When solaris 9 gets released, the solstice disksuite name will change to solaris volume manager svm and it will be bundled in with solaris 9. Saves disk space, but it prevents to be able to remove a patch from the system. When i enter below command to create meta db getting the following. The second form selects one from among various other network data structures. I am new to solaris and having problem with svm to create mirroring on m4000 server with solaris 10. Solaris 8 system administration ii james cook university high. Introductionthe solaris 8 system administrators reference is your complete alphabetic reference to all of the manual pages in section 1m of the online reference documentation for the solaris 8 release. Solaris 9 without patch 199422 a system is only vulnerable to this issue if svm devices are configured, which can be determined by running the metastat 1m command. They are only valid on sparc hardware that uses the openboot rmware. Solaris 8 operating environment system administration ii.
Command to download the package from internet in solaris. Use one of the following methods to check mirror or submirror status. Use the metastat command to query your new raid5 metadevices. If you used sunplex manager to install solstice disksuite software solaris 8, the. Solaris volume manager svm command line reference cheat. Solaris system has different architecture for this one. Contact us the unix and linux forums unix commands, linux commands, linux server, linux ubuntu, shell script, linux distros. This chapter provides a quick reference to the contents of this book by functional grouping. The information in this table includes solaris 8 and the veritas volume manager vxvm. I am a novice at unix and helping out a shorthanded and. The video explains about the key fields in the output of mpstat and how to interpret them to analyze a performance issue. If you turn on command logging, in the tool from the file menu, you can see the. Use the metastat1m command to view mirror status and to verify that mirror.
John groenveld provides the following instructions for solaris 8. The file is only used when metainit command is issued by the administrator. The following command creates three replicas of metadb on three disk slices. Viewing the solaris volume manager configuration solaris. It resulted in io errors and a metastat in need maintenance state.
As you aware that on solaris server the packages administration work is quite different from other unix operating system. Installing precompiled gnu screen package on solaris 10. The mpstat command is used to check how the load is balanced across cpus and what is the load on each cpu. Aug 14, 2014 installing precompiled gnu screen package on solaris 10. Maintaining a copy of the solaris distribution is a good way to ensure all your systems have access to updates and software packages that are not yet installed. Doubleclick the small metadb icon in the objects area of the. Replacing a failed disk in solaris mirror svm elizar. The eeprom command can be used from the os to view or set openboot rmware variables. Hi, after issuing metastat command i am getting output as follows actually these soft partitions are more than 100. Display status of metadevice na metastat logical volume management the following is a list of tasks that are used when performing logical volume management in aix and solaris. Solaris 9 without patch 199422 a system is only vulnerable to this issue if svm devices are configured, which can be determined by running the metastat1m command. Soft partitioning was not in the original solstice disksuite 4.
My solaris system has it installed, but i do not control the image we use to install it. Top 10 free linux distributions for desktop and servers rmdir force in linux. When you have finished upgrading the adapters, select option 0 to return to. The command prompt host will return upon successful completion. To begin, download the latest solaris ips repo zip files, for solaris 11. This astounding option to truss provides a profile summary of the command being trussed. Create the new database replicas on the new disk, e. To do so, you must first download the coreutils source coreutils8. It is unwise to use the output of the metastatp command to create a md. However, the soft partitioning functionality was released in patch 10869306 for sds 4.
Each row of the table represents the activity of one processor. From the enhanced storage tool within the solaris management console, open the volumes node. Finally, use the metattach command to create the twoway mirror named d20 from the second submirror d22. Svm has been included as a standard part of the solaris operating system since solaris 8 was released in february 2000. To view your metadevice configuration and status, use the metastat command. Solaris volume manager stuck at resync in progress. On your solaris server, a disk that is part of a mirror goes bad and needs replacement. It is unwise to use the output of the metastat p command to create a md. Solaris volume manager soft partitioning explained. But in solaris 11, all the tasks will be carried out using beadm command. Create a directory for ips and remove the existing solaris publisher.
Can any one suggest a command to download the package from the interent in the solaris box. Solaris 8, 9 patchadd script return codes or solaris 10 w t option. Solaris 8 and solaris 9 only calculate the number of metadevice names and disk sets needed for your configuration, and modify the kerneldrvnf file. The metastat command displays the current status for each metadevice.
