The a option will ask for configuration information such as where to find the system. Solaris 10 shutdown, reboot, init, and halt command differences in summary, init and shutdown commands cleanly shutdown the system by running the shutdown rc scripts. To reboot the system to the state that is defined by the initdefault entry in the etcinittab file, type the following command. 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. 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. This, at last, brought the era of networkinstalled packages to solaris. When booted in reconfiguration mode, the system will probe all the hardware. Many customer want to get solaris 11 and aix multibos patching in bsa out of box which is not available for the time being in the current release of bsa 8. With builtin dependency checking, ips updates software installed on a system to the latest support repository update sru. Solaris 11 booting solaris system into different run. This task enables you to deploy individual packages or all the packages for an sru. I am trying to present the simple patching procedure when our disks are under solaris volume manager control, svm. Updating the software on your oracle solaris 11 system. It is used to boot the system it can be used with follwoing options.
This article is going to explain that how to update the solaris 11. 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 boot command when used with various optional parameters will change the booting behavior. In other words, whatever justification you have for installing the patch in the first place, is also your justification to reboot because rebooting is part of that install. This mode is usually used in case of patching the system. A reconfiguration boot tells the system to probe for all connected devices and build the names for them in devices and dev. Solaris recommended patch clusters do not upgrade solaris to the next minor revision, for example from 0404 to 0408, you stay on the same revision as you was. After installation to an active boot environment, some patches specify in their readme file that a reboot or reconfiguration reboot rebootr is required. This operation is much easier than solaris 10 os patch bundle installation.
The fast reboot feature of oracle solaris 11 is supported on both sparc and x86 platforms. Unfortunately the old problem ive mentioned multiple times before is showing up again, too. To see the available versions, use the following command. Reconfiguration boot solaris transition guide oracle docs. That means whatever problem needs to be fixed is still broken. Current recommended patch clusters can be very large and certain patches, such as the kernel patch, have a tendency to grow.
For more information, see installing packages on solaris 11. Can it still be started after the reconfiguration reboot. Due to unavailability features of multibos and solaris 11 patching, we have to create lot many custom scripts to achieve some level of automation and facing challenges to implement end to. Solaris 10 zones will be updated automatically when patching the physical server because we use the update on attach procedure. In 2002, sun microsystems was on the road to canceling solaris x86 as a product line. There are three ways of doing a reconfigure boot in solaris. As far as i know both ways will work on modern versions of solaris 10, but in case of major hardware. It displays the system information such as the model name, the boot prom version, the memory, the ethernet addresses, and the host identification number id. In reality, phil also had an impact on the existence of solaris itself. That being said, solaris packages are usually locked into a particular set of revisions via a meta package called entire. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Solaris 11 booting solaris system into different run level state by ramdev published july 21, 2015 updated august 23, 2015 a systems run level also known as an init state defines what services and resources are available.
Host bootrootswapdump devices positioned on symmetrix virtual provisioning. Rebooting a system booting and shutting down oracle. There are two type of repositories are available in oracle to update solaris 11 operating system. An alternative method of patching solaris 11 endpoints is to use the install packages by using pkg task. Hello, id like to install the latest patch cluster on my solaris 10 sparc server. The advantage of shutdown is that you can set a shutdown delay and warning message, but its nothing that a echo shutdown is coming wall. If a package is constrained, an appropriate message indicating why it has been constrained is provided. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Solaris 11 how to reduce the solaris reboot time using. This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to.
In solaris 11, oracle removed the word called patches from their dictionary. Before proceeding with the patching make sure that var fs have enough free space as all logs will be written there. The fast reboot feature implements an inkernel boot loader that loads the kernel into memory and then switches to that kernel, so that the reboot process occurs within seconds. For every application that is installed on your server, you should make sure that you have the correct scripts in etcrc x. Ips provides integrated packaging and patching with a single update operation. This means it will be the default be after a system reboot.
