[ How to create An Oracle Solaris 11 IPS/PKG Nagios Plugins Package The example below creates a Solaris Nagios Plugins package, I then show you how to publishes the Nagios pkg to your repository. Download required software First, download the latest NRPE and Nagios-plugins, you can download the Nagios plugins from here and the latest …
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The workaround below should fix the issue with the SMF Repositories-Setup going into maintenance. Below is a workaround I used to address/fix the issue with the svc:/application/pkg/system-repository:default going in to maintenance. So I am to trying to install a zone on a fresh Solaris 11.4 server, by running the below. zoneadm -z z1 install The …
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The below example creates a Solaris pkg from the Nagios application, you can then publishes the pkg to a Solaris repository. Note: To see how-to publish this pkg to a Solaris repository click here Extract legacy pkg to temp directory mkdir nrpe-pkg-source nagios-plugins-pkg-source pkgtrans nagios-plugins-1.4.16-sol10-i386-local nagios-plugins-pkg-source pkgtrans nrpe-2.14-sol10-i386-local nrpe-pkg-source Create a directory with all files …
I’ve forgotten this several times now so it’s time I wrote a short post to help me remember in future! In Solaris 11 we use the Image Packaging System to maintain the software on the system. This is written in python and uses libcurl and for non zoned systems setting the http_proxy is sufficient to …
First you add the IDR/p5p file to the repo Note: To see how-to create a Solaris pkg click here pkgrecv -d /var/mnt/virtlibs/1362593673064/1495c928-9096-4e11-9958-25856df9b57f/data -s /tmp/idr793.1.p5p “*” Processing packages for publisher solaris … Retrieving and evaluating 2 package(s)… PROCESS ITEMS GET (MB) SEND (MB) Completed 2/2 48.1/48.1 103.9/103.9 Then you refresh the repo pkgrepo refresh -s /var/mnt/virtlibs/1362593673064/1495c928-9096-4e11-9958-25856df9b57f/data …
Installing / applying an IDR Pkg(patch) Using a .p5p in Solaris 11.x First we need to get the list of packages included in the p5p pkg list -g file:////var/tmp/idr793.1.p5p NAME (PUBLISHER) VERSION IFO idr793 1 — Then install the patch / package pkg install -g file:////var/tmp/idr793.1.p5p idr793 If the above steps is not working, then …
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Contents 1 How to create a local soalris 11 express Package Repository 1.1 Create a new ZFS file system within a pool 1.1.1 Zfs Pool 1.1.2 ZFS filesystem 1.2 Prepare CD images from Oracle 1.3 Mount the repo CD image 1.4 Copy the data to the repo location 1.5 Set new repository settings 1.6 Enable …