The behavior of the stmsboot command in the solaris 10 os differs from the stmsboot command provided by sun storedge san foundation software in the solaris 8 and solaris 9 os. The following considerations apply to the stmsboot e, d, and u options. Note in previous oracle solaris releases, the stmsboot command was used to enable or disable multipathing on the boot device only for sparc based hosts only. How to update solaris 10 to be safe from shellshock bug. I had installed solaris 9 x86 on my intel pc almost 910 months ago. A supported release means that someone will answer the phone, and that patches for problems are available. Each marketing release of solaris has its own set of patches. 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. Download solaris patch clusters from my oracle support. The readme, the install log, plus and backout scripts for patches you installed are copied to varsadm patches, not the actual patches themselves. Patches may only be loaded on the global zone but not on. Download solaris patch clusters from my oracle support lildude howtodownloadsolarispatchclustersfrommyoraclesupport 20101214t07. As per the compatibility matrix, solaris 10 update 8 is required as a.
With a san this should simply be a case of having more than one connection. If you are using the repositories that are provided by oracle or other publishers, your endpoints must be connected to the internet. Run luxadm display devrdskcxtydzs2 where cxtydzs2 is a svc or storwize v7000 device. Another tool, sun patch check, can be run to obtain a listing of available patches, but provides little diagnostic capabilities. While you definitely need to update bash, many remote exploits depend on bash as binsh, which has never been the default for any version of solaris. 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. Theres also a podcast and a dedicated solaris blog a number of technical articles have been released, including george wilsons video overview of zfs enhancements in solaris 10 910 as with all solaris updates, solaris 10 910 contains all. It does not necessarily apply to some applications embedded in solaris, such as staroffice. Install from the first three cds, accepting all defaults. 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. Im trying to find out a way to display the latest patches installed in a solaris box. 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.
In sun microsystems software, stmsboot is the command line utility for managing solaris multiplexed io. For solaris 10 and 11, mpxio is enabled by default on x86 platforms. The stmsboot program is an administrative command to manage fibre channel devices under solaris. Live patching for the solaris 9 operating system experts. Configuring solaris mpxio for use with svc or storwize v7000. This is a dependency chain, the only thing really required is a new libnss that will let samba winbind work. In this case, the patches are in the vartmp patches directory. Solaris 9 patches released from november 1, 2011, will have vintageextended access entitlement by default, which means that only customers with an extended support contract for solaris will be able to access them.
See here for information and here for the download remember to accept the license agreement at the top. 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. We have the oss and can install them, thats no problem. I am seeking help to add patches to solaris 10 on 64 bit sparc server. If you are using a preconfigured local repository, you must assign it to the endpoints. These best practices are collected from various customer feedback and proven results with pure storage array. 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. Solaris 9 x86 package version and patches installed. Solaris 10 container deployed from solaris 10 global zone to solaris 11 global zone. If stmsboot e is run on a server which has zfs boot solaris 10 1008, during boot a scary message is displayed on console which can be safely ignored at least for us until now remove the powerpath package using pkgrm and reboot. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. Solaris admin reference solaris storage multipathing.
You should reboot immediately after running the stmsboot command. One of my customers is working on a product which can virtualize old solaris environments and run them on current, supported solaris platforms. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. Oracle solaris storage multipathing mpxio provides multipath access to storage luns by grouping together the physical paths and presenting a single logical path. The readme, the install log, plus and backout scripts for patches you installed are copied to varsadmpatches, not the actual patches themselves. Command to find out when the patches are installed in. Md5 the md5 software is not needed for systems running the solaris 10 os, because the digest1m command now includes md5 functionality.
Recently, i used the live upgrade tools in the solaris os to successfully apply the latest patch cluster to a machine running the solaris 9 os, without bringing the machine into singleuser mode. Scott lynn put together a very informative blog on solaris 10. Before i install it, my task is to find out what os patches have already installed on the box. 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. Its similar to the solaris 89 patchset installation codes, but there are more codes added to the list. Unfortunately, one of the things lost was the incredible ease to locate and download. Please list command and specific directory that patches should the unix and linux forums. But the old san have been using mpxio for the multipathing so could someone outline the procedure to enable. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. On production machines, if you keep up with sun recommended patches you may have this already. Hp 3par solaris implementation guide abstract this implementation guide provides information for establishing communications between an hp 3par storeserv storage system and a solaris 8, 9, 10, or 11 host running on the sparc, x64, and x86 platforms.
This was known as storedge traffic manager stms and is now referred to as mpxio the stmsboot program is an administrative command to manage fibre channel devices under solaris. This article is an overview of best practice configuration. This should give you just a few hits such as 12361104 which you can then go to sunsolve and find patches for, or at least find out the latest recommended level, bug lists, etc. Synopsis the remote solaris system is missing a security patch from cpu apr2016. Where can i find solaris patch clusters for solaris 2. To prepare for either enabling or disabling mpxio on a specific drive port, specify ls l devcfg on the command line.
