I first tried to put the tuning parameters in etcsystem, but it does not seem to take. I wrote it to implement all of our recommendations in the article. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. How to check interface duplex and speed using nddkstat on.
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. Full duplex settings for network interface my sysad. 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. Ive disabled ipf, checked the ndd settings match the hme interface. The ultimate solaris networking interview questions the geek diary. 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. In solaris 11, oracle removed the word called patches from their dictionary. Solaris networking interview questions adding static routes, adding default routes, ipmp. Solaris 10 has a new feature boot m verbose which allows you to customize boot console output. 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. Once thd new ndd settings are done in global zone, does local zone pick up the new ndd value right away or.
Network troubleshooting tips for the solaris 9 os oracle. Next one only for solaris 10 0509 update 7 or earlier set ip. How to troubleshoot solaris 10 smf service management. Download the latest solaris 10 patches using patchfinder and find updated support content using the sunsolve knowledgebase. 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. The mac address setting is correct and obp is current. How to configure tcp keepalive option in solaris the.
Some of the more important settings, as the relate to speed and duplex, are as follows. Still getting the problem where only one network port works at any one time. Can you suggest how to know the root cause of these alarms. Patches released after the solaris 10 10 08 release can be found on the my oracle support. 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. Image packaging system ips a state of the art, network repositorybased. Correct, its not possible to get solaris 10 patches with out a valid support contract. Remove any existing parameter setting for max shared memory. 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. Installing and configuring the hxge driver on a solaris sparc or x86 platform. Solaris 10 1008 operating system patch list solaris 10. I hope oracle is not going to abandon solaris 10 in sake of their new solaris 11 express release.
It has had a full reinstall of solaris 10 and brought up to date with patches. 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. Installing oracle 11g r2 rac on solaris 10 february 6, 20 july 11, 2015 farhat zaman rac, solaris host os. 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. Do not use these on a web server or database server. How to specify parameter values using the ndd utility. Solaris smf ndd tuning for settings not settable in etcsystem license see license for licensing details requirements. 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. 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.
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. Hi, i have installed a sun qfe card on my sun ultra 5 running solaris 10. How to specify parameter values using the ndd utility sun. How to set ndd values at local zone only in solaris 10. On solaris 10 systems, the simplest way to tune tcp settings is to create a simple smf service as follows. On oracle solaris 10, use the ndd command to check your current range for ephemeral ports. Pca is a perl script which generates lists of installed and missing patches for oracle solaris systems and optionally downloads and installs patches.
Jun 23, 2007 the other day i was having problems auto negotiating duplex settings between a remote switch and my workstation. This chapter documents current package and patch procedures on a system with installed nonglobal zones. You can force the nic into 100mbit fullduplex by disabling autonegotiation and 100mbit halfduplex capability. Solaris 10 systems with soft rings enabled may have performance issues. To resolve the situation, the bge interface in question was manually set to 100baset full duplex as follows. I have noticed ndd link failure alarms on one of our servers. Comparing the ndd command and nf configuration to the dladm command.
This article is going to explain that how to update the solaris 11. Recommended patchset for solaris 10 january 2016 solaris blog. If a single host suddenly develops a problem, the network interface might be the cause. 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. The content is drawn from transitioning from oracle solaris 10 to oracle solaris 11 and other sources in the oracle solaris documentation. Currently, ndd only supports the drivers that implement the tcpip internet protocol family. In oracle solaris 10, you use the ndd command to customize network parameters tunables and some driverspecific properties. Ndd use the ndd command to check or set network interface configurables. Quickstart tuning guide for oracle solaris running databases and business intelligence applications with sun storage 7000 unified storage systems. Nfs specific tcp socket buffer tuning with solaris 10. The solaris 10 10 08 patch list provides a list of patches preapplied to the solaris 10 10 08 release.
On oracle solaris 10, use the ndd command to check your current range for ephemeral. The following tuning parameters are specific to the solaris operating system. However it appears you dont need solaris 10 patches since youre running solaris express. 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. 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 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. Thanks to william favorite for fixing the script to work with twoletter network interfaces e. Jul 03, 2012 solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards.
Depending on the size of your system, the patch process can take over an hour to complete. If i use ndd command to change it, it will only last until the next reboot but i need to set it permanently. The patches that are listed in this chapter have been applied to the solaris 10 operating system in. Initially, the ndd command was used to set up the 100mb interface in full duplex mode. 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. Operating system configuration settings for oracle 11g and. Since these parameters are usually tightly coupled to the implementation, they are likely to change from release to release. Keil, but i have probed perform the command kstat and that dont work, i dont know if that command dont work only in v65x. The patches contained in this patchset are considered the most.
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. 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. Here is a summary of some common parameters and how to set them. How would i add a kernel patch to a jumpstart image. The way to do this is, we reencapsulate the unencapsulated rootmirror disk under svm and mirror it with the original root disk. To ensure enough tcpip ephemeral ports, use the ndd network device driver utility to check.
