Solaris live upgrade made the os patching is more simple and it will save lot of time. 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. Packages on solaris allow easy installation and extraction of software. The book covers a broad range of solaris system administration topics such as. The eeprom command can be used from the os to view or set openboot rmware variables. Aug 15, 2014 solaris 10 packages management commands pkginfo, pkgadd, pkgrm, pkgchk, pkgtrans directories and files varsadmpkg, varspoolpkg, varsadminstallcontents. When you add a patch, the patchadd command calls the pkgadd command to. Dec 05, 2009 the first step in this process is to ensure that solaris 10 operating system is installed, followed by the installation of any optional solaris 10 contributed software. If you choose nowin boot option or install remotely through the tip command, you are using consolebased text option. I assume, you are cding into the patch and running pkgadd against the pkgs listed. 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. Solaris 11 has an all new packaging system for osrelated packages, in which the packages are primarily accessed via the pkg command.
Packages can be added easily by using the pkgadd command. Libraries dependencies 0 the following tables display the sub list of packages, from the reverse dependencies, that depends on the libs provided by mc. Find answers to scriptways to automate pkgadd which prompts for y yes all from the. That depends on what kind of connection you are talking about. After you install a svr4 package on solaris 11 with pkgadd, the ips client commands are aware of that package and report it. See the path if it is not available then set the path. Solaris advanced system administrators guide, second edition. If you are patching a package that was added by using the pkgadd command with the g option, the package must be. This command restores the file system to its state before a patch was applied. It turns out that pkgadd is not available by default on solaris 11.
Wave goodbye to pkgadd and patchadd varsadminstallcontents begins life. The next step in the process is to download the key and certificate for the oracle solaris 11 supported repository. I need your expert help, what is the best practice and simple way to migrateport from current server to new solaris 11 server. Ive been a huge supporter of sun having moved to solaris to get away from some of the linux flakiness, but the recent patching issues are making me take a hard look at other platforms again. Hi, this is not a question thread, but rather a solution to an issue i have encountered on solaris 11. It provides a list of the package names and version numbers.
Solaris at least up to and including 10 is a little different to linux in that it has patches, wbich arent the same as packages. Patch management for solaris supports zone patching on solaris 10 endpoints. Roles contain authorizations and privileged commands. Nfs or downloading from internet and then add it to system, or from existing location such as varspoolpkg directory if frequently required packages are copied to this location. Svr4 relocatable and nonrelocatable packages addremoval can be fully automated. Using package commands to manage software packages oracle.
Solaris 11 how to install and configure ldom part 7. Ensure oracle solaris 11 support is selected, and then click the submit to go to a screen that allows you to add additional certificate data to distinguish this key and certificate pair, as shown in figure 3. This section describes the red hat network registration process for unix systems. This patch installation utility cannot be used to apply solaris 1 patches. Ips is a new packaging system and replaces patchadd or pkgadd with a single command which is pkg. Various solaris package and patch commands various solaris package. Solaris add install new software packages last updated february 1, 2005 in categories news package can be install from cdrom, network i. Option a is for specifying the administration file to both pkgadd and pkgrm. Adding or removing a software package pkgaddall the software management tools that are listed in table 201 are used to add, remove, or query information about installed software. The pkgadd and pkgrm commands store information about a package that has been installed or removed in a software product database. Customized solaris installation and patching experience. There are two type of repositories are available in oracle to update solaris 11 operating system. The solaris product registry prodreg viewer and the solaris installation gui both access install data that is stored in the solaris product registry.
First, you arent using solaris 11 packaging ips but the legacy svr4 packaging. For more information about roles, see configuring rbac task map in system administration guide. If you want to install it in the global zone only, use the g parameter of the pkgadd command. Important deleting files from the varsadm directory to make more space is a solution center call generator. Oracle is definitely sustaining solaris as the best unix ever. The patching under solaris 10 can be conducted via the smpatch command or the java x windows gui updatemanager. Use pkgrm to remove a sparc package as explained below. Installing the tivoli storage manager solaris client. This article is going to explain that how to update the solaris 11. How to install an idr pkg using a p5p in solaris 11 elis blog. I recently faced a curious problem when trying to patch an alternate boot environment created with live upgrade on solaris 10. Solaris add install new software packages nixcraft. The only way is then simply to remove the old package and install the newer one, which is what rpm u is doing under the hood anyway.
