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. If you change the mode of operation by ndd1m command, change the mode of. This section describes how to modify and display parameter values using the ndd utility. The patches that are listed in this chapter have been applied to the solaris 10 operating system in one. There are three lines of information about the interface. Icmp solaris operating environment network settings for.
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. Downloading solaris 10 patch bundle solutions experts exchange. Theres only four such patchsets a year and this is quite handy for rolling baselines when you plan to patch all of your solaris 10 servers in a particular. Aug 21, 20 i am not happy to post nontechnical posts on unixarena. Before you use the ndd utility to get or set a parameter for a hxge device, you must specify the device instance for the utility. If w is zero 0, all command characters supplied to lsof by the unix dialect will be. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. How can i determine what patch level the thing is at. If a host refuses to come up at all the first time it is added to the network, the problem might lie in one of the configuration files, or in the network interface. Some of the values also can be seen by using the eeprom command as root. In a oracle solaris 10 zones, only the ipmp interface will have its own global address. Remember that for example, eg driver will let you manipulate settings using dladm in solaris 10, but you will not be able to do so.
Based on you running solaris express on sparc, it appears youd need to flip to solaris 10, or more likely solaris 11 which would be closer to solaris express opensolaris that youre using. You can query the state of a network interface with the command ndd. The values unix and windows are mutually exclusive one will override. 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.
As a first step, download the recommended patch cluster from the my oracle support mos site. How to find out the solaris service pack version i am working on a solaris 10 os version. For a limited time sunsolve will provide access to all solaris 10 patches. Solaris 10 servers connected to the 4500s backing up to a redhat linux backup server connected to the nexus 7000s. The current ndd command will be made obsolete in a future release, replaced by ipadm8.
For that reason you should use the gnu tar utility we provide on the download page for solaris versions 9 and older. Patches released after the solaris 10 10 08 release can be found on the my oracle support. Change congestion protocol in solaris 10 the unix and. Pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches. I assume the uname output above is indicating that the latest patch was 10852819, but in varsadm patch there are about 200 patch numbers listed with some 109nnn numbers. And since youre using a sparc system, are you sure you dont have a valid support contract. The meanings of many ndd parameters make sense only if you understand how the driver is implemented. How to have a backup boot when applying patches to solaris 10.
Note it is strongly encouraged that you use ipadm8, rather than ndd, to modify or retrieve tcpip internet protocols. 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. But i felt this post will be helpful for solaris administrators to find the latest os patch bundles from oracle. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Ads are annoying but continue reading solaris starting and stopping dtlogin cde. Solaris 10 operating system solaris 10 106 solaris 10 1. The nf file is also used in oracle solaris 10 to configure some driverspecific properties. 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.
Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 10 host. Those of you still on solaris 10 may want to download the latest recommended patchset for solaris 10 which was published just last week, on 28th of january 2016. Please look at man page on your solaris server for details. This guide uses the term nonglobal zone to refer to a local zone. Hi i need to know how can i see parametes list of networks interfaces in solaris x86, i cant use the utility ndd for the network interface, i am working in a v65x and the nic is eg. By default, if run without any option or operand, pca shows a list of all patches which are not installed in. 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. 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 is also the behavior with nd, even if r or p are in effect. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. If a tcp driver sends a report that is truncated, it could be because that driver uses ndd for transporting the report. Adblock detected my website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to my visitors. General, package management, solaris 10, sun x86 platform add comments jan 29 2008 in my previous write up here, i wrote a brief description of the sun vts validation and test suite which can help one to run tests on any sun supported hardware and hardware components and report the health status and identify faulty devices. Mar 06, 2006 it is always good idea not to use the x windows system on dedicated solaris servers.
