Monday 30 July 2018

NameNode Check Pointing

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Tuesday 15 November 2016

Managine Hadoop Cluster


If you are working on Hadoop, you’ll realize there are several shell commands available to manage your Hadoop cluster.
 Hadoop administration commands.

1. Name node Commands
Command
Description
hadoop namenode -format
Format HDFS filesystem from Namenode
hadoop namenode -upgrade
Upgrade the NameNode
start-dfs.sh
Start HDFS Daemons                       
stop-dfs.sh
Stop HDFS Daemons
start-mapred.sh
Start MapReduce Daemons
stop-mapred.sh
Stop MapReduce Daemons
hadoop namenode -recover -force
Recover namenode metadata after a cluster failure (may lose data)

2. fsck Commands

Command
Description
hadoop fsck /
Filesystem check on HDFS
hadoop fsck / -files
Display files during check
hadoop fsck / -files -blocks
Display files and blocks during check
hadoop fsck / -files -blocks -locations
Display files, blocks and its location during check
hadoop fsck / -files -blocks -locations -racks
Display network topology for data-node locations
hadoop fsck -delete
Delete corrupted files
hadoop fsck -move
Move corrupted files to /lost+found directory

3. Job Commands
Command
Description
hadoop job -submit <job-file>
Submit the job
hadoop job -status <job-id>
Print job status completion percentage
hadoop job -list all
List all jobs
hadoop job -list-active-trackers
List all available TaskTrackers
hadoop job -set-priority <job-id> <priority>
Set priority for a job. Valid priorities: VERY_HIGH, HIGH, NORMAL, LOW, VERY_LOW
hadoop job -kill-task <task-id>
Kill a task
hadoop job -history
Display job history including job details, failed and killed jobs


4. dfsadmin Commands

Command
Description
hadoop dfsadmin -report
Report filesystem info and statistics
hadoop dfsadmin -metasave file.txt
Save namenode’s primary data structures to file.txt
hadoop dfsadmin -setQuota 10 /quotatest
Set Hadoop directory quota to only 10 files
hadoop dfsadmin -clrQuota /quotatest
Clear Hadoop directory quota
hadoop dfsadmin -refreshNodes
Read hosts and exclude files to update datanodes that are allowed to connect to namenode. Mostly used to commission or decommsion nodes
hadoop fs -count -q /mydir
Check quota space on directory /mydir
hadoop dfsadmin -setSpaceQuota /mydir 100M
Set quota to 100M on hdfs directory named /mydir
hadoop dfsadmin -clrSpaceQuota /mydir
Clear quota on a HDFS directory
hadooop dfsadmin -saveNameSpace
Backup Metadata (fsimage & edits). Put cluster in safe mode before this command.

5. Safe Mode (Maintenance Mode) Commands
The following dfsadmin commands helps the cluster to enter or leave safe mode, which is also called as maintenance mode. In this mode, Namenode does not accept any changes to the name space, it does not replicate or delete blocks.
Command
Description
hadoop dfsadmin -safemode enter
Enter safe mode
hadoop dfsadmin -safemode leave
Leave safe mode
hadoop dfsadmin -safemode get
Get the status of mode
hadoop dfsadmin -safemode wait
Wait until HDFS finishes data block replication

6. Configuration Files

File
Description
hadoop-env.sh
Sets ENV variables for Hadoop
core-site.xml
Parameters for entire Hadoop cluster
hdfs-site.xml
Parameters for HDFS and its clients
mapred-site.xml
Parameters for MapReduce and its clients
masters
Host machines for secondary Namenode
slaves
List of slave hosts


7. mradmin Commands
Command
Description
hadoop mradmin -safemode get
Check Job tracker status
hadoop mradmin -refreshQueues
Reload mapreduce configuration
hadoop mradmin -refreshNodes
Reload active TaskTrackers
hadoop mradmin -refreshServiceAcl        
Force Jobtracker to reload service ACL
hadoop mradmin -refreshUserToGroupsMappings
Force jobtracker to reload user group mappings

8. Balancer Commands
Command
Description
start-balancer.sh
Balance the cluster
hadoop dfsadmin -setBalancerBandwidth <bandwidthinbytes>
Adjust bandwidth used by the balancer
hadoop balancer -threshold 20
Limit balancing to only 20% resources in the cluster


