Boot environment be a be is a bootable instance of an oracle solaris 11 operating system plus any other application software packages installed into that image. Managing boot environments transitioning from oracle. The only interruption to production is the time to boot into the abe once its ready to go live. Oct 09, 2009 solaris 10 10 09 provides new features, fixes and hardware support in an easytoinstall manner, preserving full compatibility with over 11,000 thirdparty products and customer applications. The boot process on x86x64 hardware is bit different than the sparc hardware. Where c for current boot device, m for mount point with the new device and its filesystem type, n for new boot environment name. In this article will show you how to create and activate new boot environment in oracle solaris 11. Although i initially though it was a lu problem, the solution is finally related to the patches to be applied and the way a solaris.
Make sure you have the most recently updated patch list by consulting sunsolve. Updated customer patching presentation and other stuff. 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 tools for managing boot environments. 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. Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology. Solaris 10 os patching using lu live upgrade method. For very old solaris, there are some important prerequisites to adhere to, but once the initial preparation is complete, live upgrade can be used going forward. Upgrading a boot environment oracle solaris 10 811. Live upgrade allows the system admin to upgrade or patch a running system with the only downtime being the server reboot once the upgrade or patch is complete. The guide presents the key concepts of the course but it does not contain all the content presented in the course itself. Sun releases new update to solaris 10 operating system help.
Hi i have a sun m4000 with 1 global and 4 nonglobal zones running solaris. Now we will start our installation of cpu patch cluster activity patching activity. Applying patches to the new boot environment with the luupgrade command. Architecture for package sunwnxge from directory sunwnxge. I havent tried burning it yet to dvd, but i shouldnt have to. In this example, the mount points for the file systems are specified by using the m option. In our environment we have t34 model solaris 10 811 release running with solaris 10 and solaris 9 containers.
Take an instance, there are sol1 and sol2 nodes and having two failover zones like sozone1rg and sozone2rg and currently. I want to use patching to inactive boot environment method and need urgent assistance. Alternatively, just read the latest available oracle security cpu critical patch update pad product advisory doc. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root. The problem is that the 9556 patch install tries to do something with liblibc. An alternate boot environment of a solaris computer is typically created by copying the entire root file system. Oracle solaris 10 os for sparc up to and including oracle solaris 10 509 update alternate. Patching best practices for the solaris 10 os with sam. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Creating a new boot environment oracle solaris 10 811. Example 4 10 creating a boot environment with a mirror and not specifying a submirror name. 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. From solaris10 isoimage i have upgraded the software of live upgrade.
Create the alternate boot environment to be used during the solaris live. Using oracle enterprise manager ops center to update. How to upgrade and patch with oracle solaris live upgrade. The lu boot environment is mainly will help us to reduce down time of the server for upgrade os as well as os patching activity purpose. This allows the system to create an alternative boot environment.
The benefits of using solaris live upgrade are the following. Managing boot environments in solaris 11 the geek diary. As a result, the developers are working on a cumulative set of all previous changes. We are getting multiple requests for solaris kernel patching procedure from many of your gurkul followers. Disk space for the second boot environment under oracle solaris zfs with the release of oracle solaris 10 10 08 it is possible to boot from an oracle solaris zfsmanaged pool. It can be done by using beadm command to create and activate the new boot environment which is cloned from the active boot environment. General sun, sunos and sparc related questions also go here. This new be created on the disk but, the new be can be patched. However, when i run lustatus, it shows no boot envrionments. How to create a live upgrade boot environment solaris live upgrade is an excellent way to manage solaris operating system upgrades and patches.
Apply the solaris os recommended patch cluster whenever possible to get the most critical fixes. 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. 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. This was an initiative to create a standard unix desktop environment.
Customized solaris installation and patching experience. On the next boot the boot environment solaris idr16381 will be mounted on. 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. Note this procedure provides commands for the solaris 10 807 release. I am in process of applying solaris recommended patch cluster via live upgrade. Solaris 10 uses varsadmpkg and varsadm patch to track package and patch versions.
