Oracle Systems TechDay 13.05.2025 in Prague

Tuesday, May 13th 2025

Onsite event in Prague, Czech Republic

About
- Oracle Systems/Server/SPARC/ZFS/Solaris
- AI, Cloud
- Hybrid Storage
- Secure Desktop

As usual Oracle Product Managers, Engineering and JomaSoft
are there.

Registration at:
https://eventreg.oracle.com/profile/web/index.cfm?PKwebID=0x912115abcd

New Features in Solaris 11.4 SRU78 (Feb 2025)

Another quarterly Solaris SRU including new features

ldm list-domain -s
iostat -b and wildcards
faster utilities, because they use Python 3.11 now

FOSS: Python 3.13, MySQL 8.4, Ruby 3.3
EOF: Python 3.9

 

system-repository SMF access_log cleanup

The system-repository SMF delivers IPS packages to zones.

This SMF produces an access_log file which is not rotated
by default. If you run many zones this logfile grows
to multiple 100 MB. On a customer system with more
than 20 zones this file was over 3 GB in size.

This is a sample on one of our test systems

# ls -lh /var/log/pkg/sysrepo/access_log
-rw-r--r--   1 pkg5srv  bin         148M Jan  8 10:52 /var/log/pkg/sysrepo/access_log

You can manually rotate and compress this logfile using
the following command

# time logadm -c -z 0 /var/log/pkg/sysrepo/access_log

real    0m4.989s
user    0m4.164s
sys     0m0.815s

# ls -lh /var/log/pkg/sysrepo/access_log*
-rw-r--r--   1 pkg5srv  bin            0 Jan  8 10:54 /var/log/pkg/sysrepo/access_log
-rw-r--r--   1 pkg5srv  bin        26.7M Jan  8 10:52 /var/log/pkg/sysrepo/access_log.0.gz

JomaSoft provides OpenJDK17 package for Solaris 11.4 SPARC

Since two years JomaSoft produces Solaris 11.4 IPS packages
of opensource software. After postgres now openjdk was added.

Based on the work done by Peter Tribble. Thanks Peter!
https://github.com/ptribble/jdk-sunos-builder

Download Page
https://www.jomasoft.ch/downloads/#js-openjdk

Direct p5p Download Link
https://bit.ly/js-openjdk17-sparc

The package is provided without support or warranty.
Use at your own risk.

New Features in Solaris 11.4 SRU75 (Nov 2024)

Another quarterly Solaris SRU including new features

zfs mount/unmount -r
pgrep/pkill -Z
cups SMF disabled by default

FOSS: gcc14
EOF: snort, Node.js 18

 

OVM SPARC Agent End of Life

Extended Support for the OV Manager SPARC Agent ended by June 2024.
No patches are provided by Oracle anymore.

It is expected OVM SPARC Agent will not work anymore in 2025,
after old insecure components will be removed from Solaris.

Details in MOS DOC:
OVM : SPARC Solaris Support in OVM Environment After The End of OVM Extended Support. (Doc ID 3041724.1)

With JomaSoft VDCF we offer a complete and easy to use CLI solution to deploy, operate
and monitor Solaris SPARC LDoms.

WebCasts, Documentation and a Free Trial Version is available on
https://www.jomasoft.ch/vdcf/

Cleanup Oracle Solaris Audit files

Auditing is enabled by default on Solaris 11.4 and records security-related system events,
like logins, reboots, etc.

The audit files are stored in /var/share/audit.
Overtime this files use quiet some disk space

# cd /var/share/audit/
# du -sh
18.3G   .

For later analysis a backup of this files is recommended.
Maybe you have a central archive or security tools for this.

On the Solaris server there is no automatically cleanup
of this files active. This should be done manually from time to time.

For example to delete files older than 3 years.
find /var/share/audit -mtime +1095 -exec rm {} \;

If you are using JomaSoft VDCF you can execute this on all your Solaris 11 Nodes

# su
Password:
# echo "# cleanup audit files older than 3 years" >/var/opt/jomasoft/vdcf/config/script/cleanup_audit
# echo "find /var/share/audit -mtime +1095 -exec rm {} \;" >>/var/opt/jomasoft/vdcf/config/script/cleanup_audit

# exit
-bash-5.2$ config -c add type=SCRIPT name=cleanup_audit script=cleanup_audit os=11
Configuration SCRIPT successfully added.

-bash-5.2$ serverconfig -c exec servertype=node type=SCRIPT name=cleanup_audit
INFO: Servertype <node> selected, the following 'running' server are processed:
....

To learn more about Solaris Auditing take a look into the
Doc "Managing Auditing in Oracle Solaris 11.4"
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37838_01/html/E61027/index.html

Checkout what you can do with JomaSoft VDCF
https://www.jomasoft.com/vdcf/