Scott lynn put together a very informative blog on solaris 10. 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. 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. 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. How to get to solaris 10 patches post premier support tales. 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. If the corporate policy prevents the oracle enterprise manager grid control installation from connecting directly to my oracle support and downloading actual patches, there is an option for you to manually download the required patch to your workstation and then upload it to the oracle enterprise manager grid control software library and patch cache. Installing the required oracle solaris 10 patches oracle. Device id discrepancies after upgrading to the solaris 10 release recovering from. How to split a root mirrored with solaris volume manager prior to updating software. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. This entry was posted in uncategorized and tagged patches, release, solaris, table, updates.
However, because there are only two of the original four state database replicas. Solaris 10 1008 operating system patch list solaris 10 10. Oracle enterprise manager ops center allows you to manage sparc, x86, oracle solaris, oracle linux, oracle zfs storage appliance, oracle switches, and both oracle vm technologies. For an example,if your systems are running with solaris 10 807 update4,then select that and select the right platform. In solaris 10, you are not required to make changes to the etcsystem file to implement the system v ipc. A system and service manager that replaces upstart as the default init system. I will upgrade the kernel patch through bundle patching using solaris live upgrade. Patches may only be loaded on the global zone but not on. There is also a patch finder on the web page and all you have to do is enter the patch id or patch id with revision. The zones update on attach feature and patching in the solaris 10 os.
Both smpatch and oracle enterprise manager ops center allows you to install patches from a single point. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. Volume manager on solaris, patch detail sort veritas.
Solaris 10 uses the resource control facility for its implementation. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. For a limited time sunsolve will provide access to all solaris 10 patches. This leaves the system with only two good replicas, and the system cannot reboot. The following example installs a patch to a standalone machine. For servers with solaris 10 os at, or near, update 1 106 or update 2 606, if nonglobal zones are already configured and running, patching these servers at single user mode will encounter issues. For the release you are using, see the solaris live upgrade documentation on docs.
Emc host connectivity guide for oracle solaris dell technologies. But we have to make sure backup everything include create zfs snapshot and splitting zfs mirror for rollback plan. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgradingpatching solaris. 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 that is, patches which address security or other critical issues. Patch installation instructions for solaris systems sun. Patch management for solaris 10 server oracle community. Patch a thousand databases, using oracle enterprise manager. Solaris 10 1 patchset released and latest solaris 10. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Boot the machine to determine which state database replicas are down. Dec 11, 2010 in fact, oracle has migrated all sun servers hosting solaris patches to its own servers. Oct 26, 2011 install to solaris live upgrade software. In solaris volume manager terms, the state database has gone stale. Hi, you can use ps ef command to list the processes on the server.
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. Hi, i downloaded oracle solaris 10 sw from edelivery and got it installed. This procedure provides commands for the solaris 10 807 release. Solaris 10 patches for oracle database 11gr2 oracle community. How to upgrade and patch with oracle solaris live upgrade. Solaris live upgrade is designed and compiled to work on the solaris 8, 9, and 10 os releases. The state database stores all configuration and status information for svm objects. 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.
Patches are not necessarily applied in chronological order. Asm disks user group ownershippermissions loss affecting oracle databases on system. The solaris 10 1 kernel patch, 14714726 sparc 14714826 x86 post solaris 10 1 kernel patches have the patchids 148888xx sparc 148889xx x86 please note that there are no more planned updates to solaris 10, so these latest kernel patchids 148888xx sparc 148889xx x86 will continue to be used for the foreseeable future. Solaris 10 patches now on monthly release cadence oracle. How can i determine the last time a solaris machine was patched.
Mar 14, 2007 download sun solaris cluster patches here is a convenient link to download the recommended sun solaris cluster patches via suns sunsolve website. How to use solaris live upgrade to install patches oracle. Hello, im very new to this forum and solaris i have solaris 5. How to remove a solaris patch while booted from a network or cdrom. When users add or remove luns, stale entries in os or vxdmp. By making sure that all relevant installation capabilities available with ufs are also available with zfs, oracle solaris 811 makes an excellent zfs transition point to take advantage of the ease of management, data integrity, and. Solaris 10 patches for oracle database 11gr2 oracle. Typical databases only require around 5k to 10k iops, a target that can be met by ontap select. Analyzing a patchadd or patchrm failure in the solaris os. Jun 06, 2018 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.