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. Patching mirrored systems with the solaris live upgrade. Restrictions on using patchadd r to create an alternate. Note that each solaris release consists of a single source base. 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. The required prerequisite patches can be applied to the live boot environment. I have solaris 10 sparc box with zfs filesystem, which is running two non global zones. Solaris 10 live upgrade, alternate boot environments, and their equivalents on solaris 11 can be very powerful tools to help minimize the downtime associated with updating your servers. With solaris live upgrade, patches are applied in the duplicate boot environment, which is in an inactive state, while the original boot environment is running. When you intend only to patch an inactive boot environment, you might need to verify that. The goal of this exercise is to upgrade to solaris 10 106. I recently faced a curious problem when trying to patch an alternate boot environment created with live upgrade on solaris 10. I think solaris 10 zones no need to stop while creating alternate abe and applying the patch. Once patched, the new boot partition can be booted.
In the last post we saw the boot process in solaris 10 on sparc platform. How to create and activate new boot environment in oracle. Oraclesolaris patching using live upgrade unix my first love. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool. To confirm this you could use the df k command and make sure you are booted to the alternate boot environment with the latest patch installed. You must have a boot environment be and an alternate boot environment abe in order to use this method of patching. On systems that are running a solaris release that is not zones aware, using the patchadd command, or any command that accepts the r option to specify an alternate root path for a global zone that has nonglobal zones installed, does not work you can use of the r option to add and remove software packages.
Previously, you could perform a live upgrade or use the patchadd command to update your be. Oracle solaris 10 1 whats new oracle solaris 10 1 whats new for point 3, the goal for this patch bundle is to have the same patch level as a fresh solaris 10u11 installation. Solaris 10 includes suns java desktop system jds, which is based on gnome and comes with. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. If the your rootdisk is mirrored using veritas or svm. How to create a live upgrade boot environment solaris commands. Jun 23, 2015 remember, the recommended patchset covers the solaris os only, so there may be some value in such scanners for ancillary software such as solaris cluster, etc. Rather, live upgrade updates an inactive environment, termed an abe alternate boot environment, which commonly is a copy of the pbe. Solaris operating environment boot camp david rhodes dominic butler sun microsystems press a prentice hall title page 1 tuesday, august 6, 2002 11. From here youll be able to test applications and zones to see if the patch had any negative affects. This book offers practical planning advice as well as real world demonstrations on how to configure and maintain solaris boot disks that ensure minimal outage and recovery effort when a disk fails or when the boot disk is corrupted. This allows a system to continue in production without interruption while the update operations are taking place. After patching is done, you can restart your computer to use the.
Let us create an alternative boot environment out of it. Oracle solaris 10 in the oracle cloud infrastructure. Managing boot environments in solaris11 is almost same as solaris 10 s live upgrade. But in solaris 11, all the tasks will be carried out using beadm command. Once patched you are able to active with new be with cluster patch, then when you bounce the system youll be booted into the patched be. Live upgrade with solaris 10 issues solutions experts. Solaris operating environment boot camp puts the answers right at your fingertips. Apply patches using live upgrade in solaris 1 create a new environment using lucreate. Zfs patching with zones using lu liveupgrade in solaris. In solaris 10,we will use lu commands like lucreate,luactivate,lumount,luumount and lustatus. From inside a solaris10 branded zone, create a new boot environment, patch it, activate it, and boot to it. Pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches. 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. Apr 19, 2017 in other words, oracle patched the remote root hole now dubbed cve20173623 back in january 2012 for solaris 10, and solaris 11 is not affected.
Any one of the cli tools mentioned for solaris will provide an easy process to automate patch management. Mount the current boot environment root slice to some directory like mnt. How to use liveupgrade with single disk, prepatching steps. Upgrade functionality enables you to run an os update job to create an alternate boot environment.
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. Therefore the patch utilities fail to correctly patch an inactive oracle solaris 10 boot environment. An upgrade installation of a solaris 10 branded zone boot environment is currently not supported. Restrictions on using patchadd r to create an alternate root path.
Solaris is a nonfree unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. How to create a live upgrade boot environment solaris. Next, use the luupgrade command to apply the patches placed in tmp to the alternate boot environment. Whats new in the oracle solaris 10 1 packages oracle solaris 10 1 package list. Patching mirrored systems with the solaris live upgrade software sun microsystems, inc. Live patching for the solaris 9 operating system experts. Solaris opensolaris this forum is for the discussion of solaris, opensolaris, openindiana, and illumos. This clone is listed as an alternate boot environment in the grub menu for x86 systems or in the boot menu for sparc. First verify both the disk are healthy rootdisk and mirrordisk boot with rootdisk and break the disk mirrors of mirrordisk. Example, you need to upgrade from oracle solaris 10 update 4 to oracle solaris update 8, so you must get the oracle. Create the alternate boot environment to be used during the solaris live upgrade software patch process. Here we will perform simple operations to understand beadm in solaris11.