9. Filesystem Commands

Command
Description
hadoop fs -mkdir mydir
Create a directory (mydir) in HDFS
hadoop fs -ls
List files and directories in HDFS
hadoop fs -cat myfile
View a file content
hadoop fs -du
Check disk space usage in HDFS
hadoop fs -expunge
Empty trash on HDFS
hadoop fs -chgrp hadoop file1
Change group membership of a file
hadoop fs -chown huser file1
Change file ownership
hadoop fs -rm file1
Delete a file in HDFS
hadoop fs -touchz file2
Create an empty file
hadoop fs -stat file1
Check the status of a file
hadoop fs -test -e file1
Check if file exists on HDFS
hadoop fs -test -z file1
Check if file is empty on HDFS
hadoop fs -test -d file1
Check if file1 is a directory on HDFS

Thursday 14 May 2015

VENOM Vulnerability

How to Patch and Protect Linux Server against the VENOM Vulnerability # CVE-2015-3456


A very serious security problem has been found in the virtual floppy drive QEMU's code used by many computer virtualization platforms including Xen, KVM, VirtualBox, and the native QEMU client. It is called VENOM vulnerability. How can I fix VENOM vulnerability and protect my Linux server against the attack? How do I verify that my server has been fixed against the VENOM vulnerability?
This is tagged as high severity security bug and it was announced on 13th May 2015. The VENOM vulnerability has existed since 2004, when the virtual Floppy Disk Controller was first added to the QEMU codebase. Since the VENOM vulnerability exists in the hypervisor’s codebase, the vulnerability is agnostic of the host operating system (Linux, Windows, Mac OS, etc.).


What is the VENOM security bug (CVE-2015-3456)?


An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the way QEMU's virtual Floppy Disk Controller (FDC) handled FIFO buffer access while processing certain FDC commands. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the guest or, potentially, execute arbitrary code on the host with the privileges of the hosting QEMU process.


A list of affected Linux distros


§ RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) version 5.x, 6.x and 7.x
§ CentOS Linux version 5.x, 6.x and 7.x
§ OpenStack 5 for RHEL 6
§ OpenStack 4 for RHEL 6
§ OpenStack 5 for RHEL 7
§ OpenStack 6 for RHEL 7
§ Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3
§ Debian Linux code named stretch, sid, jessie, squeeze, and wheezy [and all other distro based on Debian]
§ SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 4 (SLES 10 SP3)
§ SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 4 (SLES 10 SP4)
§ SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 1 (SLES 11 SP1)
§ SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 2 (SLES 11 SP2)
§ SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 3 (SLES 11 SP3)
§ SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
§ SUSE Linux Enterprise Expanded Support 5, 6 and 7
§ Ubuntu 12.04
§ Ubuntu 14.04
§ Ubuntu 14.10
§ Ubuntu 15.04


Fix the VENOM vulnerability on a CentOS/RHEL/Fedora/Scientific Linux


sudo yum clean all
sudo yum update
Reboot all your virtual machines on those hypervisors.


Fix the VENOM vulnerability on a Debian Linux


sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Reboot all your virtual machines on those hypervisors.


Fix the VENOM vulnerability on a Ubuntu Linux


sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Reboot all your virtual machines on those hypervisors.

Wednesday 4 February 2015

Installation and configuration of Docker

In privious Blog I have mention Docker Introduction. 

I have Installed Docker Ubuntu so below are the steps to installation
  •        Docker is supported on the following versions of Ubuntu:
  •        Ubuntu Trusty 14.04 (LTS) (64-bit)
  •        Ubuntu Precise 12.04 (LTS) (64-bit)
  •        Ubuntu Raring 13.04 and Saucy 13.10 (64 bit)
Please read Docker and UFW, if you plan to use UFW (Uncomplicated Firewall)
Ubuntu Trusty 14.04 (LTS) (64-bit)

Ubuntu Trusty comes with a 3.13.0 Linux kernel, and a docker.io package which installs Docker 1.0.1 and all its prerequisites from Ubuntu's repository.
Note: Ubuntu contain a much older KDE3/GNOME2 package called docker, so the Ubuntu-maintained package and executable are named docker.io.

Ubuntu-maintained Package Installation

To install the latest Ubuntu package (this is not the most recent Docker release):
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install docker.io
Then, to enable tab-completion of Docker commands in BASH, either restart BASH or:
$ source /etc/bash_completion.d/docker.io
Note: Since the Ubuntu package is quite dated at this point, you may want to use the following section to install the most recent release of Docker. If you install the Docker version, you do not need to install docker.io from Ubuntu.

