You no longer need to comment out these lines, just replace them with the following. After this promotion ends, solaris 10 security fixes will remain available to everyone. Solaris 10 patching best practices course reference guide sun system. See the how to and resources tabs for all our patching documentation for solaris users with various levels of patching experience. The nrpe daemon now has the ability to listen on ipv4 andor ipv6 addresses. Reverse dependencies 0 reverse dependencies are solaris packages that depends on nrpe. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. For a limited time sunsolve will provide access to all solaris 10 patches. Solaris 10 1 patchset released and latest solaris 10. For you information,from solaris 11 onward,zfs will be the default root filesystem. Nrpe allows you to remotely execute nagios plugins on other linuxunix machines. Unfortunately, one of the things lost was the incredible ease to locate and download patch. One can also analyze which dependencies need to be installed for a specific patch or multiple patches.
Purpose target audience installing the agent nagios. Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. I signed up for that, but now i need an oracle support identifier. Before applying patches, you might want to know more about patches that have been previously applied. Bulk installation instructions statistical information about downloads. Where can i get current versions of firefox for solaris 10. But i felt this post will be helpful for solaris administrators to find the latest os patch bundles from oracle. Currently only solaris 10 is supported, but support for other versions of solaris may be added in the future. Solaris 10 was originally launched in january 2005, and over its lifespan has introduced a ton of ground breaking features, like the zfs volume managerfilesystem, dtrace, zones, service management facility, trusted extensions and more. We no need to bring down the server to single user mode if you are using live upgrade method during pathing and b efore choosing live upgrade,make sure you are using zfs as a root filesystem. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. It appears that they have removed some of the ciphers in order to be compliant with export restrictions. Add nagios user as usrlocalnagios as home directory. Home nagios operating system solaris 10 11 how to install nagios solaris 11.
Its written in perl and supports operating systems like ibm aix, sunos solaris, bsd, linux without any modifications. Gerry haskins director security and release management. The default menu only has a grub safe mode boot option to choose from, but not the option to choose to boot to single user mode. By default, in solaris x86 10 106 the new grub boot loader does not provide a fully functional single user boot option in the menu that is presented upon booting. Introduction a purpose the nrpe addon is designed to allow you to execute nagios plugins on remote linuxunix machines. How to add linux hosts to nagios server for monitoring. How to get to solaris 10 patches post premier support. How to add linux hosts to nagios server for monitoring by shujat husain published june 11, 2017 updated may 31, 2017 nagios is free and open source application that is used for monitoring the complete it infrastructure i. This allows you to monitor remote machine metrics disk usage, cpu load, etc. I am not happy to post nontechnical posts on unixarena. Now that nagiosplugins is compiled and ready to use, well do the same for nrpe, download and extract it as below. Check out our official repositories and those maintained by our lovely community. Solaris 10 operating system solaris 10 106 solaris 10. Registering solaris 10 and updating patches from the.
The main reason for doing this is to allow nagios to monitor local resources like cpu load, memory usage. But eventually all good things must continue reading how to get to solaris 10 patches post premier support. These are a few links to the licensing information for solaris. This page provides the latest information on patching. Those of you still on solaris 10 may want to download the latest recommended patchset for solaris 10 which was published just last week, on 28th of january 2016. With solaris 10, we dont use either inetd or xinetd, but smf. For example, if you had the user nrpe and the group nrpe the command would be as followsconfigure enablecommandargs with nrpe user nrpe with nrpe group nrpe withnagiosuser nrpe withnagiosgroup nrpe create user and group. Nagios plugin to check solaris 10 patch status with pca. Registering solaris 10 and updating patches from the command line cli march 11, 2008 by kevin all the mainstream sun documentation on the sun connection or update manager expects the server to have a gui, which i completely dont understand. Nrpe nagios remote plugin executor is an opensource project that allows you to remotely execute nagios plugins on other linuxunix machines. This document describes how to install the solaris monitoring agent on target solaris servers. Solaris 7 and 8 information covers 32bit, 64bit and x86. Unfortunately, that throws a wrench in things when you want your solaris nagios server to use the nagios remote plugin executor nrpe to securely talk. I cant find where download package for my s10 sparc.
Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 11 host. Find more operating systems at the community respositories. Registering solaris 10 and updating patches from the command line cli. Install nrpe agent and nagios plugins on oracle solaris 10 and 11 internet connection is needed to grab packages from public repositories. Shows all patches that have been applied to the system. The primary update in this version of nrpe is full support for ipv6. The package creates the nagios usergroup, installs files to usrlocalnagios, creates the solaris service, registers the existing ssl. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 10 host. How to display information about solaris patches system. Customers would like to install latest os patch bundles to keep their systems update to date.
Solaris 10 1 patchset released and latest solaris 10 kernel patchids. My email provider has begun to get snarky about my browser being unsupported. If you use a proxy to get to the internet run the following command first from a terminal. Theres only four such patchsets a year and this is quite handy for rolling baselines when you plan to patch all of your solaris 10 servers in a particular. As final step, you may want to download additional plugins from nagios exchange site or make your own scripts, in each case you should copy the files under libexec directory. Currently only solaris 10 is supported, but support for other versions of. Java nrpe server this software joins the power of nrpe with the flexibility of java. It lists more missing patches than the sun tool, but downloads only the patches you are eligible for too. Please download the latest stable release of nagios core.
Installing updates on solaris 10 from the command line. The linux nrpe agent that ships with nagios xi is only supported on centos, rhel, opensuse, sles, ubuntu, and debian. Network monitoring software download nagios xi log management software nagios log. This last weekend saw the switch off of sunsolve and the migration of the old sun support system across to oracles my oracle support. Welcome to the patching documentation center oracle.
The last link is a document with the new hardware support policy. Solaris 10 os patching using liveupgrade unixarena. After registering your solaris system you might want to install updates from the command line. Heres a step by step installation of the nagios plugin nrpe for solaris 10 x86 as the remote host. Solaris os patching has been moved far away from the traditional methods from solaris 10 onwards. Solaris 10 operating system solaris 10 106 solaris 10 1. Solaris 10 ships openssl as part of the os distribution, in usrsfw. Analysis of the oracle solaris configuration, including networking, storage, and oracle solaris operating system features in use. Reverse dependencies 3 reverse dependencies are solaris packages that depends on wget.
As explained in the previous step, nrpe will automatically compile for the user nagios and the group. The package creates the nagios usergroup, installs files to usrlocalnagios, creates the solaris service, registers the existing ssl libraries which ship by default in solaris 10 and starts the service. The following commands provide useful information about patches that are already applied to a system. It comes in solaris packae format or binary format. Our official icinga repositories provide the most recent packages for all leading operating systems. The programs were ported to all versions of solaris from 2. This document describes how to install and configure nrpe from source for use with nagios corexi. This allows organization to monitor vital metrics and ensure that their solaris servers are functioning properly. As unix admin, we have to provide those patch bundles information to. Solaris flash archives creation and installation html. Download the latest solaris 10 patches using patchfinder and find updated support content using the sunsolve knowledgebase.
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