There are also lots of legacy sites out there still running 2. The system displays detailed information for each metadevice virtual device similar to the following. I want to create a ufs file system with an 8kb block size. So, we will discuss first which command is generally used on solaris 10 server which are listed below. Security vulnerability with solaris volume manager svm. I run metastat on solaris 8 and the resulted as below. Installing and configuring solstice disksuitesolaris volume.
Solaris 8 only install solstice disksuite software. Install the following packages on the server using the pkgadd command. Metastat output looping just wanna try installed it on one of our server to do mirroring for disk0 and disk1 but i think im lost until now. To find out more about these so called meta devices, one can use the metastat command. Using wget to recursively fetch a directory with arbitrary files in it. It is helpful to run the metastat command after using the metattach command to view the status of the metadevice. Sep 16, 2014 slpd1m service location protocol daemon smartcard1m configure and administer a smart card smattrpop1m populate security attribute databases in a name service smc1m start the solaris management console smccompile1m build class list and compile solaris management console service beans for remote use smcconf1m. Aix reference for sun solaris administrators ibm redbooks. We use the metadb command to create the database replicas. It can be used to recreate all the metadevices in one go. The output of metastat p might show hot spares being used. Installing and configuring solstice disksuite or solaris. The wget command in solaris 10 is somewhat hidden from sight.
From the enhanced storage tool within the solaris management console, open the volumes node, choose the mirror, then choose actionproperties. Apr 28, 2012 now solaris volume manager is ready to use. Ibm includes its logical volume manager lvm in aix version 4. The first table summarizes all activity since boot. For additional disk status information when using disk mirroring, you can run the metastat command. If svm devices exist, output will be similar to the following. Solaris volume manager svm on solaris 11 oracle solaris blog. The metastat a command lets you quickly check the condition of svm volumes. How to check the status of mirrors and submirrors solaris. Disksuite was released as an addon product for sunos in. How to set the number of metadevice or volume names and disk sets.
The output of metastatp might show hot spares being used. The solaris image packaging system enables you to keep the solaris software and your own packages onpremise, and share it to the other systems. Here we will perform simple operations to understand beadm in solaris11. To do so, you must first download the coreutils source coreutils 8. The metadb command creates and deletes replicas of the metadevice state database. After running the above command, the metadevice will go through an initialization state. I have to find out what version of powerpath is on a number of solaris 10 server. To view the volume configuration, use one of the following methods. Svm is similar in functionality to later software volume managers such as freebsd vinum, allowing metadevices virtual disks to be concatenated, striped or mirrored together from physical ones.
The first form of the command displays a list of active sockets for each protocol. However, gnu stat isnt fully aware of solaris file system capabilities so i would suggest to use ls instead to get file information. If metastat grep needs, results in some output then this command to be executed for the same. State database replicas can be created on dedicated slices, or on slices that will later become part of a simple metadevice concatenation or stripe or raid5 metadevice. Solstice disksuite soft partitions not hard at all dr. Postinstallation and customization solaris x86 faq dan. Administrating boot environments in solaris 11 is almost same as solaris 10s live upgrade. When using the metastat command, you will be able to view how far of the initialization is completed. This document is based upon sparc solaris 10 obp all the following commands are to be run from the obp and not the os. While the cheat sheet showed already two examples, the nscfg command isnt limited to these scenarios.
Solaris volume manager svm command line reference cheat sheet. The native file system of solaris is the venerable unix file system ufs and, except for minor changes e. In solaris 10,we will use lu commands like lucreate,l uactivate, lumount, luumount and lustatus. I need to download the zip file from the internet to the solaris box using the terminal command user2400564 jul 24 at 10. Solaris volume manager formerly solstice disksuite is a software raid package for solaris. Aug 06, 2015 when debugging network services, i usually tend to run either custom pfiles scripts or compile lsof for solaris to find the open ports in solaris. A beginners guide to solaris performance monitoring and. If it is in an archive, unarchive it and then enter into the directory of the source. Solaris on sparc system administrator penguintutor. The gnu command stat is bundled with opensolaris and solaris 11 and available on the solaris companion cd with solaris 10. Solstice disk suite is a part of server edition of the solaris os and is not included with desktop edition.