Ndd settings solaris 10 patches

How to set ndd values at local zone only in solaris 10. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Nfs specific tcp socket buffer tuning with solaris 10. 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. Chapter 26 adding and removing packages and patches on a solaris system with zones installed tasks solaris 10 106. In solaris 11, oracle removed the word called patches from their dictionary. For 12c db on solaris 10, the supported version is solaris 10 1 update 11 or higher 3. Solaris operating system version 10 811 u10 and later information in this document applies to any platform. How to specify parameter values using the ndd utility sun. This entry was posted in oracle 11g release 2, oracle rac, oracle solaris 10, patch installation and tagged oracle 11g release 2, oracle rac, solaris 10, solaris patch. You can force the nic into 100mbit fullduplex by disabling autonegotiation and 100mbit halfduplex capability. Solaris nic speed and duplex settings the following is a bourne shell script i wrote to determine the speed and duplex settings for all active network interfaces on a solaris system.

Solaris networking interview questions adding static routes, adding default routes, ipmp. Booting over the virtualized m2 nem 10 gigabit ethernet port. Using large pages can reduce the cpu overhead of managing a large jvm heap. Solaris 10 has a new feature boot m verbose which allows you to customize boot console output. Dynamic resource pools solaris 10 patching with svm. How to configure tcp keepalive option in solaris the. I cant ping or ping from the qfe interfaces, the onboard hme is fine. Hi, i have installed a sun qfe card on my sun ultra 5 running solaris 10. This example uses the service management facility smf in solaris to create an fmri to preserve nondefault tcp ndd settings through a reboot on solaris 10. Mar 15, 2011 this entry was posted in oracle 11g release 2, oracle rac, oracle solaris 10, patch installation and tagged oracle 11g release 2, oracle rac, solaris 10, solaris patch installation. Installing and configuring the hxge driver on a solaris sparc or x86 platform. It has had a full reinstall of solaris 10 and brought up to date with patches.

Solaris 10 and below the ndd utility is used to change the above parameters. Remember that for example, eg driver will let you manipulate settings using dladm in solaris 10, but you will not be able to do so using ndd. I wrote it to implement all of our recommendations in the article. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. Edit the following xml file according to your environment and save the file as varsvcmanifest site nddnettune. Solaris smf ndd tuning for settings not settable in etcsystem license see license for licensing details requirements. The system global tuning affects any application connections in which the application does not specify its own buffer values. This is mostly a repost of laotsaos weblog, with some tweaks and additions. Nfs specific tcp socket buffer tuning with solaris 10 update. The following tuning parameters are specific to the solaris operating system. This chapter documents current package and patch procedures on a system with installed nonglobal zones. Some of the more important settings, as the relate to speed and duplex, are as follows. Booting over the network with a sparc blade server.

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. Patch by royce williams to only query physical nic interfaces. With solaris 10 and later, it is more elegant to to smf. Remove any existing parameter setting for max shared memory. Qfe card on solaris 10 and ultra 5 oracle community. Although the ndd command is still functional in oracle solaris 11, the dladm command is the preferred command for managing these properties. Although the ndd command is still functional in oracle solaris 11, the ipadm command is the preferred tool for customizing network parameters. First of all, use code tags when you post any code or data samples so others can easily read your code. Next one only for solaris 10 0509 update 7 or earlier set ip. Recommended patchset for solaris 10 january 2016 solaris blog. Comparing the ndd command and nf configuration to the dladm command. Network troubleshooting tips for the solaris 9 os oracle. Scott lynn put together a very informative blog on solaris 10.

Its using local mac address so each card has its own mac. Hello, we are using sun netra x4200 servers with solaris 5. This section describes how to modify and display parameter values using the ndd utility before you use the ndd utility to get or set a parameter for a hxge device, you must specify the device instance for the utility use the ifconfig command to identify the instance associated with hxge device. 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. Jul 28, 2011 viewing and changing speed and duplex in solaris. Solaris os specific edupert kb geant federated confluence. How would i add a kernel patch to a jumpstart image.

