Solaris10 self paced video learning puppet automation self paced video. Understanding vmstat output explained april 06, 2011 linux tips. Patch management for solaris 10 server oracle community. 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. Memory usage, free and used, using sar, top and vmstat in. I have spacewalk implemented in my environment to manage patches for all linux servers. Old kernels may report blocks as 512 bytes, 2048 bytes, or 4096 bytes. To run vmstat with ten updates, five seconds apart, type. Now we will see how to calculate free memory and swapformula. To add and remove patches on solaris systems, use the patchadd and patchrm commands, which.
The first report produced gives averages since the last reboot. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. The vmstat command can also display statistics on swapping, cache flushing, and interrupts table 114 output from the vmstat. Linux vmstat command help and examples computer hope. After quite successful evaluation of running mysql on solaris 10 we decided to move all. 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. Thus on solaris, the items to watch are the pi,po, and sr columns of vmstat.
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. Not all the time top command will give right values. This post is for the system admins who still wants to use the traditional method of patching for whatever reason they want to. How to read vmstat on sun solaris and what are the key. For more general system statistics, you can also use e sar and iostat. The showrev p command provides a list of all patches that were applied to the installed system, regardless of how they were applied. This book is for anyone who is responsible for administering one or more systems that run the oracle solaris operating system os. Correct, its not possible to get solaris 10 patches with out a valid support contract. I am new to solaris and i need some assistance on applying patches for solaris server in our environment. The patches contained in this patchset are considered the most. 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.
A beginners guide to solaris performance monitoring and. 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. How to calculate sar and vmstat memory values unixarena. Jun 01, 2018 vmstat is a tool that collects and reports data about your systems memory, swap, and processor resource utilization in real time. Regarding to oracle security alert cve list, we need to apply solaris recommended bundle patch instead of apply one by one patch.
This website to share our expertise and knowledge on linux, unix, windows, hardware, security, cloud and open source. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. 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. Kindly let me know the best practices for managing the solaris server for patching. At the moment i have set up a script to run vmstat once every x. Realtime performance monitoring vmstat, iostat, mpstat etc. As you know, prstat and vmstat are used to check system performance. Solaris has another useful metric in the vmstat output. 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. Therefore, these patches are not located in the varsadm patch directory.
The first line of the report will contain the average values since the last time the computer. Patches may only be loaded on the global zone but not on. Hi all, i have a server running an oracle database that is part of a solaris m5000. Oracle solaris commands such as vmstat and mpstat can be used within. 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. I know i have serious problems and the system is about to crash when id falls below 10. How to read vmstat on sun solaris and what are the key items. However, patches cannot be backed out of the solaris 10 release. Here a notes for solaris 10 patching update that can be used as reference.
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. 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. 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. This article will show how dtrace can be used to determine which. How do i figure out target drives for vmstat and iostat. 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. However it appears you dont need solaris 10 patches since youre running solaris express. 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. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 11 host. On mp multiprocessor systems, vmstat averages the number of cpus into the output. 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. If the scan rate is nonzero, then there is memory pressure on the server.
How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. Users of vmstat can specify a sampling interval which permits observing system activity in nearreal time. Different solaris patch and update levels run at the same time on the same. On sun solaris i am running the below vmstat and need to know key items to look for in the output. Select the monitoring options of your choice for example. Solaris patching documentation center oracle technology. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root. Other times, a patch may come in as a jar file indicated by a. 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. I may have posted this to the wrong forum solaris 10 features, so i am reposting here, sorry. Using dtrace to understand mpstat and vmstat output. Memory usage, free and used, using sar, top and vmstat in solaris. On unixlike operating systems, the vmstat command reports virtual memory statistics and is used to help identify performance bottlenecks. Impact of swap space on system performance for the solaris 9 and 10 os.
How to find available and used memory in solaris os. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware. To view a list of the different options available with the vmstat command type vmstat. Linux vmstat does not count itself as a running process. Advanced administration for device naming conventions for disks.
