machine. In solaris 11, oracle removed the word called patches from their dictionary. This should give you just a few hits such as 12361104 which you can then go to sunsolve and find patches for, or at least find out the latest recommended level, bug lists, etc. With rapid7 live dashboards, i have a clear view of all the assets on my network, which ones can be exploited, and what i need to do in order to reduce the risk in my environment in realtime. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware. Anyone know what these mean, or where i can find this information. Sun blade 100150 flash prom update 11129217 obsoleted by. Pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches. Depending on the size of your system, the patch process can take over an hour to complete. By default any nonglobal zone shares the global zone kernel and has same characteristics as the global zone kernel. Patch organizer patch converter jd800 jd990 free patches 61 bank total jd800 factory patches converted to jd990.
Solaris patch manager offers the most comprehensive patch management features for the solaris os. But in case of branded zone, brandz framework extends the solaris zones infrastructure to include the creation of brands, which in turn can. After the patch or patches are download successfully, you can close the web browser. How to find fiber host bus adapter fiber hba wwn on solaris. Patch content caching must be done through the download plugin unless you are using an airgapped environment.
It can be the only tool you ever need for patch management, be it on a single machine or a complete network. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. 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. The solaris patch manager tool, a fullfeatured patch management tool, also provides details regarding patches. Can i create a disk that will have all the updates patches. Correct, its not possible to get solaris 10 patches with out a valid support contract. Patch check advanced pca generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads patches. If you need to add a patch to a diskless client system, see patching diskless client os services when you add a patch, the patchadd command calls the pkgadd command to install the patch packages from the patch directory to a local systems disk. Identifying hba cards and wwn numbers in solaris 8, 9, 10 and 11. Useful stuff i hope, at least to me, because while we all love fiber storage, before.
Solaris 10 1106 u3 added solaris trusted extensions and logical domains sun4v. If you only have oraclesun branded hba hardware on server then you can. I need to check latest kernel version in solaris 10 container. That is, theres one set of patches for solaris 8, a separate set of patches for solaris 9, and another set of patches for solaris 10. Scott lynn put together a very informative blog on solaris 10. We have the oss and can install them, thats no problem. Im trying to find out a way to display the latest patches installed in a solaris box. As we are a contract customer, we are running a local patch server, and use that as our primary source of patches.
It does not necessarily apply to some applications embedded in solaris, such as staroffice. Solaris 10 910 u9 added physical to zone migration, zfs triple parity raidz and oracle solaris auto registration. Patch cluster install script for solaris 9 recommended patch cluster. Oct 14, 20 fcinfo is a command line interface that collects administrative information on fibre channel host bus adapter hba ports on a host. The 4 most commonly used commands are fcinfo hbaport, prtpicl, luxadm e port and prtdiag. Sparc patch list oracle solaris 10 910 patch list oracle docs. For information about the available fixlet sites for solaris, see supported platforms and updates. Now i need to know how to check latest kernel version in solaris 10 container.
What tools can be used to interrogate the storage and build a mental image of what you have been presented with. Click on a recommended patch cluster based on the solaris release running on the system to be patched. Where can i find solaris patch clusters for solaris 2. Of course to do this, we need to run an assortment of old solaris platforms, and by old i mean solaris 2. Can i create a disk that will have all the updates patches and just run it once and not sit and update one by one. Solaris is a nonfree unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. Text in this file my theory is can mess finding new luns in solaris 10. How to identify the hba cardsports and wwn in solaris the. There is a solaris 10 command called fcinfo that will give you more information on your fibre devices. During the patch quite a few patches failed with return code 2,8, or 5. Latest solaris 10 patch bundles i dont know if its just my own ignorance or oracle purposely obfuscating the latest patch bundles for solaris but i recently had a hell of a time finding the january 2017 patch bundle for solaris 10. This article is going to explain that how to update the solaris 11. Each marketing release of solaris has its own set of patches.
Here are some useful commands for the most popular linuxunix operating systems to find your hba wwn. It also collects data on any fibre channel targets that may be connected to those ports in a storage area network san. For information about the available fixlet sites for solaris, see supported platforms and updates patch content caching must be done through the download plugin. Hi unix experts, im told to install websphere mq on sun 5. Does anyone know the easiestquickest way to search all the available solaris 9 patches to find out if they update a certain library or not. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Solaris 10 update 9 with patch 14648905 is the miniimum version that has been. Two commands you can use in case one is not available sponsored links sponsored links fcinfo hbaport prtpicl v c scsifcp. The solaris 9 os provides a wide range of administration tools that assist both user and system administration tasks. Another tool, sun patch check, can be run to obtain a listing of available patches, but provides little diagnostic capabilities. I tried pkginfo i command but it gives all of the packages installed. Installingupgrading san patchespackages aka sfs, san foundation. The following applies to core solaris packages and patches.
Command usage for fcinfo must be root to get results from this command, it wont return an error, just the message. The single and dual port hbas are supported on the sun solaris 8 and 9. Running cfgadm with the al option will list these attachment points. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. Ase certifications on solaris sparc sap ase community wiki. It resolves dependencies between patches and installs them in correct order. Check the hba fcinfo command if the older version of the hba is installed, the output looks like this. 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.