Now sometimes the ndd command uses a generic device file, e. I hope oracle is not going to abandon solaris 10 in sake of their new solaris 11 express release. Compared to the ndd command, the ipadm command provides the following advantages provides information about each tcpip property, such as a propertys current and default value, as well as the range of possible values. Solaris 10 10 08 operating system patch list solaris 10.

There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. Correct, its not possible to get solaris 10 patches with out a valid support contract. How to preserve an ndd1m tcp tuning configuration through a. Note this parameter has been superseded on the solaris 10 operating system by the. Description ndd gets and sets selected configuration parameters in some kernel drivers. Tuning tcp settings on solaris 10 systems sun java system. Setting udp and tcp kernel parameters manually oracle docs. The patches that are listed in this chapter have been applied to the solaris 10 operating system in one of the following ways. For a limited time sunsolve will provide access to all solaris 10 patches. In oracle solaris 10, you use the ndd command to customize network parameters tunables and some driverspecific properties.

For solaris 9 and solaris 10, the default value is 128. Pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches. Following command was set up in startup script on solaris 8 servers improved network transfers of files from one server to the another doubled transfer speed. In 2008, his blog pointed out that with solaris 9 and earlier, an rc3 script would be used to specify ndd parameters at boot up. One of the first signs of trouble on the network is a loss of communications by one or more hosts. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool. Hello everyone, i created an ndd tuning script in etcrc3.

Installing oracle 11g r2 rac on solaris 10 february 6, 20 july 11, 2015 farhat zaman rac, solaris host os. Operating system, required patches and minimum versions. Due to job changes i had to put this on hold for a while. Can you suggest how to know the root cause of these alarms. 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. According to this proposal, the api for setting the congestion control. Solaris 10 systems with soft rings enabled may have performance issues. This article is going to explain that how to update the solaris 11. Depending on the size of your system, the patch process can take over an hour to complete. Quickstart tuning guide for oracle solaris running. The ultimate solaris networking interview questions the geek diary. If a single host suddenly develops a problem, the network interface might be the cause. Full duplex settings for network interface my sysad. Currently, ndd only supports the drivers that implement the tcpip internet protocol family.

Here is the basic solaris interview questions which are commonly asked in solaris l1 or l2 level 1 or l2 interviews. Currently, ndd only supports the tcpip kernel drivers. Once thd new ndd settings are done in global zone, does local zone pick up the new ndd value right away or. Initially, the ndd command was used to set up the 100mb interface in full duplex mode. Configuration and installation of a solaris 8solaris 9 container.

I was wondering if this is the best way to implement these changes. Solaris filesystem configuration ufs, zfs, disk partitioning, raid. However, it is a good idea to bring it to single user mode before applying the patch cluster. Still getting the problem where only one network port works at any one time. These changes are not preserved across reboots, and therefore placing the appropriate command in a startup script such as etcrc2. How to check interface duplex and speed using nddkstat on. A gigabit capable port on some solaris 10 systems made by broadcom has difficulty negotiating speed and duplex settings with cisco network switches. Depending on version of solaris and the hardware its running on, you will either use ndd utility or use kstat or dladm commands to change speed and duplex. Solaris 10 kernel adjust etcsystem parameters below and reboot the system. Since these parameters are usually tightly coupled to the implementation, they are likely to change from release to release. Operating system configuration settings for oracle 11g and solaris 10 oracles health check utility recommends that you set certain parameters when installing on solaris 10. However it appears you dont need solaris 10 patches since youre running solaris express. Auto negotiation of speed and duplex failing on solaris 10.

Chapter 26 adding and removing packages and patches on a. Svm, solaris troubleshooting,sun cluster,root mirroring,soft partition,dns,nfs,file system issue script to grep tcpipudpicmp settings via ndd monday, august 30, 2010 at 10. 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. Getting solaris 10 patches with smpatch, pca and oracle. The patches contained in this patchset are considered the most. Patches released after the solaris 10 10 08 release can be found on the my oracle support. How to check the interface speed, duplexautoneg settings and status using ndd and kstat. Presumably, it is not yet integrated into the oracle support portal and solaris system utilities. Jun 23, 2007 the other day i was having problems auto negotiating duplex settings between a remote switch and my workstation. Support for solaris 10 and linux operating systems software applications written to the solaris application binary interface can run on new ultrasparc t1based systems without modification for more information on the sun fire t2000 server, including benchmarks and the swap space, watts and performance metric, see. But we are not seeing any hardware related problems or any switch problems. The patches that are listed in this chapter have been applied to the solaris 10 operating system in. Solaris 10, and solaris 9 with patches, supports tcp multidata transmit mdt. I first tried to put the tuning parameters in etcsystem, but it does not seem to take.

