Some sun servers like blade x6270 uses lsi raid controller to manage disks. In the previous releases java archive section, click download. This section is dedicated to patching information for solaris and sun related technologies. In solaris 11, oracle removed the word called patches from their dictionary. Another tool, sun patch check, can be run to obtain a listing of available patches, but provides little diagnostic capabilities. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. Ips also enables you to create your own software packages, create and manage package repositories, and mirror existing package repositories. Wireless embedded solutions and rf components storage adapters, controllers, and ics fibre channel networking cyber security mainframe enterprise software broadband. Install opensolaris openindiana on an m1015 lsi9240 raid. Welcome to the oracle technology network patching center. 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.
Adding 64bit version of the lsi corporation megacli sas raid management tool that is also known as megacli. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 11 host. How can i determine the last time a solaris machine was. Installing and updating packages adding and updating. Download and install megacli and other supportive tools. Anyone who has ever had to work with the lsi raid controllers knows that the megacli provided by lsi is the most cryptic command line utility in existence. Im trying to find out a way to display the latest patches installed in a solaris box. Now i need to know how to check latest kernel version in solaris 10 container. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. Megacli configuration utility for windows, dos and linux operating system thinkserver system. So can i download free patches from the sun page, i mean with out paying a license.
Following is my notes on several solaris 11 procedures. Obtain the correct solaris files for your installation by first referring to the oracle and sterling b2b integrator system requirements and then downloading the. Server system tools, which include lsi megaraid storage manager lsi msm, megacli, and oracle hardware management pack are available with the. Managing perc6 with megacli under solaris 10 page 2 revision history rev date comments 1. Use this procedure to download either a signed or an unsigned solaris patch and then apply it to your system if you want to apply signed patches, you must first set up the package keystore. Solaris 10 1009 patch bundle now available oracle solaris blog. Solaris 10 1 patchset released and latest solaris 10. Recently i installed a server with a supermicro smc2108 raid adapter, which is actually a lsi megaraid sas 9260. I signed up for that, but now i need an oracle support identifier. Use the patchadd command to add patches to servers or standalone systems. You will need to unzip the file after download and choose the proper install package.
Creating a patch catalog for solaris documentation for bmc server. Solaris 10 container deployed from solaris 10 global zone to solaris 11 global zone. By clicking accept, you understand that we use cookies to improve your experience on our website. Downloading solaris images from oracle using wget rageek. Pca analyze, download and install patches for oracle solaris. Click on that highlighted link to get the below screen where you can start os patch bundle download. Megacli supports ms windows, freebsd, solaris and all major linux distributions.
Please keep in mind that megacli has been replaced with storcli and will no longer be maintained. I recently needed to download the solaris 11 repository image for seeding a new auto install server. Volume manager on solaris, patch detail sort veritas. Download solaris patch clusters from my oracle support. This license agreement agreement is a legal agreement between you or. 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. The table show which kernel patch revision is included in the solaris 10 update releases and there patch dependencies. Im delighted to announce that the solaris 10 1009 update 8 patch bundle is now available for download by customers with a solaris support contract. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 10 host. Cpi hot fix for supporting uninstall of ccs control host 5. I need to check latest kernel version in solaris 10 container.
Solaris patches installation error codes solaris blog. To install it correctly go the the lsi download site and search for megacli. Because it would be a great exercise to patch my installation of solaris. After this promotion ends, solaris 10 security fixes will remain available to everyone. Solaris sparc boot sequence the following represents a summary of the boot process for a solaris 2. Oracle solaris only depot location of the file used to correct errors found in the patchdiag. Use this hotfix when you are installing ch on solaris and your rootadministrator password of ms contains charaters, header information synopsis. 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. Megacli introduced by lsi as a command line administration of lsi megaraid controllers with megacli we can create physical raids, gather info about raids and monitor raids. The new utility will allow users to scan their solaris 9 systems, both locally and remotely, for patchable vulnerabilities and to download and install those patches automatically, said derek. I just bunched it together but you may just need one of them and most unlikely all of them at the same time. This document describes the oracle solaris image packaging system ips feature.
