Patch management for solaris 10 server oracle community. As per the compatibility matrix, solaris 10 update 8 is required as a. Sru to fmri mapping pascal kreyeroracle may 11, 2015 5. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 10 host. One or more solaris patch fixlets available in the patches for solaris site. Experienced solaris users may remember the old maintenance updates mu which we shipped for solaris 8 and older releases. Easier system administration with service management facility. This article is going to explain that how to update the solaris 11. A security vulnerability in solaris 10 nfs xdr handling. 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.
Unfortunately the old problem ive mentioned multiple times before is showing up again, too. For information about the available fixlet sites for solaris, see supported platforms and updates patch content caching must be done through the download plugin. The post below explain the image package system in oracle solaris 11, and. This article documents several general configuration parameters that apply to any solaris environment. Solaris operating system service management facility how to.
These patches were applied when the solaris 10 os was created. Many of the new patches for solaris 10 are unavailable on suns patch server, so pca will fail to download them. Pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. Installing the required oracle solaris 10 patches oracle.
Dec 11, 2010 in fact, oracle has migrated all sun servers hosting solaris patches to its own servers. Youre running the orginal solaris 10 general release then you applied update patches. Service management facility was first introduced in solaris 10 for managing system and application services. Is it possible to identify a solaris 10 patch cluster from. Fmri every ips package is represented by a fault management resource identifier fmri that consists of a publisher, a name, and a version, with the scheme pkg. Solaris 10 remote x11,xserver or cde login problem aziz. Correct, its not possible to get solaris 10 patches with out a valid support contract. Solaris 10 1008 operating system patch list solaris 10. For the sparc m10, the default label for root pool disks with xcp 2230 or later is efi gpt. 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. I have started aka in 2009 as my own personal reference blog, and later sometime i have realized that my leanings might be helpful for other unixadmins if i manage my knowledgebase in more user friendly format. A beginners guide to service management facility smf in solaris. Patches released after the solaris 10 1008 release can be found on the my oracle support. Basic administration you can also use these components or products.
Jan 22, 2017 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. 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. My understanding is that showrev p would show patches but not the date they were installed. Earlier it has global is solaris 10, container is 10.
For solaris 10 patches, use the unzip command to extract the patch files, as follows. The showrev p command provides a list of all patches that were applied to the installed system, regardless of how they were applied. Performing a solaris 11 patch analysis documentation for. This is a short overview of solaris 10 kernel patches. The smserver service should be enabled or disabled as appropriate cce42408. Scott lynn put together a very informative blog on solaris 10 extended support detailing the benefits that customers can get by. Solaris 10 1008 operating system patch list solaris 10 10.
Presumably, it is not yet integrated into the oracle support portal and solaris system utilities. To better understand bigfix patch for solaris, read the following questions and. Show applied patches or check for a specific patch in solaris. With smf, system administrators can use simple command line utilities to easily identify, observe, and manage both the services provided by the system and the system itself. A simple solaris live upgrade procedure involves below 4 steps. Patch for solaris users guide hcl software product. The files and directories used to managetroubleshoot and configure smf are. A summary of all services can be obtained by running. Revisions prior to 04 of the above listed patches do not list bug 6458704 in the readmes, however, this discrepancy is limited to the readme. Run the enable nfs support solaris 10 task to enable the nfs protocol.
A security vulnerability in solaris 10 nfs xdr handling may. The following are the steps to set up smf for apache 2 on solaris 10. The patches that are listed in this chapter have been applied to the solaris 10 operating system in one of the following ways. Updates to oracle solaris 11 are provisioned using package updates called support repository updates srus instead of patches. However, patches cannot be backed out of the solaris 10 release. This replaces the legacy init scripts and other startup scripts. The solaris 10 10 08 patch list provides a list of patches preapplied to the solaris 10 10 08 release. They should be stopped and started by running the rc script directly. Solaris live upgrade enables system administrators to create and upgrade a boot environment that is initially inactive, without affecting the running system. You can add a persistent or nonpersistent share with different access levels.
It uses the older traditional singleuser mode for applying patches for cpu and recommended patch clusters. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. Short guide to install oracle 10 on sun solaris 10. It also describes how to use this information to determine the solaris os release installed on a system or contained within a solaris jumpstart software server image. Oraclesolaris 11 image packaging system main command ips. The patches for solaris site includes legacy solaris 10 and earlier core os patch content. Here is the procedure we followed to modify the kernel parameters on solaris 10 oracle 10. For recommended patch clusters, you can use the solaris 10. The solaris 10 software includes a known and tested level of patches.
Every ips package is represented by a fault management resource identifier fmri that consists of a publisher, a name, and a version, with the scheme pkg. 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. The versions of ssh and sendmail that ship with solaris 10 will automatically use tcp wrappers to filter access if a hosts. Analysis of the oracle solaris configuration, including networking, storage, and oracle solaris operating system features in use. Fmd doesnt have all its dependances loaded in the service framework db. So you may need to stick with older version of operating system in a order to support the legacy applications. Package management task, ips command, oracle solaris 10 equivalent. Mohammed, if your solaris version is solaris 9, then the problem with xmanager closed immediately is a bug in solaris patch 11296062 solaris 9. The sun patch page provides all the patches for your specific system configuration.
Both sparcbased and x86based versions of solaris are covered in this course. For a limited time sunsolve will provide access to all solaris 10 patches. Determining oracle solaris 11 os package update version. Solaris fault manager solaris service manager smf5 solaris fault manager provides detection and diagnosis of errors, leading to isolation or deactivation of faulty components and precise, accurate administrative messaging. How to migrate solaris 10 global zone into solaris 11. Login to solaris 10 physical machine and halt if you have any local zones on it. Solaris 8 and solaris 9 also include newer kernel update patch rejuvenation. The patches for solaris live upgrade site includes patch content that uses the solaris live upgrade utility to install patches to an inactive boot.