Docker-maintained Package Installation

If you'd like to try the latest version of Docker:
First, check that your APT system can deal with https URLs: the file /usr/lib/apt/methods/https should exist. If it doesn't, you need to install the package apt-transport-https.
[ -e /usr/lib/apt/methods/https ] || {
  apt-get update
  apt-get install apt-transport-https
}
Then, add the Docker repository key to your local keychain.
$ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 36A1D7869245C8950F966E92D8576A8BA88D21E9
Add the Docker repository to your apt sources list, update and install the lxc-docker package.
You may receive a warning that the package isn't trusted. Answer yes to continue installation.
$ sudo sh -c "echo deb https://get.docker.com/ubuntu docker main\
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list"
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install lxc-docker

Note:
There is also a simple curl script available to help with this process.
$ curl -sSL https://get.docker.com/ubuntu/ | sudo sh

To verify that everything has worked as expected:
same way you can access your container.

$ sudo docker run -i -t Ubuntu /bin/bash
Which should download the Ubuntu image, and then start bash in a container.

RHEL 6 you need to Install EPEL repo and then you need run below mention command 
 yum install docker

In RHEL 7. it's inbuild Package. you don't need to install additional 
Package

NOTE: If you wanted to launch your docker container  then you need to write dockerfile and need to build the docker container.
More Information you can Click here

Tuesday 3 February 2015

Docker Introduction

About Docker:
Develop, Ship and Run Any Application, Anywhere

Docker is a platform for developers and sysadmins to develop, ship, and run applications. Docker lets you quickly assemble applications from components and eliminates the friction that can come when shipping code. Docker lets you get your code tested and deployed into production as fast as possible.

Docker consists of:

  •     The Docker Engine - lightweight and powerful open source container virtualization technology combined with a work flow for building and containerizing your applications.
  •     Docker Hub - SaaS service for sharing and managing your application stacks.

Deployment:

  •     Docker containers run (almost) everywhere. You can deploy containers on desktops, physical servers, virtual machines, into data centers, and up to public and private clouds.
  •     Since Docker runs on so many platforms, it's easy to move your applications around. You can easily move an application from a testing environment into the cloud and back whenever you need.
  •     Docker containers don't need a hypervisor, so you can pack more of them onto your hosts. This means you get more value out of every server and can potentially reduce what you spend on equipment and licenses.
  •     As Docker speeds up your work flow, it gets easier to make lots of small changes instead of huge, big bang updates. Smaller changes mean reduced risk and more uptime.

Friday 30 January 2015

Patching Linux Server


In this blog we are going to Patch Linux Machine Using up2date and yum. We are going to take backup of important fine and necessary steps after patching, backout plan if system crashed
·         Take the back-up of the following files/commands.
·         Common for all revisions:
·         uname -a
·         ifconfig a
·         fdisk -l
·         uptime
·         cat /etc/hosts
·         cat /etc/fstab
·         df -h
·         cat /etc/grub.conf
·         cat /etc/sysctl.conf
·         rpm -qa > /packagelist_beforePatch_May2011.txt
·         cat /packagelist_beforePatch_May2011.txt
·         cat /etc/selinux/config
·         cat /etc/resolv.conf
·         chkconfig list
·         #cat /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
·         #up2date l
·         #up2date --configure
·         #more /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date

·         more /etc/yum.conf
·         yum check-update
·         The below document takes all the details of the remaining system-files as a part of taking backup of system configuration:

·         rpm -qa > /packagelist_afterPatch_May2011.txt
·         cat /packagelist_afterPatch_May2011.txt
·         First, you must update the up2date utility do to havening problems not being able to boot up after patching.
 #up2date up2date
·         this will download and install the latest up2date utility
·         After verifying that up2date is at the latest revision and the development and production environment are the same you must first down load the patches on the all the servers that are being patched and install patches on the development servers for testing.
#up2date --dry-run  Or   #up2date -l    Or #up2date  --nodownload 
·         This will show you the updated patches/packages that are available for download.
Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-es-4...
Fetching rpm headers...
########################################

