Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. There is nothing in solaris 10 and earlier patches to identify the date, and this is on purpose. Install oracle grid infrastructure is next step in order to enable oracle asm management. Update to oracle solaris 10 811 solaris 10 update 10 or later.
The sadc data collection utility periodically collects data on system activity and saves the data in a file in binary format, one file for each 24hour period. How to enable sarsystem activity reporter in solaris. 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. The oracle solaris cluster data service for sap netweaver agent orclscsapnetw is fully qualified by oracle. If%busy is small, large queues and service times probably represent the periodic efforts by the system to ensure that altered blocks are promptly written to the disk how to check pageout and memory sar guse the sar g command to display pageout and memory freeing activities in averages. Correct, its not possible to get solaris 10 patches with out a valid support contract. Configuring sap snc without single signon on unixsolaris. Solaris 10 os patching using lu live upgrade method. If you dont have it on your system, just configure sysstat with nls disabled like this. Generally cpu os patch cluster will take more time to complete the patching activity dependence on the running kernel patch level. If additional patches are to be applied to a solaris 10 system using. Usually it will fill space on var fs step by step procedure to enable sar. How to enable sar system activity reporter on solaris 10. List solaris hardware configuration show swap space.
And since youre using a sparc system, are you sure you dont have a valid support contract. 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. You have solaris or other unix and you dont want to pay for third party libraries. The book covers a broad range of solaris system administration topics such as managing user accounts, diskless clients, booting a system, using the service management facility smf, and managing software and patches.
How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. Even with my entitlement to download patches through oracle support, i could. Id like to collect all the system information available on the newer version of sar. 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. At any given moment, the processor is either busy or idle. You need to automate the gathering of system activity data, and the tool to use is sar. Dec 05, 2009 patching on the local solaris target machine with direct access to the internet is the most straight forward process and this document will describe this scenario. Ive been trying to find from where i can download patchesupdates. 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. Applying patches to the new boot environment or upgrading the os version in new be. Cluster server agents for sfcfs on solaris, patch detail.
Solaris 11 monitoring system activities using sar in. Next, multiple cpu intensive commands such as sar are executed. 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. I have the sys crontab setup to use sar to gather data and report it. I am seeking help to add patches to solaris 10 on 64 bit sparc server. This is to prepare the server for the installation of oracle 10g. If you have solaris 10 on sparc like us you will want the folder called sunos5. These patches need to be applied to the live boot environment to enable live upgrade to work correctly in a zones environment. Patching on the local solaris target machine with direct access to the internet is the most straight forward process and this document will describe this scenario. Discussion started by sarccastik dude and has been viewed 19,075 times.
Earlier it has global is solaris 10, container is 10. Mar 17, 2014 how to create and check lu live upgrade boot environment on solaris10. To watch cpu activity evolve for 10 minutes and save data. This section lists features that are no longer available in oracle solaris 11. I decided to document the process of configuring a solaris 10 server or workstation over the course of the many times ive done it, and this document has become my standard howto for the task. System activity reporter sar is a legacy system monitoring tool which is used to report cpu activity, system loads average, memorypaging, lun load, network activity. So, you want to enable snc without single sign on sso in your environment. Inside the unzipped archive from step 3 you will find a series of folders that match up to you operating system version. Oracle database client quick installation guide 10g. Oracle solaris 10 uses the resource control facility for its implementation. How to set up cron for automatic data collection from the system activity reporter sar in solaris 10 and 11 by admin this post outlines steps to set up a cron job for automatic data collection from system activity reporter aka sar. Once you have the sar output files, you can use ksar.
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. 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. Gathering system activity data from vmstat and iostat can be a timeconsuming job. Are sar daily data files fully compatible with sun solaris format sar files. When idle, the processor is either waiting for io completion or sitting still with no work to do. 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. Bit select your os linuxwindowssolarisaix database dependent and database. Solaris 10 live upgrade zones starter patch bundle oracle.
Mar 08, 2017 oracle sun solaris explorer is always installed on global zone using root user which are running only sun sparc system and solaris x86 systems as well as we are gathers information related to drivers, patches, recent system event history, and log file entries from the oracle explorer data collector output. User commands oracle solaris 10 1 information library. Good day all, i need to set up sar on a solaris 10 system that will be processing data 24x7. 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. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware.
Is it possible to identify a solaris 10 patch cluster from. I want to capture stats around the clock, then use one of the popular sar graphing tools to graph each days result say at about 12midnight. Oracle sun solaris explorer is always installed on global zone using root user which are running only sun sparc system and solaris x86 systems as well as we are gathers information related to drivers, patches, recent system event history, and log file entries from the oracle explorer data collector output. Here is the steps to change default version of java in solaris 10 sparc. Beginners guide to oracle solaris live upgrade the geek. The sar command without any options is equivalent to the sar u command. Collecting system activity data automatically sar oracle solaris. As a first step, download the recommended patch cluster from the my oracle support mos site. A simple solaris live upgrade procedure involves below 4 steps.
If you dont find sar command on solaris 11 zones, you need to install using pkg install command. Once youve decided exactly which pieces of the operating system you wish to. We can add sar in crontab to monitor the server through out the day and this will help you to find the system disk io,memory utilization,cpu utilization any given time. Its similar to the solaris 89 patchset installation codes, but there are more codes added to the list. Solaris live upgrade enables system administrators to create and upgrade a boot environment that is initially inactive, without affecting the running system. How to create and check lu live upgrade boot environment on. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena.
