This site includes legacy solaris 10 and earlier core os patch content. 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. Many of the new patches for solaris 10 are unavailable on suns patch server, so pca will fail to download them. Installing a solaris 10 update patch bundle to a system will update etcrelease file, but the sunwsolnm package version will not change, ie.
Mar 09, 2007 the ancient solaris machine i was working with did not have it, so i was forced to find other ways of finding information such as cpu speed and memory size. Command to find out when the patches are installed in. Now, sun now ships an 8core, you can even get the same number of virtual cpus if you have more physical cpu on quad core vs less physical cpu on 8core system. From that you can deduce the number of threadscores per physical processors. This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. Firstly, it probably depends which version of solaris youre running, but also what hardware you have. Jan 25, 2014 from the above output, you can see cpu chip 0 has cores from 0 to 7 cpu id.
Aug 05, 20 how to find latest oracle database patchset it is sometimes a bit of a hassle, to have the latest patch name or number on hand, when you need them. Solaris supports sparc and x8664 workstations and servers from oracle and other vendors. You have to know your cpu cores you purchased and by looking atyour hardware specs, then from there, you can compute the threads per core. In case you need more detailed output use v with the above command. How to check solaris release and default kernel version the. I think this will only work in solaris 10, but this should give a nice output of how many physical cpus, physical cores, and threads virtual cpus are recognized by solaris. But it may happen that the search is inaccurate and the required patch is not found. The best sun solaris administration interview questions. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware. List oracle patches oracle database tips by donald burlesonmarch 8, 2015.
Otherwise you can only get later binaries by upgrading to later releases. Here we have 8 physical processor and each has 8 cores. 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. For solaris 8 and solaris 9, we have psrinfo command but some options will not work unlike solaris 10 and 11. The pkginfo command in solaris is capable of providing detailed information about the packages installed on a system. In that case use the kstat command to find the physical cpus. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 10 host.
Find cpu speed and memory size on solaris terminally incoherent. Possible it can be patches, but its very old version and patchesbugs reports can be not available. How to find number of physicallogical cpus, cores and memory. On sparc at least, you have psrinfo to show you processor information, which run on its own will show you the number of cpus the machine sees. According to research sun solaris has a market share of about 3. Under sun solaris unix and other unix oses like hpux and bsd oses you can use following commands to gather cpu information. As unix admin, we have to provide those patch bundles information to them. Both opensolaris and openindiana only maintain process ids in proc. From the above output, you can see cpu chip 0 has cores from 0 to 7cpu id. Ok, you may search on my oracle support and save it as custom search. Pattern pattern discovery active by default for replaces the functionality in these probes additional comments.
This last weekend saw the switch off of sunsolve and the migration of the old sun support system across to oracles my oracle support. It is sometimes a bit of a hassle, to have the latest patch name or number on hand, when you need them. These patches are usually cumulative, but each advisory describes only the security patches added since the previous critical patch update advisory. If youre looking for sun solaris administration interview questions for experienced or freshers, you are at right place. We can see the zonecfg command has saved the info to an xml file in etczones. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. Oracle released another updated openssl patch for solaris 10 on june, 2014. However, it is a good idea to bring it to single user mode before applying the patch cluster. Scott lynn put together a very informative blog on solaris 10. Patch for solaris users guide hcl software product. Mar 22, 20 the solaris 10 cpus critical patch updates on mos are archived copies of the solaris 10 recommended patchsets taken on the cpu date. Oct 14, 2009 i think this will only work in solaris 10, but this should give a nice output of how many physical cpus, physical cores, and threads virtual cpus are recognized by solaris.
Installation and upgrade checklist report for ie 7. I want to know about single patches as well as critical patch updates cpu. Oracle critical patch updates cpus allow you to directly. Nov 28, 2005 the pkginfo command in solaris is capable of providing detailed information about the packages installed on a system. Possible it can be patches, but its very old version and patches bugs reports can be not available. For more information about sites, see the bigfix console operators guide. The ancient solaris machine i was working with did not have it, so i was forced to find other ways of finding information such as cpu speed and memory size. A critical patch update is a collection of patches for multiple security vulnerabilities.
Analysis of the oracle solaris configuration, including networking, storage, and oracle solaris operating system features in use. Download the latest solaris 10 patches using patchfinder and find updated support content using the sunsolve knowledgebase. If you patch with all current patches as of a certain date you might have the equivalent of a newer release even. Patches released after the solaris 10 1008 release can be found on the my oracle support. The patch set is now available in mos as a patchset cpu, which can be downloaded from here. This opatch command list all patches that have been applied. Solaris 10 1 patchset released and latest solaris 10. This means customers that purchase solaris 10 extended support get the benefit of continued recommended patchset updates, as patches that meet the criteria for inclusion in the. 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. Displaying system information oracle solaris administration. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. Prints the processor type or isa instruction set architecture.
