Hi all, i have a server running an oracle database that is part of a solaris m5000. I have spacewalk implemented in my environment to manage patches for all linux servers. Solaris 10 1008 operating system patch list solaris 10. This book is for anyone who is responsible for administering one or more systems that run the oracle solaris operating system os. Analysis of the oracle solaris configuration, including networking, storage, and oracle solaris operating system features in use. Scope the 3rd part in the vmstat series diggs deeper into the virtual memory statistics and troubleshooting virtual memory bottlenecks along with some other tools like prstat. I am refereed by my friend to this blog and i also want to refer my other friends to this blog. On mp multiprocessor systems, vmstat averages the number of cpus into the output. Patch installation instructions for solaris systems sun java.
How to read vmstat on sun solaris and what are the key items. How to calculate sar and vmstat memory values unixarena. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. How do i figure out target drives for vmstat and iostat. Is it possible to identify a solaris 10 patch cluster from. The first line of the report will contain the average values since the last time the computer. Realtime performance monitoring vmstat, iostat, mpstat etc.
For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root. Select the monitoring options of your choice for example. This article explains how virtual swap space, physical disk swap space, and physical memory affect system performance on systems running the solaris 9 or 10 operating system. Regarding to oracle security alert cve list, we need to apply solaris recommended bundle patch instead of apply one by one patch. Sep 26, 2012 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. 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. The showrev p command provides a list of all patches that were applied to the installed system, regardless of how they were applied. And a really small number of solaris sysadmins really know how to use the prstat command properly. Impact of swap space on system performance for the solaris 9. I know i have serious problems and the system is about to crash when id falls below 10. 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. This website to share our expertise and knowledge on linux, unix, windows, hardware, security, cloud and open source. If you dont specify a count, the count defaults to infinity, but you can stop output with ctrlc.
Pacemaker parallel processing patching performance tuning printers quick howto raid rhel rras samba san sap scripts selinux shell sles solaris solutions squid ssh ssl storage sudo suse linux swap tcp. 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. Patches may only be loaded on the global zone but not on. Memory usage, free and used, using sar, top and vmstat in. Solaris administrators with solid linux experience are usually installing top on their systems because of convenience. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. The vmstat command can also display statistics on swapping, cache flushing, and interrupts. Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology. I may have posted this to the wrong forum solaris 10 features, so i am reposting here, sorry. Download pca for system registered with oracle csi. List of patches and date installed my understanding is that showrev p would show patches but not the date they were installed. Sparc patch list oracle solaris 10 811 patch list oracle docs. Different solaris patch and update levels run at the same time on the same.
As you know, prstat and vmstat are used to check system performance. The vmstat command can also display statistics on swapping, cache flushing, and interrupts table 114 output from the vmstat. What to look for in vmstat unix vmstat command, identifying cpu bottlenecks with vmstat, display the number of cpus in ibm aix and hpux, display number of cpus in solaris, display number of cpus in linux. After quite successful evaluation of running mysql on solaris 10 we decided to move all. These patches were applied when the solaris 10 os was created. Recommended patchset for solaris 10 january 2016 solaris blog.
Patch installation instructions for solaris systems before you install the solaris patch, make sure that you have backed up the files listed in preinstallation considerations. Advanced administration for device naming conventions for disks. Users of vmstat can specify a sampling interval which permits observing system activity in nearreal time. For more general system statistics, you can also use e sar and iostat. Solaris 10 patches come in zip format, such as 10494502. As per part of take over i need to apply latest security patch in solaris 10 zone1,zone2 and zone3, but global is solaris 11. The solaris 10 software includes a known and tested level of patches.
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 by iain thomson in san francisco 19 apr 2017 at 00. This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware. In a system with 8 gb memory, we have oracle9i database enterprise edition version 9. Now that we have verified that vmstat is installed on our system lets explore some of its options. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool. Memory usage, free and used, using sar, top and vmstat in solaris. Sometimes, however, the results returned by prstat show a huge difference from those returned by vmstat. Correct, its not possible to get solaris 10 patches with out a valid support contract. This is the pages scanned by the page scanner, a kernel thread which runs when the amount of free memory falls below a threshold, typically 164th of total physical memory.
Thus on solaris, the items to watch are the pi,po, and sr columns of vmstat. For servers with solaris 10 os at, or near, update 1 106 or update 2 606, if nonglobal zones are already configured and running, patching these servers at single user mode will encounter issues. Not all the time top command will give right values. Memory usage, free and used, using sar, top and vmstat in solaris zonecontainer presumably this is referred to as a zone within a cluster, not sure if i get the terminology right. Displaying virtual memory statistics vmstat you can use the vmstat command to report virtual memory statistics and information about system events such as cpu load, paging, number of context switches, device interrupts, and system calls.
There is nothing in solaris 10 and earlier patches to identify the date, and this is on purpose. Patch management for solaris 10 server oracle community. My understanding is that showrev p would show patches but not the date they were installed. This version of pca patch check advanced allows to maintain solaris os patches using oracle solaris premier subscriptions and oracle csi account instead of the sunsolve account with sun contract. 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 by iain thomson in san francisco 19 apr 2017 at 00. Earlier it has global is solaris 10, container is 10. Handy solaris commands hw config, swap, patches etc. If the scan rate is nonzero, then there is memory pressure on the server. Solaris has another useful metric in the vmstat output.