Srus are part of a new os provisioning scheme called the image packaging system ips. The patches contained in this patchset are considered the most. This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. Other times, a patch may come in as a jar file indicated by a. Several operating system patches are required for the proper operation of the compilers and tools in the oracle developer studio 12. Use the fixlets on the various solaris sites to apply oracle patches and updates to your deployment. Specific ips packages to do analysis against, specified in fmri format. These best practices are collected from various customer feedback and proven results with pure storage array.
The service management facility smf is a core component of the new predictive selfhealing set of technologies introduced in solaris 10. Service management facility was first introduced in solaris 10 for managing. Oracle solaris 11 package have name structure it caled fmri. Scott lynn put together a very informative blog on solaris 10. Patches released after the solaris 10 10 08 release can be found on the my oracle support. Im guessing it needs a package that isnt available inside. Does anyone know of a command that would show the list of patches installed and the date it was installed. Run the add nfs share solaris 10 task to add the path to the nfs share. The smserver service should be enabled or disabled as appropriate.
In solaris 11, oracle removed the word called patches from their dictionary. The guide starts with a brief overview of the service management facility and follows with several examples of using the facility to manage services. Os package and patch updates sparc t41 server oracle docs. Therefore, these patches are not located in the varsadm patch directory. If you want to deploy patches through an nfs share, complete the following steps. The recommended os patchset solaris 10 sparc provides the minimum set of patches needed to address security and sun alert issues, and selected issues identified by oracle proactive services and the oracle technical support center, for the solaris 10 operating system for sparc. This article is an overview of best practice configuration. The operating system will be oracle solaris 10 sunos 5. However it appears you dont need solaris 10 patches since youre running solaris express. In the following example package fmri, solaris is the publisher, systemlibrary is the package name, and 0. However, if we are installing the solaris apache 2 packages some time later the actual solaris installation, then smf for apache 2 needs to be configured manually. It exists several products in internet that are able to managed solaris server but we support only the patching methods listed at.
Solaris 10 kernel patchid sequence oracle solaris blog. Every service has a fmri which includes the service name and instance name. Apr 28, 2014 however, if we are installing the solaris apache 2 packages some time later the actual solaris installation, then smf for apache 2 needs to be configured manually. After this promotion ends, solaris 10 security fixes will remain available to everyone. Solaris 10 without patches 12054410 and 12291208 note. To determine how long a solaris 10 system has been without patching, i remotely check the following from a linux system, because gnu date is handy 1 remotely grab the datetime from the most recent thing in the patch directory.
These patches are located in the varsadmpatch directory on an installed system. A beginners guide to service management facility smf in. The table show which kernel patch revision is included in the solaris 10 update releases and there patch dependencies. I hope oracle is not going to abandon solaris 10 in sake of their new solaris 11 express release. Solaris 10 without patches 120544 10 and 12291208 note. To determine the package version of the oracle solaris 11 os installed on your system, use the pkg info kernel command and interpret the fmri value displayed in the output. Getting solaris 10 patches with smpatch, pca and oracle. To list all patches applied to the system, run the following.
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. If the model number is 15 or less, you can get by with solaris 10 update. This operation is much easier than solaris 10 os patch bundle installation. The machine is across town, so i cant check the cable just now, outside of that, is there anything else i can check. 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. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 11 host. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool. To list the applied patches or to dertermine the presence of a specific patch, use the showrev command. Solaris 10opensolaris now uses services for all the sun supplied start up scripts, but still supports the old legacy rc scripts too. Oracle solaris 11 overview and design guide fujitsu.
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. But eventually all good things must continue reading how to get to solaris 10 patches post premier support. How to get to solaris 10 patches post premier support. Students will have access to both sparc and x86based solaris servers to perform their labs.
Cant ping default router in solaris 10 the system apparently came up, but without network connectivity. Install the kernel patch of a solaris 10 update release is not the same as do an upgrade to the solaris 10 update release. Solaris 11 global zone must have minimum 7gb of free space for solaris 10 zone installation. Download the latest solaris 10 patches using patchfinder and find updated support content using the sunsolve knowledgebase. Management facility smf to monitor and manage a solaris 10 system. 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. You can ignore the other fields in the fmri package description. Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology.
Each of these publishers represents a solaris 11 patch repository on an ips server. These kind of situation rasie due to application incompatibility with high version of operating systems. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgradingpatching solaris. This article will show you the procedure to configure apache2 under smf, manually. How can i determine the last time a solaris machine was. In upcoming days,definitely you need to migrate the solaris 10 physical servers as a local zone in solaris 11 global zone if you want to continue to use solaris 10 operating system. The solaris 10 508 patch bundle, which is now available on sunsolve ill add a blog entry about it later, provides the equivalent set of patches to the solaris 10 508 release image, but does \not\ include new packages. Solaris 11 ips pkg command examples the geek diary. Unlike earlier releases of solaris, most of the system parameters needed to run oracle are already set properly, so the only one you need is the maximum shared memory parameter. Solaris 10 kernel patchids sequence overview of kernel patches for the.
If your system is currently running oracle solaris 10, you can find its patch level with the. Solaris 10 patches come in zip format, such as 10494502. How to determine the release and default kernel version in. 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. Beginners guide to oracle solaris live upgrade the geek diary. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware. There is nothing in solaris 10 and earlier patches to identify the date, and this is on purpose. Solaris 10 kernel patches looks hard, but it isnt oracle. Solaris 10 was originally launched in january 2005, and over its lifespan has introduced a ton of ground breaking features, like the zfs volume managerfilesystem, dtrace, zones, service management facility, trusted extensions and more.
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