I made some changes in the nf file and need to restart named. Reboot a solaris unix system last updated july 6, 2010 in categories solarisunix. This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. The example system we will be using has svm based mirrored root. Restart the server and boot the server from the oldkernel.
Applying patches to the new boot environment or upgrading the os version in new be. This operation is much easier than solaris 10 os patch bundle installation. Regarding to oracle security alert cve list, we need to apply solaris recommended bundle patch instead of apply one by one patch. Starting with oracle solaris 11, when you enable nscd, nscd performs all name service lookups. I am trying to present the simple patching procedure when our disks are under solaris volume manager control, svm. Restart network in solaris without reboot computer how to. Care must be taken to configure enough space when using logged ufs filesystems. Just open another session after you have changed the file. I am learning solaris, with solaris 10 x86, and one of the chapters in the manual is about patching. If you have any queries about patching, why not post them on the oracle solaris install, booting, and patching community forum. Restarting the name service caching daemon, nscd by ramdev published june 18, 2011 updated july 23, 2016 other learning articles that you may like to read. 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. Howto update your oracle solaris 11 systems using support.
Because it would be a great exercise to patch my installation of solaris. Updating the software on your oracle solaris 11 system. The flash archive took about 40 minutes mrzorg is only using about 3g for the root system. Solaris 10 recommended patching strategy oracle solaris blog. Solaris 11 nonglobal zone patching glynn fosteroracle mar 3, 2016 12. The configuration of nscd daemon can customised using the etcnf file and it is important more from a security point of view where you can control what is and how is cached on your solaris server.
The chapter is designed to begin thinking about solaris in terms of security by. I want to use patching to inactive boot environment method and need urgent assistance. Oracle solaris 11 includes ips, a new networkcentric package management framework with automatic dependency checking. I cannot find rndc command in roots path but noticed that there are two named related commands. Unzip the solaris recommended patch cluster file in vartmp. 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. Solaris by default runs a program called nscd that caches various things.
Setting static ip address on solaris 11 rachmat febrianto. These commands can be run on solaris 11 to disable nscd passwd caching. So, the new way, svcadm restart ssh is easier than the old way. Ips has integrated package and patching, and can seamlessly manage system updates to oracle solaris zones environments. This means it will be the default be after a system reboot. Solaris live upgrade enables system administrators to create and upgrade a boot environment that is initially inactive, without affecting the running system.
It can be the only tool you ever need for patch management, be it on a single machine or a complete network. How does one go about restarting bind on solaris 9. You might need to restart a running instance because you have made a configuration change that cannot be effected while the instance is running, for example. Each cache has a separate ttl timetolive for its data. In solaris 11, oracle removed the word called patches from their dictionary. If you need a more detailed introduction to smf then there is a good article on. They contain a number of links to resources which i hope you will find useful. 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 solaris package management ips is not nearly as developed or comprehensive as the equivalent gnulinux ones aptyum but it does make some things a bit easier. This kb article will show you how to determine what the problem is and how to resolve the issue. Here a notes for solaris 10 patching update that can be used as reference.
Heres a document and a corresponding presentation ive written describing the oracle solaris 10 recommended patching strategy. Even after fixing the problem nagios core is complaining about, you must also clear the maintenance state on the service before solaris allows a service to be started again. Changes to a useroverride on solaris 11 dont show up immediately. H ow do i reboot a solaris unix machine or server using the command shell prompt. Issues with nscd and solaris cluster patch 127111 description. Now i need to know how to check latest kernel version in solaris 10 container. Enabling the name service cache daemon oracle docs. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware. It resolves dependencies between patches and installs them in correct order.
Starting with oracle solaris 11, when you enable nscd, nscd performs all name service. This is useful if you have a lot of users and use a network protocol to get etcpasswd information, since nscd will cache such things as nis and ldap results. These installations are usually devoid of any vendor patches, may be running system. Enabling nscd with selinux leads to avc logs about postfix and nscd.
Here i will introduce the basic tools you need to control your smf managed services. Before this release, nscd cached a small subset of lookups. How to update oracle solaris 11 systems from oracle support repositories. In this post, ill blogging about how to configure your. Usersgroups missing andor not getting deleted usergroup casematching. So can i download free patches from the sun page, i mean with out paying a license. Solaris11 self paced video learning rhel7 self paced. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. Why does nscd fail to restart with relocation error. It will ensure they startup when the server boots up and that they will be restarted if they are stopped for any reason. Yesterday i faced an issue, where in i was unable to login into ngzs after kernel patching.