In solaris most of the patch management happens with two basic commands and the y. So, to provide some information about what you could do in solaris. They are only valid on sparc hardware that uses the openboot rmware. The pkgadd command, by default, looks for packages in the varspoolpkg directory. Take the output of the server before starting the activit. Gui for more details select an option for configuration. An operating system configured network time protocol ntp or. The solution is to install it the unix and linux forums. This is an optional step that allows you to identify the key and certificate further.
Solaris 11 ips pkg command examples by admin the image packaging system ips is a framework that enables software lifecycle management, such as installation, upgrade and removal of packages. Use the patchadd command to add patches to servers or standalone systems. This page is concerned with instructions on how to build it all. The showrev command is a binary, and the patchadd command is a script. If the server owner or applicationdb teams is requesting you to patch the solaris 11, you have to update the system using pkg commands. Do we have to upgrade current t5220 solaris 10 server to 11 then migrateport all data and zones to new t52 solaris 11 server. I am doing this in by the documentation for pkg update. From the directory that contains the extracted files, run the pkgmogrify command using the syntax shown here. For you information,from solaris 11 onward, zfs will be the default root filesystem. Adding a solaris patch system administration guide. Oct 19, 20 the example command shown below installs all of the packages in the datastream specified by the d source specifier. How to add software packages pkgadd become superuser or assume an equivalent role.
Scriptways to automate pkgadd which prompts for y yes. Unless its an immediate issue security or stability, i wont even attempt to patch anymore. If we install from scratch, it is called initial installation, or we can upgrade solaris 7 or higher version tosolaris 10. 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. It is done during the os installation via the pkgadd command. Before anything else backup the whole usrlocalapache2, so you can revert in case something goes wrong then download the apache 2. Solaris 10 update 10 and above solaris 10 811 symptoms when doing a new install or applying a patch of 32bit oracle software on a server that meets the following criteria solaris x86 solaris x8664 where os patch 14450119 has been installed or in the latest solaris builds solaris 11 nevada or solaris 10 update 10 and above solaris 10 8. Building on oracle solaris 11 expressopensolaris is covered on the opensolarisspecific page. Supports solaris 8 branded zones and solaris 9 branded zones but does require purchasing an additional license. If there are no packages in the varspoolpkg directory, installation fails, as shown in the following example. How to add software packages pkgadd system administration. On solaris 11, the api is only installed in the zone where this command is run. The book covers a broad range of solaris system administration topics such as managing. As we all know liveupgrade is newly introduced in solaris 10 and it has great feature if you use along with zfs filesystem.
How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. Suppose i have solaris 10 106 update 1 installed and ive patched it with various patches that are actually provided as part of a much later release, for example solaris 10 1106 update 3. Oracle 11g r2 installation on solaris 10 x64 pak dba. Once more, since the beginning of this blog i can say. Prior to this command, this datastream must have been created with the pkgtrans1 command. 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. You can use this in combination with the pkgrm command to remove the. The packaging and patching utilities, such as pkgtrans and patchadd, require access to a set of keys and certificates in order to. Solaris 10 packages management commands pkginfo, pkgadd, pkgrm, pkgchk, pkgtrans directories and files varsadmpkg, varspoolpkg, varsadminstallcontents. Evaluate the patch log file to make sure there were no patch failures. Hard to say whether its safer to wait or safer to patch it yourself in the meantime but, if like me youd rather not wait an indefinite period of time for a patch, here is a patching process thats working for me. At a very basic level, you can tell puppet to do something onlyif an external command succeeds, or unless an external command succeeds. Creating a new boot environment with the lucreate command.
I would like to know how to install, uninstall, verify sparc packages on sun solaris. Libraries dependencies 0 the following tables display the sub list of packages, from the reverse dependencies, that depends on the libs provided by pkgutil. Sun had previously set a very high bar with solaris, offering the ability to patch a live system with complete patch application on a reboot, or applying many parts of a system until eventual reboot. In this context, any packages that you have copied into that directory are spooled and waiting for installation. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. Some of this flexibility was rolled back with solaris 11, to see ksplice finally start arriving on the scene with oracle solaris 11.
This is accomplished by cli options for response and administration files. This document is based upon sparc solaris 10 obp all the following commands are to be run from the obp and not the os. Apparently theres a gui i havent tried it, but on the command line everything centres around the pkg command. In solaris 11, oracle removed the word called patches from their dictionary.