Each driver chooses which parameters to make visible using ndd. Ive disabled ipf, checked the ndd settings match the hme interface. 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. 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. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. Jun 07, 2012 it is easy to specify ndd settings from a shell, but they only apply to the running os and dont survive reboots. The way to do this is, we reencapsulate the unencapsulated rootmirror disk under svm and mirror it with the original root disk. To resolve the situation, the bge interface in question was manually set to 100baset full duplex as follows. The content is drawn from transitioning from oracle solaris 10 to oracle solaris 11 and other sources in the oracle solaris documentation. Do not use these on a web server or database server. On solaris 10 systems, the simplest way to tune tcp settings is to create a simple smf service as follows.

While the default settings for tcpip on solaris 10 are appropriate for most situations, some application vendors recommend or require particular tcpip tuning. Download the latest solaris 10 patches using patchfinder and find updated support content using the sunsolve knowledgebase. The mac address setting is correct and obp is current. Solaris kernel tuning for security broadcom community. You can also go through the below interface questions on specific category.

Solaris 10 1008 operating system patch list solaris 10. Solaris operating environment network settings for security updated for solaris 9 operating environment the ndd command. How to specify parameter values using the ndd utility. The solaris 10 10 08 patch list provides a list of patches preapplied to the solaris 10 10 08 release. Oracle does provide a procedure called transitioning an oracle solaris 10 instance to an oracle solaris 11 system, enabling you to port your solaris 10 global or nonglobal zone to solaris 11.

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 following tables summarize differences between oracle solaris 10 and 11 with emphasis on the benefits of oracle solaris 11. This is changed as of solaris 10 update 10 0811 with these patches. But later, the etcsystem file was modified to make the settings permanent following a reboot. Quickstart tuning guide for oracle solaris running databases and business intelligence applications with sun storage 7000 unified storage systems. How to troubleshoot solaris 10 smf service management. Examples of ndd setting being necessary include performance tuning, as described in nfs tuning for hpc streaming applications, and installing oracle database 11gr2 on solaris 10 with prerequisites, as show here. Ndd use the ndd command to check or set network interface configurables.

Image packaging system ips a state of the art, network repositorybased. The only tool available to solaris system administrators for tuning kernel parameters is ndd. To ensure enough tcpip ephemeral ports, use the ndd network device driver utility to check. On oracle solaris 10, use the ndd command to check your current range for ephemeral ports. However, some ndd options do not have equivalent ipadm subcommands. If you dont have a solaris setup to work,just install solaris as guest operating system on vmware workstations and get a hands on experience. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Solaris 9 ndd set issues hello forum, i have a solaris 9 sun fire v240 server and sun fire v440 recently we made changes and installed a new switch which both of. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. If a host refuses to come up at all the first time it is added to the network, the problem might lie in one of the configuration files, or in the network interface. In this release, this chapter has been completely revised. Thanks to william favorite for fixing the script to work with twoletter network interfaces e. Keil, but i have probed perform the command kstat and that dont work, i dont know if that command dont work only in v65x. I have noticed ndd link failure alarms on one of our servers.

However, you will end up with a nonglobal zone, even if your original system only had a single zone and if you use solaris but dont know what. On oracle solaris 10, use the ndd command to check your current range for ephemeral. Here is a summary of some common parameters and how to set them. Oracle 11g release 2 installation on solaris 10 32bit. Grid infrastructure installation and upgrade guide for oracle solaris. For 12c db on solaris 11, the supported version is solaris 11. Installing oracle 11g r2 rac on solaris 10 pak dba. Remember that for example, eg driver will let you manipulate settings using dladm in solaris 10, but you will not be able to do so.

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