Apr 18, 2003 this sample chapter covers the installation section of the solaris 8 system adminstrator exam. Using smpatch to apply solaris cluster patches and other. To get a complete list of devices and their status use the cfgadm command as follows. Sata devices that are connected and configured on the system are shown as attachment point name extension. 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. Then cfgadm al reports disk as unconfigured as expected. Repair library error failed to configure any device on fca. Volume manager on solaris, patch detail sort veritas. Scsi hotplugging with the cfgadm command oracle solaris. Now after running metadettach for submirrors on that disk, i want to unconfigure the faulty disk using cfgadm c uncofigure commandand then put new one and configure that. Hi, one of 2 local disks on v480 running solaris 10 and svm failed. I installed the san foundation kit, ibmsdd drivers, solaris patch 10897450. These best practices are collected from various customer feedback and proven results with pure storage array.
Learn how to install solaris 8, add and remove packages, list installed packages, add and remove patches, and list installed patches. Pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches. San configuration in solaris unix and linux forums. Hi all, im trying to remove luns from solaris 10 box. After the luns are unmapped using array management or the command line, solaris also displays the. With the changed kernel, the command is retried offline. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Quick fix trouble to boot from san lun in solaris 10 on. It happened only when i wanted to configure disks when i saw the following message.
Aug 21, 20 i am not happy to post nontechnical posts on unixarena. As per the compatibility matrix, solaris 10 update 8 is required as a. Failed unconfigure command cfgadm might succeed later without notice 6483258 sometimes the cfgadm c unconfigure command fails because of pending ios. Mar 09, 2005 on solaris 10, with the san software builtin, however, im getting different behavior. Sun has released a security patch addressing the following issues. Replacing a failed drive in zfs on solaris 0 comments newest first oldest first flat nested no comments threaded the following comments are owned by whomever posted them. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. Sata controller and port multiplier device ports are represented by attachment points in the device tree. Experienced solaris users may remember the old maintenance updates mu which we shipped for solaris 8 and older releases. But i felt this post will be helpful for solaris administrators to find the latest os patch bundles from oracle. Sep 07, 2012 hello everyone, im very new to solaris, in fact ive just installed open solaris 10 as a virtual machine on proxmox and started tinkering with it. Several errors still persist because zones are configured but no access to luns given yet. Patches fails with unhandled subprocess exit status 5 exit n branch patch fails with below errors. Sun patch check is a simple opensource utility from titania that runs in unix or linux systems to check the patch installation status in a sun solaris server running on a sparc or intel platform and compare it to its own database of the latest recommended patches for that version of solaris operating system.
The following section describes behavior changes in certain commands and standards in solaris 10 os. I know how to do lun rescan under linux using echo command. May 19, 2009 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 was trying to upgrade to the latest patch level, but in single user mode while updating patch cluster i get. Checking patches that you specified for installation. This article documents several general configuration parameters that apply to any solaris environment. Sep 04, 20 quick fix trouble to boot from san lun in solaris 10 on sparc by ramdev published september 4, 20 updated july 2, 2015 it is common for server environments to configure boot disks on external disks so that they can be easily migratedmoved for different reasons. I would like to patch the server by installing patch cluster on solaris 10 zones.
Application of this patch should have succeeded this failure is unexpected. The device must support the report luns scsi command, and scsi3 inquiry. Solaris 10 kernel patchid sequence oracle solaris blog. Patch administration installing and maintaining solaris 8. Solaristm operating systemos will continue to report this error, every time it boots, until. 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. Solaris unix lun rescan with cfgadm command nixcraft. The library is a vtl from emc, but solaris see some kind of ultrium. August 30, 20 by lingeswaran r 10 comments applications and databases storage requirement on the servers will be keep on increase day by day.
As unix admin, we have to provide those patch bundles information to. The library is a vtl from emc, but solaris see some kind of ultrium device. I realize it doesnt help you, but i though the ess 800 was only supported on solaris 9 and 10. The book covers a range of oracle solaris system administration topics related to managing removable media, disks and devices and file systems. We are installing solaris 10 update 11 x8664 and have a small problem.
Solaris patches installation error codes solaris blog. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. What tools can be used to interrogate the storage and build a mental image of what you have been presented with. This article is an overview of best practice configuration. The terms attachment point and sata port can be used interchangeably. Storage team has assigned 2 luns to the system and i can see it from the. Its similar to the solaris 89 patchset installation codes, but there are more codes added to the list. The solaris cfgadm command can be used to configure system devices.
Solaris commands and standards solaris 10 707 hw release. Using cfgadm to display luns on solaris hosts if you are trying to configure and unconfigure luns on a solaris host, you may be suprised to find that the default cfgadm al output doesnt display the luns on your system. Ads are annoying but they help continue reading solaris unix lun rescan with cfgadm command. Cleaning os after removing luns cfgadm syscookbook. The failed disk in any solaris servers can be removed basically using these 2 commands. How do i rescan lun under solaris unix operating systems. This book is for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems that run the oracle solaris 11 release. It is now also possible again to use smpatch update manager on 3rd party hardware. Postinstallation patches for the sun solaris 10 update 1 os 72. May 01, 2009 apache2 australia bfu blogs competition dhcp dtrace dtrace php grub hostname inetadm ipsec jumpstart ldd nis nodename opencsw opensolaris oracle pam patches php pid provider pkgget pxe raidz s8ma smf solaris solaris 8 solaris 10 solaris books solaris express solaris install solaris os solaris zones ssh sun cluster sun microsystems truss uname. This comes is very useful for displaying the status of the devices. Topics are described for both sparc and x86 based systems, where appropriate. In the case of activecluster configurations, a path will be in a standby state during a resync operation, but is not available to perfom io, and should not be considered as operational.
How to use cfgadm configure in solaris computer how to. How to remove a failed disk using luxadm and cfgadm the. Solaris 10 commad line guide configure tape and storage disk mirroring using solaris volume manager 5 responses to solaris 10 commad line guide adding new disk. Apr 16, 2008 the solaris 10 508 patch bundle, which is now available on sunsolve ill add a blog entry about it later, provides the equivalent set of patches to the solaris 10 508 release image, but does \not\ include new packages. After luns are properly removed from veritas volume manager and uninitialized i tried to remove it from the system by cfgadm. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and before choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. Aborting due to failure while applying patch 11883336. Aug 29, 2011 it is now possible again to use the inbuilt solaris 10 patch automation utility, smpatch update manager, to download patches for products such as oracle solaris cluster and oracle solaris studio, as well as oracle solaris operating system patches. Solaris considers any path that appears to the os as anything but failed to be operational. Solaris 10 u11 live upgrade errors when patching an abe on.
Customers would like to install latest os patch bundles to keep their systems update to date. Problem with cfgadm and fc tape library showing 14 of 4 messages. Please assess cause of failure and verify system integrity before proceeding. I must do a reconfiguration reboot to get the storage array to see my new server, and after it is zoned and luns are mapped, i am able to do a cfgadm as above and it sees the luns. Adblock detected my website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to my visitors. Note this issue was originally listed as cr 7092982. Fchba library what was previously known as the storage networking. Such disk writes causes scsi driver to report errors for write protected luns. Dec 18, 2008 solaris 10 commad line guide configure tape and storage disk mirroring using solaris volume manager 5 responses to solaris 10 commad line guide adding new disk. Dmp emc asl array support library is modified to handle. Using cfgadm to display luns on solaris hosts prefetch. Sata hotplugging with the cfgadm command oracle solaris.
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