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. The solaris 10 10 08 patch list provides a list of patches preapplied to the solaris 10 10 08 release. Im trying to figure out the way to see number of cpu cores available, its frequency, cpu flags etc. Unfortunately, one of the things lost was the incredible ease 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. Finding how many cpuscoresthreads in a solaris server. There are lot of opportunities from many reputed companies in the world. Solaris 10 508 u5 added cpu capping for solaris containers, performance improvements, speedstep support for intel processors and powernow. Number of cpu and memory information in sunos server. How can i list all of the patches that i have applied. Its pivotal that you get an understanding of the components of the system you want to tune. The patches that are listed in this chapter have been applied to the solaris 10 operating system in one of the following ways. How to find out the solaris service pack version i am working on a solaris 10 os version. This techrecipe describes some of its uses in listing numerous packages.
Microsoft releases intels microcode updates, including one. The readme, the install log, plus and backout scripts for patches you installed are copied to varsadm patches, not the actual patches themselves. How to find number of physicallogical cpus, cores and. The datetimestamp can be in any format that is easy to understand.
Was trying to locate the info under patch logs yet no luck. For example, to see if there is a fix for cve20104435 on solaris 10. First you can try prtdiag it will tell you detailed information about all your cpus and memory banks. The only way to get patches for solaris now is to get a support contract from oracle. How to get to solaris 10 patches post premier support tales from. In solaris 10, if you want to find the processor type and the number of physical processors installed on the system and the number of virtual processors available on the system then the psrinfo command does job for you.
Oracle critical patch update advisory april 2020 description. Solaris critical patch updates cpus oracle solaris blog. Find cpu speed and memory size on solaris terminally. Aug 21, 20 but i felt this post will be helpful for solaris administrators to find the latest os patch bundles from oracle. Solaris 10 1008 operating system patch list solaris 10 10. After this promotion ends, solaris 10 security fixes will remain available to everyone. 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. How to find latest oracle database patchset oradba. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. 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. The readme, the install log, plus and backout scripts for patches you installed are copied to varsadmpatches, not the actual patches themselves. Im trying to find out a way to display the latest patches installed in a solaris box. Sun solaris find out number of processors and cores. Patches released after the solaris 10 10 08 release can be found on the my oracle support.
How do i find out cpu utilization under sun solaris unix. Cpu os patchset 201804 solaris 10 sparc, patchset details. Apr 20, 2018 moving forward with solaris 10 extended support, the decision has been made to continue to update the recommended patchsets thru the solaris 10 extended support period. These patches are located in the varsadmpatch directory on an installed system. I am unable to find this information on uname a but no luck. On tuesday april 17 we released the first batch of solaris 10 patches. But the recommendation is always to use the latest solaris 10 recommended patchset. And another update to the ongoing openssl patch saga.
All versions get new intel patches for spectre, foreshadow bugs. Command to find out when the patches are installed in solaris. Hi folks, i am trying to check kernel patch version on a solaris 10 zone. However it appears you dont need solaris 10 patches since youre running solaris express. Its similar to the solaris 89 patchset installation codes, but there are more codes added to the list. Find out if a vulnerabilitycve is fixed in solaris cols tech. To find the number of physical cpus on any system use the p option with psrinfo command. 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. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 11 host.
In a order to find the latest patch bundles,you need an access to. Solaris is registered as compliant with the single unix specification historically, solaris was developed as proprietary software. But i felt this post will be helpful for solaris administrators to find the latest os patch bundles from oracle. Cve to patch mappings are now available for the solaris cpu from july.
Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgradingpatching solaris. To list all packages installed on a solaris system, use the following. The solaris 10 cpus critical patch updates on mos are archived copies of the solaris 10 recommended patchsets taken on the cpu date. Solaris is known for its scalability, especially on sparc systems, and for originating many innovative features such as dtrace, zfs and time slider. Solaris 10 1008 operating system patch list solaris 10. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool. To simply display the number of physical processors, simply run the command with the p option as follows. Download solaris patch clusters from my oracle support.
Find dropin, copied, decompressing done, size 0000. Solaris 10 10 08 u6 added boot from zfs and can use zfs as its root file system. Microsoft releases intels microcode updates, including one to address the recently revealed foreshadow flaw. Im told that the script gives strange results when run in an ldom. This document is based on the first customer release of solaris 10.
Unfortunately the old problem ive mentioned multiple times before is showing up again, too. The p option may not work with solaris 9 and below. Report perprocessor or perprocessorset statistics continue reading unix command to find cpu utilization. For a limited time sunsolve will provide access to all solaris 10 patches.
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