The information in this document applies to any platform. What package to install to enable sar oracle community. Customers with systems running solaris 10 508 update 5 or later already have all the prerequisite patches preinstalled on the live boot environment and hence do not need to apply this patch bundle. Apache web server in this example was compiled from sources on solaris 10. The patch naming format in solaris 10 and prior releases is simple. Oracle sun solaris explorer is always installed on global zone using root user which are running only sun sparc system and solaris x86 systems as well as we are gathers information related to drivers, patches, recent system event history, and log file. So, we will discuss first which command is generally used on solaris 10 server which are listed below.
Aug 14, 20 inside it select the correct subfolder for your os. Whats the simplest sar or its scripted variants cron entry that i can use to achieve this gathering the stats. This procedure applies only to solaris 10 servers that have no zones or boot environments configured. Please list command and specific directory that patches should the unix and linux forums. How to use solaris live upgrade to install patches oracle. Mar 18, 2014 now we will start our installation of cpu patch cluster activity patching activity. 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. Sar package is not installed along with zone installation on solaris 11. The sa2 command invokes the sar command and writes the ascii output to a report file. This article describes the process of applying a solaris recommended patch cluster, or patchset as it is now called. Apply patches at least download and install suns recommended patch cluster also check patch report file for additional security patches patches must be maintained on an ongoing basis.
Hi, do you know where i can find a newer version of sar for solaris 10. Jul 04, 2008 these patches need to be applied to the live boot environment to enable live upgrade to work correctly in a zones environment. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. Setting up automatic data collection sar the sar command can be used either to gather system activity data itself or to report what has been collected in the daily activity files that are created by the sadc command.
This script assigns the correct permissions to all the executable. Depending on the size of your system, the patch process can take over an hour to complete. Recommended patchset for solaris 10 january 2016 solaris blog. The following example takes two samples separated by 10 seconds. 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. This document is based on the first customer release of solaris 10. Beginners guide to oracle solaris live upgrade the geek diary. The solaris 10 patchadd command correctly orders patches for you, but solaris 9 and earlier releases require patches to be in dependency order. Solaris 10 os patching using lu live upgrade method using solaris live upgrade lu to patch cpu patch cluster. How to create and check lu live upgrade boot environment. Aug 06, 2015 solaris 11 monitoring system activities using sar in solaris by ramdev published august 6, 2015 updated august 23, 2015 how to check file access sar a.
Sar files which you have downloaded to the new directory at os level. How to create and check lu live upgrade boot environment on solaris10. We use a jumpstart server to install raw solaris10 from the network look here for instructions. Here we will see how to activate the sar on solaris 10. Because of this, you want to make sure that you shut the system down as gracefully as possible to ensure there isnt any data loss. Please list command and specific directory that patches should. The sar command without any options is equivalent to sar u. The problem also can fixed by install solaris 10 update 5 release or solaris 10 kernel patch 12712711.
Collecting system activity data automatically sar three commands are involved in the automatic collection of system activity data. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. Solaris is usually used as a server operating system. How to run oracle explorer on sun solaris 11 simple way.
If these features are installed on an existing system, upgrading to oracle solaris 11. Traditional method non live upgrade by admin this post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of. 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. For more general system statistics, use iostat1m, sar 1, or vmstat1m. Collecting system activity data automatically sar oracle.
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. Solaris 10 os patching using lu live upgrade method the. It should show that the patch number has been increased. During the solaris 10 extended support period, the updates to the recommended patchsets will contain patches that require a solaris 10 extended support contract, so the solaris 10 recommended patchsets will also require a solaris 10 extended support contract during this period. Install and configure oracle 11gr2 with asm on solaris 10.
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. Now we will start our installation of cpu patch cluster activity patching activity. Solaris 10 live upgrade zones starter patch bundle. These patches are the sun recommended patches for solaris 10 frozen from may 14th, 2010 how can i uninstall the patch.
Configuring sap snc without single signon on unixsolarislinux. Find answers to how to remove the solaris 10 sparc patch. Use the password that you specified for this user during the oracle database 10 g installation. Coz this server might patch very long back so it will increase server maintenance downtime. Support packages and patches additional components sap kernel sap kernel 64bit sap kernel 4.
This artical about to enable sar system activity reporter on solaris 10, here i am. 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. Feb 27, 2017 this article applies to oracle solaris releases 10 305 through 01. Note that queue lengths and wait times are measured when something is in the queue. The recommended method of proactively applying patches is to use solaris live upgrade.
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. When busy, the processor is in either user mode or system mode. Jan 03, 2017 how to find the oracle solaris critical patch update cpu patchsets, recommended os patchsets for oracle solaris and oracle solaris update patch bundles doc id 1272947. This artical about to enable sar system activity reporter on solaris 10, here i am providing step. Install the latest patches of solaris 10 811 or later. Pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. In solaris, how to check the number of users currently logged in. This book is for anyone who is responsible for administering one or more systems that run the oracle solaris operating system os. Is it possible to identify a solaris 10 patch cluster from showrev p.
Make sure that, you have connected to valid support repository or local ips repository. This will enable logging of login attempts, successful or otherwise. 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. Mar 15, 2015 on oracle solaris 10, you are not required to make changes to the etcsystem file to implement the system v ipc. Now to enable x applications, run the following commands on the local computer. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool. The book covers a broad range of solaris system administration topics such as. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. Next we begin the zone install, it takes around 10 minutes to initialise the packages it needs for the new zone. Now in the below post we will step by step method to enable the sar on solaris operating system. Migration to oracle solaris cluster data service for sap.