Scott lynn put together a very informative blog on solaris 10 extended support detailing the benefits that customers can get by. My understanding is that showrev p would show patches but not the date they were installed. Using logical domains in oracle solaris 10 is a different process than. Handy solaris commands hw config, swap, patches etc.
Recommended patchset for solaris 10 january 2016 solaris blog. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. Getting solaris 10 patches with smpatch, pca and oracle. For solaris 10 patches, use the unzip command to extract the patch files, as follows. 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. 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. Quite a few administrators are aware of prstat but dont see benefits of using its format which somewhat differs from top. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. Most of the unix beginners are very confused with sar and vmstat outputs. Pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches. Like many others, i am a big fan of live upgrade when it comes to upgradingpatching solaris. Configuring, implementing logical domains in oracle solaris 10.
Sparc patch list oracle solaris 10 811 patch list oracle docs. Why youre monitoring solaris virtual memory wrong logicmonitor. Displaying virtual memory statistics vmstat oracle solaris. Impact of swap space on system performance for the solaris. If you dont specify a count, the count defaults to infinity, but you can stop output with ctrlc. Solaris 10 patches come in zip format, such as 10494502. 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. This information applies to systems that run the solaris 9 or 10 operating system. Patch installation instructions for solaris systems sun. Mar 12, 20 most of the unix beginners are very confused with sar and vmstat outputs.
Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool. If relevant, a state change message is included in the vmstat output, in one of the following forms. Unix file permissions explained sounds basic, but you may learn something new here. The solaris 10 software includes a known and tested level of patches. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 10 host. These patches were applied when the solaris 10 os was created. I wrote a perl script that uses the same logic as prstat.
Earlier it has global is solaris 10, container is 10. Ksar graphical tool also very useful to analysis bottleneck. It can be used to determine the root cause of performance and issues related to memory use. Im trying to find out a way to display the latest patches installed in a solaris box. The sun patch page provides all the patches for your specific system configuration. 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. 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. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. 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. 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.
But we have to make sure backup everything include create zfs snapshot and splitting zfs mirror for rollback plan. 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. To add and remove patches on solaris systems, use the patchadd and patchrm commands, which are provided with the os. These utilities provide numerous useful performance counters, but dont provide any details on why each performance counter contains a given value. Patch installation instructions for solaris systems sun java. And a really small number of solaris sysadmins really know how to use the prstat command properly. 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. In most of the occasion they are not able to determine the free memory and free swap in order to find the memory bottleneck. List of patches and date installed my understanding is that showrev p would show patches but not the date they were installed. Does anyone know of a command that would show the list of patches installed and the date it was installed.
Without options, vmstat displays a oneline summary of the virtual memory activity since the system was booted. How to find available and used memory in solaris os using. 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. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. I want to monitor the performance metrics of solaris 10 server like average memory and cpu usage. Is it possible to identify a solaris 10 patch cluster from. Analysis of the oracle solaris configuration, including networking, storage, and oracle solaris operating system features in use. Lazysystemadmin is a useful howto website that covers system administration, operating systems, cloud, devops, virtualization, scripts and video tutorials. The vmstat command can also display statistics on swapping, cache flushing, and interrupts.
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. Anyway, a thirdparty manages the zone and unfortunately is not helpfulfriendly to assist me on how to check memory usage. Displaying virtual memory statistics vmstat oracle. There is nothing in solaris 10 and earlier patches to identify the date, and this is on purpose. Understanding vmstat output explained lazysystemadmin. Solaris administrators with solid linux experience are usually installing top on their systems because of convenience. I am refereed by my friend to this blog and i also want to refer my other friends to this blog. Solaris 10 1008 operating system patch list solaris 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. You might run echo memstat mdb k and parse its output. Understanding the differences between prstat and vmstat. Impact of swap space on system performance for the solaris 9. Sometimes, however, the results returned by prstat show a huge difference from those returned by vmstat.