For simplicity, assume pkgout as the current directory on all that follows. I need to check latest kernel version in solaris 10 container. I havent tried this, but the pkgadd s option claims to unpack packages to varspoolpkg, and pkgadd without d looks for packages in that directory. In otherwords, if the systems root filesystem is zfs,then you have to use live upgrade and no other way to do it. The s option in your first command tells pkgtrans to translate the package into a datastream package on device2 the target if the device2 argument is a directory, then a filesystem type package will be placed in the directory. Oracle solaris 11 automated installer proprofs quiz. If so, the pkgask command is used to record all the answers in this file.
The concrete use case is that we have some old softwareand its hotfix packages developed for solaris 10, now we would like to move them to solaris 11. Command output is the same for the patchadd p and showrev p commands. Solaris 10 branded zone kernel patching procedure this blog explains the steps to create a new boot environment in a oracle solaris 10 branded zone on oracle solaris 11. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root.
Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Hi quick and question for the unix expert here i downloaded the lastest patch from sun. This patching activity can be performed while server is in production since we are installing the patches on alternative boot environment. Howto update your oracle solaris 11 systems using 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. With the latter, you cannot upgrade a custom package. You may launch the configuration assistant at a later time with the command. Solaris 10 zones are part of the base offering and fully supported as a part of oracles premier support for operating systems.
There can be different way in which we may need to install solaris 10. Remove any already installed packages with the same names as the packages you are adding. Network time protocol settings there are two options for time synchronization. Skip the script and try the apply command 1 solaris 2 solaris ods online disk suite 1.
The pkgadd command continues to install the other packages. Applying patches to the new boot environment with the luupgrade command. Published on the otn garage the official blog of the system admin and developer community of otn with links to tales from the datacenter by erik benner, enterprise architect, mythics inc. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster this article describes the process of applying a solaris recommended patch cluster, or patchset as it is now called. Using the luactivate command to activate the new boot environment or fallback to the original boot environment.
The packages that are installed by using other commands are not included in the list. Oct 16, 20 installing applying an idr pkgpatch using a. Similar to yum or aptget, ips repositories host packages which replace older packages during updates. 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 11 ips pkg command examples the geek diary. If code interdependencies caused by subsequent code putbacks e. This operation is much easier than solaris 10 os patch bundle installation. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. This figure describes the commands for the solaris live upgrade process. Reciprocally, if you use the pkginfo command, it will show the ips installed packages with svr4 compatible names. Found the newest gnu patch compiled for solaris on open csw. 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. 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. Solaris 10 container deployed from solaris 10 global zone to solaris 11 global zone.
Download sun solaris cluster patches here is a convenient link to download the recommended sun solaris cluster patches via suns sunsolve website. 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. Installed packages solaris 11 this analysis retrieves information about packages that are installed with the pkg install command on solaris 11 endpoints. The pkg command is the generalpurpose client utility for ips repos. By updating this database, the pkgadd and pkgrm commands keep a record of all software products installed on the system. Optionally, the listing of the package contents can be omitted with option n. Avoiding user interaction when adding packages pkgadd oracle. Adding or removing a software package pkgadd oracle. Good day everyone, i am trying to install some new senmail patch on my solaris 10 system. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Now i need to know how to check latest kernel version in solaris 10 container. The first step in this process is to ensure that solaris 10 operating system is installed, followed by the installation of any optional solaris 10 contributed software. Chapter 26 adding and removing packages and patches on a. This procedure applies only to solaris 10 servers that have no zones or boot environments configured.
If you need to add a patch to a diskless client system, see patching diskless client os services. On solaris 10, this command installs the tivoli storage manager 64bit api in the global zone and in all running nonglobal zones. I encountered a bit of a challenging question today. Because sun uses a command line similar to the luupgrade command above as part of the standard testing, use a similar approach when you use solaris live upgrade to patch, regardless of the solaris release you are patching.
If the pkgadd command doesnt find an administration file in the current. Install and uninstall on oracle solaris 11 reflection for secure it. The first form of patchadd installs one or more patches to a system, client, service, or to the miniroot of a net install image. Example 2211 checking the file attributes of installed software packages. Feb 11, 2020 mistakes made because of the differences between various unixlinux. Detailed information about how to install and back out a patch is provided in patchadd 1m and patchrm1m.
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