If you make a change to a network file the one you will want to restart is the networkphysica. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. However, it also caches dns and at least in solaris 8 and earlier ignores such dns information as ttls time to live. Management of services on solaris 10 is handled by smf, which stands for service management facility. 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. These can be used as a guideline for the boxes you will patch. Ips is an integrated solution that helps automate and ease the complexity of managing system software on oracle solaris 11 by integrating patching with package updates.
Solaris 10 container deployed from solaris 10 global zone to solaris 11 global zone. Updated solaris 11 support statement to include v10. The configuration of nscd daemon can customised using the etc nscd. What is the best method to run patch for live systesms. You can check the routing and interface stats just like you do anywhere else, using netstat, and of. The restart operation only restarts instances that are currently running in the online or degraded state. To restart ssh you either have a ascript in etcinit. Initially i think the cause is ssh key, then i tried to login into the ngz from the network, it was showing ssh connection refused. Grid infrastructure installation and upgrade guide for oracle solaris. I need some one to explain this steps as i am new to this. 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. With ips, you can update all of the packages on your system that have available updates, or you can update individual packages that are not constrained by the system. I need to check latest kernel version in solaris 10 container.
The documentation from oracle is your best friend when it comes to solaris questions the short answer is that pkg update or pkg update accept will update solaris to the most recent packages available from the ips repositories you have enabled on your system the long answer. Beginners guide to oracle solaris live upgrade the geek. If a package is constrained, an appropriate message indicating why it has been constrained is provided. A simple solaris live upgrade procedure involves below 4 steps. Issues with nscd and solaris cluster patch 127111 36998. Patch check advanced pca generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads patches. For packages unavailable from the oracle repos check out the. However, in solaris 10, you should edit the etchosts file a symlink to etcinethosts file and the etcinetipnodes file and add an entry for ip address and hostname. Personally, although the solaris method is a little longer, its much easier to manage a large number of interfaces than having everything about each interface in seperate files.
Setting static ip address on solaris 11 solaris 11 coming with new feature and enhancement, one of it is nwam network automagic with nwam you can create and save the network profile. When using a solaris 10 machine you may notice strange behavior around the use of nscd name service cache daemon. This article is going to explain that how to update the solaris 11. Unix commands comparison sheet sysinfo display system information i. This is command used for installing recommended cluster, the most. So a decision was made to allow new driver support to ship in solaris update releases but for solaris to compete successfully against other operating systems, a gap of ca.
Solaris patches installation error codes solaris blog. The following procedures were used on mrzorg to install the nov 28 solaris patch cluster. The patch installation on mrzorg took about 2 hrs and 15 minutes. So, solaris 11 which is radically different from the solaris 10, but talk about it separately it deserves another blog post for another time in terms of patching strategy is double. We are getting multiple requests for solaris kernel patching procedure from many of your gurkul followers. Hi i have a sun m4000 with 1 global and 4 nonglobal zones running solaris. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards.
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. Its similar to the solaris 89 patchset installation codes, but there are more codes added to the list. Nscd provides cacheing for the passwd5, group5, and hosts5 databases through standard libc interfaces, such as getpwnam3, getpwuid3, getgrnam3, getgrgid3, gethostbyname3, and others. Restarting a service managing system services in oracle. By default, nscd is started during system startup in runlevel 3, which is a multiuser state with nfs resources shared.
If the oldkernel and newkernel both are crashed while patching the. Once upon a time there was a dos user who saw unix, and saw that it was good. To configure the nscd caching service, edit etcnf to flush the dns cache in linux server. It is also important to know whether the solaris kernel you are patching is 32 or 64bit. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Use the install packages by using pkg task to install and update packages on solaris 11 and later endpoints that are using local repositories or repositories that are provided by oracle or other publishers. There are also ways to configure secure shell to act as a wrapper for nearly. A necessary procedure for system administrators is when and how to update the production environment in use at a company. There are two type of repositories are available in oracle to update solaris 11 operating system. Read how to determine if the solaris kernel is 32 or 64bit for more information.
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