Once again, i immediately reported this to suns patch team. Howto update your oracle solaris 11 systems using support. In 2010, after the sun acquisition by oracle, it was renamed oracle solaris solaris is known for its scalability, especially on sparc systems, and for originating many innovative features such as dtrace, zfs and time slider. Hi gurus, we are having server v880 with solaris 8 and 3 jbod under veritas volume manager. The common syntax of boot command is solaris sparc system is. After installing the october 2011 recommended patch bundle on a solaris 10 the host fails to boot. Solaris 10 shutdown, reboot, init, and halt command. The 4 configuration files used in case of solaris 11 are the same, performing the same task. Emc host connectivity guide for oracle solaris dell. But in solaris 11, they are using smf service to perform the configuration. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgradingpatching solaris. Solaris 11 how to reduce the solaris reboot time using fast reboot by ramdev published july 25, 2015 updated august 23, 2015 the fast reboot feature of oracle solaris is supported on both sparc and x86 platforms. Patch install downtime requirements oracle solaris blog. Many of the new patches for solaris 10 are unavailable on suns patch server, so pca will fail to download them.
Assume the root role see how to use your assigned administrative rights in oracle solaris 11. For example, the solaris 10 11 06 kernel patch, 11883336, is approximately 6 mbytes. Prompt before reboot is broken it shutdown all apps and rebooted with no warning same as old version, note. If the server may happen not booted in single usermode. How many reboots are required for updating solaris 10. Find answers to after patching the solaris it does not show correct kernel version from the expert community at experts exchange. Solaris is a proprietary unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. The boot command without any arguments will boot the system into multiuser mode by default. Dear experts, we have debate for doing reconfiguration reboot 1 there is no new installremovemodify hardware on solaris server either x86 or sparc if we do reconfiguration reboot for above scanerio, is there any possibility of update the device database dev, devices and device configuration files under etc by solaris. How to update oracle solaris 11 systems from oracle support repositories. 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. Your pc will be completely erased of all files, programs, operating systems and device configurations, emails and favorites. Or if its a security patch, you are unprotected until you reboot. I wonder if i could make patching without live upgrade in a following way.
All major public solaris package repositories prior to solaris 11 still use pkgget format catalogs for their software. For solaris 11 in case of solaris 11, files in the directory kerneldrv and etcdriverdrv are the sample default configuration files delivered with os not used by mpxio. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root. Now our rootdisk is under svm control and rootmirror disk is under native raw solaris disk. Sparc v440 unable 2 boot after recommended patch install.
Solaris patch 12022227 is a minimum version that has been qualified for the emulex. Perform instalation of the patch cluster on disk1 in. The following steps reconfigure a system to recognize a new disk. The solaris 10 807 kernel patch, 12001110, is approximately 166 mbytes. For such patches, the system remains in a consistent state until the reboot takes place. A reconfiguration boot, performed when adding new hardware to the system, is triggered by booting with the r option. The location of the configuration files is etcdriverdrv. Commonly used open boot prompt obp commands okbanner. Each server gets a specific datetime window when we do this. 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. It will be returned to you in a state similar to when it was new. Hi gurus, we are having server v880 with solaris 8 and 3 jbod under veritas volume. If patching an active boot environment, a reboot is needed to activate certain objects that have been patched, such as the kernel. We are getting multiple requests for solaris kernel patching procedure from many of your gurkul followers.
Either a normal reboot or a reconfigure reboot may be required. It is normally not possible to manually install a package from a newer release of solaris 11. Device autoconfiguration oracle solaris 11 system administration. You have more than one command option that you can use. So, you just need to edit,save and restart the services. I checked the varadmmessages file and did not see any failures before the reboot and i checked the sulog and here is the entry.
Previously in solaris 10, all the configurations are inside a text file. 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. On linux, the closest equivalent is to delete any persistence files in etcudevrules. After installing kernal patch 7709 and xge patch 887202 on my sun blade 150 running solaris 10 1106 for sparc, i get out of sync boot archives on. This is command used for installing recommended cluster, the most. Hi all ive got 12 odd sun servers, running solars 8, 9 and soon 10.
On an x86based system, perform a reconfiguration reboot by editing the boot command in the grub menu as described in chapter 3. 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. Hi, i wanted to know if a reconfig reboot is necessary from the ok prompt when am changing the cpu or a. I am rusty on my solaris, but if i remember right the r being passed to obps boot command will cause the system to rebuild the device trees.
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