See the how to and resources tabs for all our patching documentation for solaris users with various levels of patching experience. Patchreport is written in perl, and does require the addition of several perl modules, libnet, datadumper, md5, libperl, and io. Megacli cheatsheet recently ive had to do extensive work with dell poweredge servers, and specifically dells that use the lsi megaraid controllers. Download the latest solaris 10 patches using patchfinder and find updated support content using the sunsolve knowledgebase. Ips tools enable you to install, upgrade, and remove software packages for the oracle solaris operating system. Megacli cheatsheet erikimh just another linux admins blog. Installing server system tools optional sun server x4.
Lsi created a command line utility called megacli for linux to manage this adapter. Patch for solaris users guide hcl software product. Alright, so we need a solarisdriver for the lsi 9240 controller. On solaris, when vxfen starts up, it waits for the vxvmrecover service to come online. I assumed the raid controller is a0,to get list of all available raid controllers megacli adpallinfo aall 2. Sun product patches, updates and firmware are now available on my oracle support, from the patches and updates tab. If your system is not connected to a ups, you should disable the physical disk cache in order to prevent data loss. Use this procedure to access and install the server system tools. For a limited time sunsolve will provide access to all solaris 10 patches. This is a short overview of solaris 10 kernel patches. Obsolete patches, incompatibilities, superseded patches, or other requirements. The solaris patch manager tool, a fullfeatured patch management tool, also provides details regarding patches.
Solaris 9 x86 package version and patches installed. How to set up hardware raid using megacli phoenixnap kb. Sun server x44 installation guide for oracle solaris. Lsi logic symbios logic megaraid sas3 3108 invader rev 02. Cpegateway, infrastructure, and settop box embedded and networking processors ethernet connectivity, switching, and phys pcie switches and bridges fiber optic modules and components leds and displays motion control encoders. Oracle provides a wget script for downloading their patches, however oracles otn doesnt allow you to login via wgetcurl, which means that oracle provided scripts.
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. I came across this in a post by steve scargall in the oracle forums, this post is a rehash of his solution. Adding a solaris patch system administration guide. This page provides the latest information on patching.
Live examples of common commands with 1 controller shown as a0 any val seen in the embedded help is typed without the despite the contradicting style and print of help. Megacli supports windows, linux, vmware, solaris, dos and free bsd. Analysis of the oracle solaris configuration, including networking, storage, and oracle solaris operating system features in use. Lsi megacli check for failed raid controller battery october 12, 2011 december 1, 2014 christopher paquin there are several tools that you can use to monitor and configure and lsi sas controller, however as i have found, some are easier than others to use and some do not always display the correct information. To determine how long a solaris 10 system has been without patching, i remotely check the following from a linux system, because gnu date is handy 1 remotely grab the datetime from the most recent thing in the patch directory. The solaris download cacher tool is an executable program that automatically downloads and caches patch packages on the windows bigfix server to facilitate. Installing server system tools optional server system tools, which include lsi megaraid storage manager lsi msm, megacli, and oracle hardware management pack are available with the oracle system assistant software and the downloaded solaris os software package. To check the state of vxvmrecover, vxfen uses the svcs command. Trying to install solaris recommended patch cluster. Install the kernel patch of a solaris 10 update release is not the same as. If you have set the operating system locale to japanese, the output of the. I am running this cluster in single user mode after that i have did reconfiguration boot as per cluster installation instruction i have tested 3 times. Unfortunately, one of the things lost was the incredible ease to locate and download patch clusters. If you need to add a patch to a diskless client system, see patching diskless client os services when you add a patch, the patchadd command calls the pkgadd command to install the patch packages from the patch directory to a local systems disk.
Megacli configuration utility for windows, dos and linux. Post solaris 10 1 kernel patches have the patchids 148888xx sparc 148889xx x86 please note that there are no more planned updates to solaris 10, so these latest kernel patchids 148888xx sparc 148889xx x86 will continue to be used for the foreseeable future. Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology. As an example, lets list all the logical volumes in the machine output may differ based on configuration.
Lsi megacli check for failed raid controller battery. This article is going to explain that how to update the solaris 11. Install megacli debian packages lsi megaraid sas query admin. For an example,if your systems are running with solaris 10 807 update4,then select that and select the right platform. I am learning solaris, with solaris 10 x86, and one of the chapters in the manual is about patching.