In oracle solaris 10, you use the ndd command to customize network parameters tunables and some driverspecific properties. Wget will simply download all the urls specified on the command line. Jun 07, 2012 in 2008, his blog pointed out that with solaris 9 and earlier, an rc3 script would be used to specify ndd parameters at boot up. How to set ndd values at local zone only in solaris 10 showing 19 of 9 messages. Please refer to the driverspecific man page in section 7d of the sunos man pages. Solaris operating environment network settings for security updated for solaris 9 operating environment the ndd command. Oct 26, 2011 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. With solaris 10 and later, it is more elegant to to smf. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware. Note that these issues are in addition to the ones already identified in sun alert 241426. However, solaris by default installs cde or gnome desktop. Suns own www site, contains pointers to sunsites and patches and has lots of. Reading this blog may confuse you or may increase understanding of unixlinux operating system and its component.
Hi, i have solaris 10 sparc server with two nonglobal zoneone is whole zone and the other is sparse zone. Only a manual intervention would muck that up to something slower. This is mostly a repost of laotsaos weblog, with some tweaks and additions. Ive been trying to find from where i can download patches updates. Sparc enterprise servers hardware platform guide fujitsu. Instead of the standard whatis file, solaris uses a manual page index file. Jun 24, 2007 the ndd command is also used to check for link mode, link status, and link speed of an ethernet interface. Patches may only be loaded on the global zone but not on. Download the latest solaris 10 patches using patchfinder and find updated support content using the sunsolve knowledgebase. This is the original unix command reference, useful if you know the command or file name you wish to learn more about.
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. 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. Solaris server hardening security tips i solaris unix and. Analysis of the oracle solaris configuration, including networking, storage, and oracle solaris operating system features in use. It looks like i will have to reload the tech servers os to get the server back. One last option, which only work in solaris 10 is described in dladm man page. Solaris starting and stopping dtlogin cde nixcraft. Maintains the patchrm return codes from the solaris release prior to solaris 10. This manual page documents briefly the hunt command. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. This procedure applies only to solaris 10 servers that have no zones or boot environments configured.
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. You can check or set the status and configuration of a network interface with the ndd command. I am seeking help to add patches to solaris 10 on 64 bit sparc server. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool. How to specify parameter values using the ndd utility sun. The patches for solaris site contains the fixlet content that allows for global and nonglobal whole root zones patching. Solaris version 10 and newer seem to have no such problem. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. This manual page was written for the debian gnulinux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. The driver for the nvidia gigabit ethernet adapter is nge. If a single host suddenly develops a problem, the network interface might be the cause. Solaris os specific edupert kb geant federated confluence.
Patch management for solaris supports zone patching on solaris 10 endpoints. Unlike the oracle solaris 10 operating system, if there is only one interface in an ipmp group, then its test address and its data address cannot be the same. This article describes the process of applying a solaris recommended patch cluster, or patchset as it is now called. On older versions of solaris the tar utility provided by the os has limitations regarding extraction of our distribution image. Change congestion protocol in solaris 10 i have a client with a meshed cisco backbone. Find answers to downloading solaris 10 patch bundle from the expert community at experts exchange.
Customers would like to install latest os patch bundles to keep their systems update to date. Theres only four such patchsets a year and this is quite handy for rolling baselines when you plan to patch all of your solaris 10 servers in a particular quarter. Patching solaris 10 on servers with nonglobal zones. I dont see much in the ndd or ce man page that would point someone unfamiliar with the procedure to the correct parameters. This is to prepare the server for the installation of oracle 10g. In 2008, his blog pointed out that with solaris 9 and earlier, an rc3 script would be used to specify ndd parameters at boot up. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. The way to do this is, we reencapsulate the unencapsulated rootmirror disk under svm and mirror it with the original root disk. How to specify parameter values using the ndd utility. The table show which kernel patch revision is included in the solaris 10 update releases and there patch dependencies. The solaris 10 10 08 patch list provides a list of patches preapplied to the solaris 10 10 08 release. Solaris networking solaris basic network configuration. Unfortunately, the ndd man page does not tell you the possible names of devices, and it does not tell you.
