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System Administration Guide: Oracle Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Oracle Solaris Zones |
1. Introduction to Solaris 10 Resource Management
2. Projects and Tasks (Overview)
3. Administering Projects and Tasks
4. Extended Accounting (Overview)
5. Administering Extended Accounting (Tasks)
6. Resource Controls (Overview)
7. Administering Resource Controls (Tasks)
8. Fair Share Scheduler (Overview)
9. Administering the Fair Share Scheduler (Tasks)
10. Physical Memory Control Using the Resource Capping Daemon (Overview)
11. Administering the Resource Capping Daemon (Tasks)
13. Creating and Administering Resource Pools (Tasks)
14. Resource Management Configuration Example
15. Resource Control Functionality in the Solaris Management Console
16. Introduction to Solaris Zones
17. Non-Global Zone Configuration (Overview)
18. Planning and Configuring Non-Global Zones (Tasks)
19. About Installing, Halting, Cloning, and Uninstalling Non-Global Zones (Overview)
20. Installing, Booting, Halting, Uninstalling, and Cloning Non-Global Zones (Tasks)
21. Non-Global Zone Login (Overview)
22. Logging In to Non-Global Zones (Tasks)
23. Moving and Migrating Non-Global Zones (Tasks)
24. Solaris 10 9/10: Migrating a Physical Solaris System Into a Zone (Tasks)
25. About Packages and Patches on a Solaris System With Zones Installed (Overview)
What's New in Packaging and Patching When Zones Are Installed
Packaging and Patch Tools Overview
Patches Generated for Packages
Package Operations Possible in the Global Zone
Package Operations Possible in a Non-Global Zone
How Zone State Affects Patch and Package Operations
About Adding Packages in Zones
Using pkgadd in the Global Zone
Adding a Package to the Global Zone and to All Non-Global Zones
Adding a Package to the Global Zone Only
Adding a Package Installed in the Global Zone to all Non-Global Zones
Using pkgadd in a Non-Global Zone
About Removing Packages in Zones
Using pkgrm in the Global Zone
Removing a Package From the Global Zone and From all Non-Global Zones
Using pkgrm in a Non-Global Zone
Setting Package Parameters for Zones
SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES Package Parameter
SUNW_PKG_HOLLOW Package Parameter
SUNW_PKG_THISZONE Package Parameter
Solaris 10 8/07: Deferred Activation Patching
Solaris 10 10/09: Zones Parallel Patching to Reduce Patching Time
Applying Patches on a Solaris System With Zones Installed
Using patchadd in the Global Zone
Using patchadd in a Non-Global Zone
Interaction of patchadd -G and the pkginfo Variable on a System With Zones
Removing Patches on a Solaris System With Zones Installed
Using patchrm in the Global Zone
Using patchrm in a Non-Global Zone
26. Adding and Removing Packages and Patches on a Solaris System With Zones Installed (Tasks)
27. Solaris Zones Administration (Overview)
28. Solaris Zones Administration (Tasks)
29. Upgrading a Solaris 10 System That Has Installed Non-Global Zones
30. Troubleshooting Miscellaneous Solaris Zones Problems
31. About Branded Zones and the Linux Branded Zone
32. Planning the lx Branded Zone Configuration (Overview)
33. Configuring the lx Branded Zone (Tasks)
34. About Installing, Booting, Halting, Cloning, and Uninstalling lx Branded Zones (Overview)
35. Installing, Booting, Halting, Uninstalling and Cloning lx Branded Zones (Tasks)
36. Logging In to lx Branded Zones (Tasks)
37. Moving and Migrating lx Branded Zones (Tasks)
38. Administering and Running Applications in lx Branded Zones (Tasks)
All patches applied at the global zone level are applied across all zones. When a non-global zone is installed, it is at the same patch level as the global zone. When the global zone is patched, all non-global zones are similarly patched. This action maintains the same patch level across all zones.
The patchadd system utility described in the patchadd(1M) man page is used to add patches on a system with zones installed.
To add a patch to the global zone and to all non-global zones, run patchadd as the global administrator in the global zone.
When patchadd is used in the global zone, the following conditions apply:
The patchadd utility is able to add the patch(es) to the global zone and to all non-global zones only. This is the default action.
The patchadd utility cannot add the patch(es) to the global zone only or to a subset of the non-global zones.
When you add a patch to the global zone and to all non-global zones, you do not have to consider whether the patch affects areas that are shared from the global zone.
The following steps are performed by the patchadd utility:
The patch is added to the global zone.
The patch database on the global zone is updated.
The patch is added to each non-global zone.
The patch database on each non-global zone is updated.
When used in a non-global zone by the zone administrator, patchadd can only be used to add patches to that zone. A patch can be added to a non-global zone in the following cases:
The patch does not affect any area of the zone that is shared from the global zone.
All packages in the patch are set SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES=false.
The following steps are performed by the patchadd utility:
The patch is added to the zone.
The patch database on the zone is updated.
The following list specifies the interaction between the -G option and the SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES variable when adding a patch in global and non-global zones.
If any packages have SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES=TRUE, this use results in an error and no action.
If no packages have SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES=TRUE, patch is applied to package(s) in global zone only.
If any packages have SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES=TRUE, patch is applied to those package(s) in all zones.
If any packages do not have SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES=TRUE, patch is applied to those package(s) in all appropriate zones. Global zone only packages are installed only in the global zone.
If any packages have SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES=TRUE, this use results in an error and no action.
If no packages have SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES=TRUE, patch is applied to packages in non-global zone only.