Solaris 10 0508 update 5 patch bundle oracle solaris blog. How to perform aix patching on an alternate disk or on a multiple boot operating system multibos. Use the manage solaris boot environments dashboard to restart the current running boot environment to the boot. This clone is listed as an alternate boot environment in the grub menu for x86 systems or in the boot. Solaris live upgrade is a superb tool that lets your operating system create an alternate boot environment. The lucreate command enables reorganizing a disk if necessary, customizing file systems, and copying the critical file systems to the new boot environment. How to use solaris live upgrade to install patches oracle.
Patching solaris 10 on servers with nonglobal zones by ramdev published october 26, 2011 updated july 2, 2015 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. We are planning to apply the latest recommended patch cluster solaris 10 1. Creating a boot environment creating and administering. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. This solaris 10 patching best practices course reference guide is a supplement to the webbased training course ws2700s10. How to create and check lu live upgrade boot environment. 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. The solaris patch manager tool provides all the necessary features in one application. Oracle solaris 10 811 whats new oracle solaris 10 811 whats new. I am trying to present the simple patching procedure when our disks are under solaris volume manager control, svm.
Boot the machine to single user mode using a different boot device like the solaris install cd or network. In other words, you have to update the system instead of the patching it. 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. Here i am explaining, step to create lu boot environment on solaris10. The solaris 10 0508 patch bundle will not suit everyone. Solaris 10 ldom kernel patching using live upgrade. I have been tasked with patching a solaris 10 cluster, and there is one thing i cannot seem to get my head around. With the release of the october 2018 solaris 10 extended support recommended patch set, you can now run solaris 10 in oracle cloud. Both the above patch sets have a sophisticated install script to handle the installation to either a live boot environment or alternate boot environment. 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. Ill try to answer your questions about solaris smf. Patch management overview and workflow documentation for. If you are using zfs snapshots as a way to rollback from patches, try checking the contents of varsadm patch before patching, post patching, and post rollback if you are not already using the feature, investigate alternate boot environments for solaris.
For example, if you were to patch a solaris 10 305 system with the latest recommended patch cluster, many of the patches relate to functionality introduced after solaris 10 305, and therefore, patches with the new functionality would fail to install. The filesystems are all ufs, so i will creating a new boot environment on other disks, and moving over the shared filesystems. The x86x64 hardware also involves the 5 step boot process, same as the sparc hardware. On systems that are running a solaris release that is not zones aware, using the patchadd command, or any command that accepts the r option to specify an alternate root path for a global zone that has nonglobal zones installed, does not work you can use of the r option to add and remove software packages and patches, if. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards.
On a sun sparc r system, booting from an alternate boot disk requires eeprom settings to be changed. Solaris 10 patching ufs and no boot environments oracle. I applied the patch bundle to the active boot environment. Installation of patch set to alternate boot environment complete. Sun patch check and patchdiag can be used to find patches to install, but installation would have to be done manually. This operation is much easier than solaris 10 os patch bundle installation. Booting from an alternate boot disk if the root disk is encapsulated and mirrored, you can use one of its mirrors to boot the system if the primary boot disk fails. Patching best practices for the solaris 10 os with sam the sysadmin december 2009. 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. For a list of the required permissions for creating patching jobs and for. 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 solaris 11, oracle removed the word called patches from their dictionary.
Ive ran into this issue on multiple machines x86 while patching them up to 9556. Adblock detected my website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to my visitors. If the server owner or applicationdb teams is requesting you to patch the solaris 11, you have to update the system using pkg commands. The sun patch page provides all the patches for your specific system configuration.
Patching a live solaris 10 system with lu, zfs, and pca. Hi gurus i am not able to find the patching procedure for solaris 10 sol10 u11 to latest patchset with sun cluster having failover zones so that same i should follow. Sep 16, 2011 general procedure for kernel patching in solaris. Summary this is a great book for solaris system administrators or planners.
There are two type of repositories are available in oracle. Live upgrade is a simple way to update or patchs systems and minimizes downtime and mitigate risks often associated with patching efforts. System administrators can maintain multiple bes on their systems, and each be can have different software versions installed. 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. The root file system is mirrored with in the internal disks and the home filesystems are on nfs mounted external storage. Also with that oracle solaris release, the oracle solaris live upgrade tools have been modified to work in an oracle solaris zfs environment.
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