We use a jumpstart server to install raw solaris10 from the network look here for. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. The following ndd command disables a solaris oe systems from responding to unicast timestamp requests. Depending on version of solaris and the hardware its running on, you will either use ndd utility or use kstat or dladm commands to change speed and duplex. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 11 host. To use the ndd command, you first need to use the ifconfig command to find out what the device file is for the network interface in which you are interested. Solaris 10 kernel patches 12712711 sparc platform or 12712811 x86 platform introduce multiple printing regressions as listed below. Nbf nbuffering in effect nc no cache nd no delay ndsy no data synchronization. Man page references in this book contain the man page section number to help differentiate those instances where an entry appears in more than one section. 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. Recommended patchset for solaris 10 january 2016 solaris blog. If w is zero 0, all command characters supplied to lsof by the unix dialect will be printed.
Currently, ndd only supports the drivers that implement the tcpip internet protocol family. Solaris 10 operating system solaris 10 106 solaris 10. It is also included in the init script described in sample system nddconfig init script on page 26. Correct, its not possible to get solaris 10 patches with out a valid support contract. May 19, 2009 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. As unix admin, we have to provide those patch bundles information to. Warning content posted here are gained through the real world experience or some may come from training or any other internet sources. Compared to the ndd command, the ipadm command provides the following advantages provides information about each tcpip property, such as a propertys current and default value, as well as the range of possible values.
Solaris 10, and solaris 9 with patches, supports tcp multidata transmit. This manual is intended for system administrators who install solaris os and. One of the first signs of trouble on the network is a loss of communications by one or more hosts. Part ii multiple printing regressions in solaris 10. Comparing the ndd command and nf configuration to the dladm command. Use the ifconfig command to identify the instance associated with hxge. About oracle solaris 10 zones in this release creating. This section describes the solaris tm system administration and maintenance utilities and is for system and network administrators. Patch cluster, or ptf for applying them to oracle solaris 10 requires fujitsu. Although the ndd command is still functional in oracle solaris 11, the dladm command is the preferred command for managing these properties. On the patches, woulnd it be easier to rely on git apply.
How to set ndd values at local zone only in solaris 10. Please list command and specific directory that patches should the unix and linux forums. I tried to check the man page but cant find one for nge. The patches for solaris site contains the fixlet content that allows for global and nonglobal whole root zones patching the solaris zones technology provides a way to efficiently manage and use resources by allowing you to have isolated software applications and services. Please list command and specific directory that patches should. I would like to patch the server by installing the recommended patch cluster from oracle solaris 10. Solaris flash archives creation and installation html. I was applying solaris patch 12001114 as a prereq to 12712711 as prereq to oracle 10. The underlying interfaces will not have their own global addresses. If i recall correctly, an interface will default to its fastest designed link speed and mode, which in this century would be an autonegotiated 100mbit, or an autonegotiated gigabit, per the chipset and the drivers in your os of choice. Solaris 10 zones implementation which includes solarisspecific seamless.
They also provide access to old sun man pages see illumos manual sections. A couple of times when i booted, i got 100 mbps as reported in varadmmessages. How do i determine what versionlevel of solaris this is. Changing the default login session in dtlogin oracle.
Network troubleshooting tips for the solaris 9 os oracle. This is a short overview of solaris 10 kernel patches. Solaris 10 1008 operating system patch list solaris 10. Install the kernel patch of a solaris 10 update release is not the same as do an upgrade to the solaris 10 update release.
All hme interfaces are 10 100 mbps, all le interfaces are 10 mbps, all qe interface are quad 10 mbps, and qfe interfaces are quad 10 100 mbps. Currently, ndd only supports the drivers that implement the tcpip internet. Jul 28, 2011 viewing and changing speed and duplex in solaris. One exception is solaris at some patch levels of 2. Following command was set up in startup script on solaris 8 servers improved network transfers of files from one server to the another doubled transfer speed.