Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Statistics: monitoring resource use of zones

2008-11-18 Thread Glenn Brunette
Mike, Mike Gerdts wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Glenn Brunette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Jeff, >> >> This actually hits on a similar request that I have (but for different >> reasons). I would like a stable interface from which I could tell >> the update revision of a system. >

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Statistics: monitoring resource use of zones

2008-11-18 Thread James Carlson
Glenn Brunette writes: > This actually hits on a similar request that I have (but for different > reasons). I would like a stable interface from which I could tell > the update revision of a system. We have no such thing. It's not clear to me how such a thing would work. Suppose someone install

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Statistics: monitoring resource use of zones

2008-11-18 Thread Jordan Brown
Mike Gerdts wrote: > When really important features are released as new > packages "genesis patches" are delivered to deliver the feature. Sometimes, but not always. In fact, I'd have to say "usually not". The Genesis technique is not without its problems, and is considered controversial.

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Statistics: monitoring resource use of zones

2008-11-18 Thread Enda O'Connor
Hi I'd agree with James, the update revision is sometimes a blurry picture, ie cat /etc/release will tell me that my system is 1/06 ( update 1 if I remember correctly ) but if I have applied the latest jumbo kernel patch 137137-09 I essentially have a lot of the u6 functionality ( a lot but not

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Statistics: monitoring resource use of zones

2008-11-18 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Enda O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So sometimes an update might be meaningless, ie > I can have an x86 FCS system ( from cat /etc/release ) > but it has grub,zfs and all the latest zones functionality, just by > adding 137137-09, plus the near 30 patches re

[zones-discuss] Issue with zone upgrade on attach

2008-11-18 Thread Christophe Dupre
Hello, we're having an issue migrating a zone from one server to another. Server A has Solaris 10 x86 05/08 and hosts zone X (spare-root zone). Server B has just been acquired and installed with Solaris 10 x86 10/08 and hosts a number of zones created locally. We would like to move zone X from A

Re: [zones-discuss] Issue with zone upgrade on attach

2008-11-18 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Christophe Dupre wrote: > Hello, > we're having an issue migrating a zone from one server to another. > > Server A has Solaris 10 x86 05/08 and hosts zone X (spare-root zone). > > Server B has just been acquired and installed with Solaris 10 x86 10/08 > and hosts a number of zones created locall

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone Statistics: monitoring resource use of zones

2008-11-18 Thread James Carlson
Mike Gerdts writes: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Enda O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To me they probably need a patch automation tool to tell them what is > > currently available in terms of patching, and they see what they need > > from that. > > Interface changes always have an a

Re: [zones-discuss] Issue with zone upgrade on attach

2008-11-18 Thread Christophe Dupre
Thanks Jerry for the quick reply. I am making progress, but no cigar (yet). Now I have: zoneadm: zone 'X': ERROR: attempt to downgrade package SUNWgtar, the source had patches but this system does not It does not give me a patch number, so I can't add it to the bad_patches file. Or maybe it d

Re: [zones-discuss] Issue with zone upgrade on attach

2008-11-18 Thread Enda O'Connor
Hi Christophe In the zone being attached: zonepath/root/var/sadm/pkg/SUNWgtar/pkginfo file there should be an entry for PATCHLIST= could I see this, and also the one from the target system's global zones pkginfo. Enda Christophe Dupre wrote: > > Thanks Jerry for the quick reply. I am making p

Re: [zones-discuss] Issue with zone upgrade on attach

2008-11-18 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Christophe Dupre wrote: > > Thanks Jerry for the quick reply. I am making progress, but no cigar > (yet). Now I have: > > zoneadm: zone 'X': ERROR: attempt to downgrade package SUNWgtar, the > source had patches but this system does not > > It does not give me a patch number, so I can't add it

Re: [zones-discuss] Issue with zone upgrade on attach

2008-11-18 Thread Christophe Dupre
From the global zone: PATCHLIST= From zone being attached: PATCHLIST=139100-01 So I guess I need to install 139100-01 in the new server's global zone ? That makes sense - the original server was 05/08 but had received a recommended cluster in early october, so it is probable that it received