These utilities provide numerous useful performance counters, but dont provide any details on why each performance counter contains a given value. On unixlike operating systems, the vmstat command reports virtual memory statistics and is used to help identify performance bottlenecks. Why youre monitoring solaris virtual memory wrong logicmonitor. The patches contained in this patchset are considered the most. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgradingpatching solaris. Anyway, a thirdparty manages the zone and unfortunately is not helpfulfriendly to assist me on how to check memory usage. Oct 26, 2011 for servers with solaris 10 os at, or near, update 1 106 or update 2 606, if nonglobal zones are already configured and running, patching these servers at single user mode will encounter issues. Impact of swap space on system performance for the solaris. Mar 12, 20 most of the unix beginners are very confused with sar and vmstat outputs.
Old kernels may report blocks as 512 bytes, 2048 bytes, or 4096 bytes. To view a list of the different options available with the vmstat command type vmstat. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Using dtrace to understand mpstat and vmstat output. Patch installation instructions for solaris systems sun. The first report produced gives averages since the last reboot. Here a notes for solaris 10 patching update that can be used as reference. Linux vmstat does not count itself as a running process.
There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. At the moment i have set up a script to run vmstat once every x. If relevant, a state change message is included in the vmstat output, in one of the following forms. Therefore, these patches are not located in the varsadm patch directory. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. Impact of swap space on system performance for the solaris 9 and 10 os. Kindly let me know the best practices for managing the solaris server for patching. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 11 host. However, patches cannot be backed out of the solaris 10 release.
Understanding the differences between prstat and vmstat. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 10 host. Ksar graphical tool also very useful to analysis bottleneck. With solaris 10, patching the global zone will install the patches on all zones by default, unless the affected package isnt installed on the target zone or you explicitly ask to install the patch on the global zone only g. The solaris operating system provides the mpstat and vmstat utilties to view cpu and virtual memory performance statistics. I want to monitor the performance metrics of solaris 10 server like average memory and cpu usage. I am new to solaris and i need some assistance on applying patches for solaris server in our environment. If the scan rate is above the slowscan rate which defaults to 100 for more than a second, then the system will be more aggressively looking for pages to free.
However it appears you dont need solaris 10 patches since youre running solaris express. Using logical domains in oracle solaris 10 is a different process than. Understanding vmstat output explained april 06, 2011 linux tips. To run vmstat with ten updates, five seconds apart, type. This article will show how dtrace can be used to determine which. Understanding vmstat output explained lazysystemadmin. The book covers a broad range of solaris system administration topics such as managing user accounts, diskless clients, booting a system, using the service management facility smf, and managing software and patches. How to read vmstat on sun solaris and what are the key. Other times, a patch may come in as a jar file indicated by a. Now we will see how to calculate free memory and swapformula. Oracle solaris commands such as vmstat and mpstat can be used within. To add and remove patches on solaris systems, use the patchadd and patchrm commands, which are provided with the os.
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. Getting solaris 10 patches with smpatch, pca and oracle. But we have to make sure backup everything include create zfs snapshot and splitting zfs mirror for rollback plan. To add and remove patches on solaris systems, use the patchadd and patchrm commands, which. Jun 01, 2018 vmstat is a tool that collects and reports data about your systems memory, swap, and processor resource utilization in real time. The recommended os patchset solaris 10 sparc provides the minimum set of patches needed to address security and sun alert issues, and selected issues identified by oracle proactive services and the oracle technical support center, for the solaris 10 operating system for sparc. On sun solaris i am running the below vmstat and need to know key items to look for in the output. Linux vmstat command help and examples computer hope. If you are able to regularly patch your systems, then apply the recommended patch cluster, which one can download if one has an oracle technology network login gratis which is tied to a valid support contract non gratis. For solaris 10 patches, use the unzip command to extract the patch files, as follows. How to find available and used memory in solaris os using. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Unix file permissions explained sounds basic, but you may learn something new here. Displaying virtual memory statistics vmstat oracle solaris.
I wrote a perl script that uses the same logic as prstat. Most of the unix beginners are very confused with sar and vmstat outputs. Without options, vmstat displays a oneline summary of the virtual memory activity since the system was booted. Pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. Displaying virtual memory statistics vmstat oracle.
Does anyone know of a command that would show the list of patches installed and the date it was installed. The sun patch page provides all the patches for your specific system configuration. Users of vmstat can specify a sampling interval which permits observing system activity in nearreal time the vmstat tool is available on most unix and unixlike operating systems, such. Quite a few administrators are aware of prstat but dont see benefits of using its format which somewhat differs from top. Im trying to find out a way to display the latest patches installed in a solaris box. Solaris10 self paced video learning puppet automation self paced video. Scott lynn put together a very informative blog on solaris 10 extended support detailing the benefits that customers can get by. The 2nd part in the vmstat series goes through all the fields in the vmstat command output and how to analyze them to troubleshoot a performance bottleneck.
You might run echo memstat mdb k and parse its output. Configuring, implementing logical domains in oracle solaris 10. Understanding the differences between prstat and vmstat output in the solaris os victor feng, march 2008. This information applies to systems that run the solaris 9 or 10 operating system.
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