The patches contained in this patchset are considered the most. Solaris is a proprietary unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. In solaris volume manager terminology, the state database has gone stale. A list of the solaris volume manager patches that have been installed. Earlier it has global is solaris 10, container is 10. Chapter 24 troubleshooting solaris volume manager oracle docs. Apr 25, 20 solaris 10 release table posted on april 25, 20 by zach. Checking the software requirements for oracle solaris. Oracle solaris 10 811 includes features designed to simplify the transition from ufsbased system disks to oracle solaris zfs, oracles release notes state. I hope oracle is not going to abandon solaris 10 in sake of their new solaris 11 express release. These patches are the sun recommended patches for solaris 10 frozen from may. Example recovering from stale state database replicas.
The patches that are listed in this chapter have been applied to the solaris 10 operating system in one of the following ways. 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. Patch 11216803 for solaris 8 patch 11438803 for solaris 9 7 other known issues the following sections contain information about issues related to oracle database 10g and associated products. In the following example, a disk containing two replicas has gone bad. 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. To add and remove patches on solaris systems, use the patchadd and patchrm commands, which are provided with the os.
Getting solaris 10 patches with smpatch, pca and oracle. Im trying to find out a way to display the latest patches installed in a solaris box. However, it is a good idea to bring it to single user mode before applying the patch cluster. The following is the complete note text for the same. Oracle database 10 g release 2 is not supported by grid control 10. For oracle database 11gr2 i also need the followging patches. Click on that highlighted link to get the below screen where you can start os patch bundle download. S in postbackout to devnull e1200083 issue with stale pgr keys e1189199 system. Verifying operating system patches on oracle solaris 10. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021.
For example rejuvenated kernel patches associated with solaris 10 update releases such as 11883336 sparc 11885536 x86, 12001114 sparc 12001214 x86, etc. Red hat enterprise linux to oracle solaris 11 comparison. By upgraded to solaris 10 update xx or applying the following solaris patch. Patches released after the solaris 10 10 08 release can be found on the my oracle support. Using live upgrade to apply patches to running solaris 10 x86. It is backwards compatible with sysv init scripts, and provides features, such as parallel startup of system services at boot time, ondemand activation of daemons, support for system state snapshots, or dependencybased service control logic. Recommended patchset for solaris 10 january 2016 solaris blog. Patch installation instructions for solaris systems sun java. 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. Users should upgrade to the latest version of the solaris live upgrade software prior to patching the system, regardless of the version of the solaris os running on the system.
Amnesia is a condition where a node starts with stale cluster configuration data. Several operating system patches are required for the proper operation of the compilers and tools in the oracle developer studio 12. Presumably, it is not yet integrated into the oracle support portal and solaris system utilities. How to apply a patch when using solaris live upgrade. In this example, one submirror, d10, is using c0t1d0s4. New solaris 10 os patches are now available from mos by the tuesday closest to 17th of each month. How to get to solaris 10 patches post premier support. For sol 9 u4 or with patch 145409, fs size can be up to 16 tb. On solaris 10, the solaris patch 12022206 is a minimum version that has. Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology. Patch installation instructions for solaris systems before you install the solaris patch, make sure that you have backed up the files listed in preinstallation considerations. Removing the patch for solaris 10 releases, refer to the man pages for instructions on using patchadd and patchrm scripts provided with solaris.
Solaris 10 includes suns java desktop system jds, which is based on. If you are using solaris live upgrade from another release, you might need slightly different procedures. Download the latest solaris 10 patches using patchfinder and find updated support content using the sunsolve knowledgebase. But eventually all good things must continue reading how to get to solaris 10 patches post premier support. See patch identification numbers and descriptions for oracle solaris 10 platforms for more information about the patches. 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. Patches are packages, packages live in in a directory tree for each package which is here. The solaris 10 10 08 patch list provides a list of patches preapplied to the solaris 10 10 08 release. The recommended method of proactively applying patches is to use solaris live upgrade. Configuring oracle solaris operating system for oracle database. The note for solaris 10 under the configuring kernel parameter section of oracle database installation guide for solaris operating system sparc 64bit reads as.