I realize since then sun has come out later release level for solaris 9, which i did downlaod as complete zip files. Subscribe to the patches for solaris 11 site to access the installation task. Command to find out when the patches are installed in solaris. Our solaris 9 boxes have been using netapp san brocade switch we have purchased hds san systems the virtual storage platform which also use brocade 5100 switch have tested on test server by switching from the old netapp san to the new hds san and see the disks okay. In a order to find the latest patch bundles,you need an access to. 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. Solaris 9 transitioning to extended support oracle.
To enable mpxio for fc drives, run the following command. Solaris operating system version 10 305 to 10 910 u9 release 10. In the solaris 8 and solaris 9 os, the stmsboot command is used to enable or disable multipathing on the boot device only for sparc based hosts only. Mar 14, 2007 this should give you just a few hits such as 12361104 which you can then go to sunsolve and find patches for, or at least find out the latest recommended level, bug lists, etc. However it appears you dont need solaris 10 patches since youre running solaris express. Solaris 10 910 update 9 released oracle solaris blog. 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. With the release of the solaris 10 update 4 os, the stmsboot 1m command is now available for use on sparc, x86, and x64 based systems to enable or disable multipathing for fibre channel fc and sas devices. Scsi_vhci is the virtual host controller interconnect driver used to manage path of logical uni, see man page of scsi_vhci7d.
Enabling and disabling multipathing oracle solaris. Now i need to know how to check latest kernel version in solaris 10 container. Oct 26, 20 for solaris 10 and 11, mpxio is enabled by default on x86 platforms. Ive updated the solaris 10 kernel patchid sequence entry below with the kernel patchids for solaris 10 9 10 update 9. From the output returned, select the port you would like to either enable or disable. Hi unix experts, im told to install websphere mq on sun 5. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgradingpatching solaris. The stmsboot command updates the etcvfstab file and dump configuration to reflect device name changes during the next reboot. My question is is there any way to bring my exiting installed softeare to the latest level, instaed of. Install patches 11296036, 11287434, 11223301, 11223311.
Of course to do this, we need to run an assortment of old solaris platforms, and by old i mean solaris 2. May 19, 2009 solaris 10 patch return codes may 19, 2009 by gleb reys 4 comments 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 need to check latest kernel version in solaris 10 container. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool. Btw, i know mpxio works only of my solaris has certain patches installed. When enabled, mpxio will discover multiple paths to the same fibre channel drives and map them as one device under a new device name.
Solaris fingerprint database companion and solaris fingerprint database sidekick. The following applies to core solaris packages and patches. But i felt this post will be helpful for solaris administrators to find the latest os patch bundles from oracle. Howto reregister a solaris system with sconadm without serialnumber, to downloadinstall patches with smpatch doc id 47266. This last weekend saw the switch off of sunsolve and the migration of the old sun support system across to oracles my oracle support. This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. I installed patch manager but in its read me file i found out that its only for solaris 8 and there is some update manager for solaris 9. Can i create a disk that will have all the updatespatches and just run it once and not sit and update one by one. A beginners guide to solaris multipathing software mpxio.
Any service that actually calls bash somehow will still be vulnerable if it does not sanitize its environment. This article documents several general configuration parameters that apply to any solaris environment. You need to make sure that your storage is exposed over multiple paths. Patches are a separate software change control mechanism distinct from package versions in solaris. Unfortunately, one of the things lost was the incredible ease to locate and download patch clusters.
As unix admin, we have to provide those patch bundles information to them. Openssh installing openssh is not needed on solaris 9 or 10. You do not need to manually edit the nf or nf files. Correct, its not possible to get solaris 10 patches with out a valid support contract. Howto reregister a solaris system with sconadm without. Patch cluster install script for solaris 9 recommended patch cluster.
Pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches. Description this solaris system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates. That is, theres one set of patches for solaris 8, a separate set of patches for solaris 9, and another set of patches for solaris 10. Run luxadm display devrdskcxtydzs2 where cxtydzs2 is a. On solaris 8 and 9 san foundation software sfs can be downloaded free of charge sfs 4. The solaris patch manager tool, a fullfeatured patch management tool, also provides details regarding patches. My question is is there any way to bring my exiting installed softeare to the latest level, instaed of install the whole new package al over again. Ibm configuring solaris mpxio for use with svc or storwize. The remote solaris system is missing a security patch from cpu apr2016.
Customers would like to install latest os patch bundles to keep their systems update to date. Vulnerability in the solaris component of oracle sun systems products suite subcomponent. Invalid argument messages from 14725801 this revision accumulates generic sustaining patch 14453402 into solaris s10u10 update. Configuring solaris mpxio for use with svc or storwize. I had installed solaris 9 x86 on my intel pc almost 9 10 months ago. Solaris 10 to solaris 11 networking task s10 s11 comments ip administation creating an ip interface ifconfig bge0 plumb. I tried pkginfo i command but it gives all of the packages installed. Aug 21, 20 but i felt this post will be helpful for solaris administrators to find the latest os patch bundles from oracle. In the solaris 10 os, the command is used to enable or disable multipathing on all capable devices. However, it is a good idea to bring it to single user mode before applying the patch cluster. As with previous updates, there are a small number of special or script patches whose sole purpose is to correct issues in the preapplication of patches to the solaris update release image. Sun blade 100150 flash prom update 11129217 obsoleted by. This article is going to explain that how to update the solaris 11.
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