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. Quickstart tuning guide for oracle solaris running. Installing oracle 11g r2 rac on solaris 10 pak dba. The only tool available to solaris system administrators for tuning kernel parameters is ndd.
First of all, use code tags when you post any code or data samples so others can easily read your code. But we are not seeing any hardware related problems or any switch problems. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. Although the ndd command is still functional in oracle solaris 11, the ipadm command is the preferred tool for customizing network parameters. Due to job changes i had to put this on hold for a while. This is changed as of solaris 10 update 10 0811 with these patches. 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. 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. 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. The system global tuning affects any application connections in which the application does not specify its own buffer values. For a limited time sunsolve will provide access to all solaris 10 patches. Presumably, it is not yet integrated into the oracle support portal and solaris system utilities. I cant ping or ping from the qfe interfaces, the onboard hme is fine. Solaris operating environment network settings for security updated for solaris 9 operating environment the ndd command.
This is mostly a repost of laotsaos weblog, with some tweaks and additions. Dec 11, 2010 in fact, oracle has migrated all sun servers hosting solaris patches to its own servers. Oracle 11g release 2 installation on solaris 10 32bit. Now sometimes the ndd command uses a generic device file, e. How to check the interface speed, duplexautoneg settings and status using ndd and kstat. 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. When i was trying to install in x86 machine, it was not asking for any network settings which means it couldnt find nic. The patches that are listed in this chapter have been applied to the solaris 10 operating system in one of the following ways. Jul 28, 2011 viewing and changing speed and duplex in solaris. The following tables summarize differences between oracle solaris 10 and 11 with emphasis on the benefits of oracle solaris 11.
Auto negotiation of speed and duplex failing on solaris 10. In this release, this chapter has been completely revised. 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. Solaris 10 10 08 operating system patch list solaris 10.
Getting solaris 10 patches with smpatch, pca and oracle. Grid infrastructure installation and upgrade guide for oracle solaris. But later, the etcsystem file was modified to make the settings permanent following a reboot. Its using local mac address so each card has its own mac. 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. However, it is a good idea to bring it to single user mode before applying the patch cluster. However, some ndd options do not have equivalent ipadm subcommands. Solaris 10, and solaris 9 with patches, supports tcp multidata transmit mdt. Dynamic resource pools solaris 10 patching with svm. How to apply a solaris recommended patch cluster solaris. With solaris 10 and later, it is more elegant to to smf. Solaris kernel tuning for security broadcom community. Oracle patches solaris 10 hole exploited by nsa spyware tool.
I was wondering if this is the best way to implement these changes. 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. For 12c db on solaris 11, the supported version is solaris 11. Solaris 10 and below the ndd utility is used to change the above parameters. Chapter 26 adding and removing packages and patches on a. While the default settings for tcpip on solaris 10 are appropriate for most situations, some application vendors recommend or require particular tcpip tuning. You can also go through the below interface questions on specific category. A gigabit capable port on some solaris 10 systems made by broadcom has difficulty negotiating speed and duplex settings with cisco network switches. Chapter 26 adding and removing packages and patches on a solaris system with zones installed tasks solaris 10 106. Tuning tcp settings on solaris 10 systems sun java system. Here is the basic solaris interview questions which are commonly asked in solaris l1 or l2 level 1 or l2 interviews.
Setting udp and tcp kernel parameters manually oracle docs. Solaris 10 kernel adjust etcsystem parameters below and reboot the system. How to preserve an ndd1m tcp tuning configuration through a. Currently, ndd only supports the tcpip kernel drivers. Using large pages can reduce the cpu overhead of managing a large jvm heap. Each driver chooses which parameters to make visible using ndd. These changes are not preserved across reboots, and therefore placing the appropriate command in a startup script such as etcrc2. Nfs specific tcp socket buffer tuning with solaris 10 update. Edit the following xml file according to your environment and save the file as varsvcmanifest site nddnettune. Solaris os specific edupert kb geant federated confluence. Scott lynn put together a very informative blog on solaris 10. Solaris operating system version 10 811 u10 and later information in this document applies to any platform. Hello, we are using sun netra x4200 servers with solaris 5.
Booting over the network with a sparc blade server. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. Hello everyone, i created an ndd tuning script in etcrc3. Although the ndd command is still functional in oracle solaris 11, the dladm command is the preferred command for managing these properties. Note this parameter has been superseded on the solaris 10 operating system by the. Configuration and installation of a solaris 8solaris 9 container. One of the first signs of trouble on the network is a loss of communications by one or more hosts. For 12c db on solaris 10, the supported version is solaris 10 1 update 11 or higher 3.
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. For solaris 9 and solaris 10, the default value is 128. According to this proposal, the api for setting the congestion control. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. Operating system, required patches and minimum versions. Description ndd gets and sets selected configuration parameters in some kernel drivers. Patch by royce williams to only query physical nic interfaces. 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. Qfe card on solaris 10 and ultra 5 oracle community. Solaris filesystem configuration ufs, zfs, disk partitioning, raid. Booting over the virtualized m2 nem 10 gigabit ethernet port.