Name                                    Version              Rel               Arch
·          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
·          4Suite                                  1.0                 3.el4_8.1           i386
·          PyXML                                   0.8.3               6.el4_8.2           i386
·          acpid                                   1.0.3               2.el4_7.1           i386
·          apr                                     0.9.4               24.9.el4_8.2        i386
·          apr-util                                0.9.4               22.el4_8.2          i386
·          audit                                   1.0.16              4.el4_8.1           i386
·          audit-libs                              1.0.16              4.el4_8.1           i386
·          bash                                    3.0                 21.el4_8.2          i386
·          bind-libs                               9.2.4               30.el4_8.5          i386
·          bind-utils                              9.2.4               30.el4_8.5          i386
·          compat-openldap                         2.1.30              12.el4_8.2          i386
·          cpio                                    2.5                 16.el4_8.1          i386
·          cpp                                     3.4.6               11.el4_8.1          i386
·          wget                                    1.10.2              1.el4_8.1           i386
·          xmlsec1                                 1.2.6               3.1                 i386
·          xmlsec1-openssl                         1.2.6               3.1                 i386

·          Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
·          ########################################
·          Name                                    Version              Rel               Arch
·          ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
·          4Suite                                  1.0                 3.el4_8.1           i386
·          PyXML                                   0.8.3               6.el4_8.2           i386
·          acpid                                   1.0.3               2.el4_7.1           i386
·          bind-utils                              9.2.4               30.el4_8.5          i386
·          compat-openldap                         2.1.30              12.el4_8.2          i386
·          gd                                      2.0.28              5.4E.el4_8.1        i386
·          glibc                                   2.3.4               2.43.el4_8.3        i686

·          The following Packages were marked to be skipped by your configuration:

·          Name                                     Version              Rel                      Reason
·          ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
·          kernel                                  2.6.9               89.0.26.EL          Pkg name/pattern
·          kernel-smp                              2.6.9               89.0.26.EL          Pkg name/pattern
·          kernel-utils                            2.4                 20.el4              Pkg name/pattern

#more /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date

# Automatically generated Red Hat Update Agent config file, do not edit.
# Format: 1.0
useNoSSLForPackages [comment] =Use the noSSLServerURL for package, package list, a
nd header fetching
useNoSSLForPackages=0
 storageDir[comment]=Where to store packages and other data when they are retrieved
storageDir=/var/spool/up2date
 [comment]=Remote server URL without SSL
noSSLServerURL=http://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC
 networkRetries[comment]=Number of attempts to make at network connections before
 giving up
networkRetries=5
 pkgsToInstallNotUpdate[comment]=A list of provides names or package names of pack
ages to install not update
pkgsToInstallNotUpdate=kernel;kernel-modules;kernel-devel;

#up2date --configure
         Select the required options ( keepAfterInstall & pkgskipList and etc) to change the Configuration of Up2date Agent.

         0.  debug              No
         1.  rhnuuid            38e8d384-589b-11d7-9124-00096be0a8c5
         2.  isatty             Yes
         showAvailablePacka No
         4.  depslist           [ ]
         5.  networkSetup       Yes
         6.  retrieveOnly       No
         7.  enableRollbacks    No
         8.pkgSkipList        ['kernel*']
         9.storageDir         /var/spool/up2date
·         This will download and save only the updates/packages in /var/spool/up2date or what is defined in line 9 of up2date-config file
·         Run only if packages are downloaded into non-default directories
Example:
 #up2date iuk /var/spool
 ·         This will download patches/rpm into a custom directory. The default download directory is /var/spool/up2date.  If the updates/packages have already been downloaded, use this option below to install the downloaded updates/packages.
 ·         After patches are installed
#rpm -qa  > /packagelist_afterPatch_10182010.txt
 ·         A new listing should be done after patching for future reference.
·         Onece you fine this command then you will get below mention output
vim-enhanced-6.3.046-0.40E.7
vim-minimal-6.3.046-0.40E.7
vixie-cron-4.1-50.el4
vsftpd-2.0.1-6.el4
vte-0.11.11-12.el4
vte-0.11.11-12.el4
wget-1.10.2-0.40E
which-2.16-4
wireless-tools-28-0.pre16.3.3.EL4
words-3.0-3.2
wvdial-1.54.0-3
Xaw3d-1.5-24

            # shutdown [OPTION]... TIME [MESSAGE] The shutdown command format.

# shutdown -r 0
        # Broadcast message from root@RH5
(/dev/pts/1) at 14:10 ...
The system is going down for reboot NOW!


·         AFTER THE PREDEFINDED, TESTING PEIORED THE UPDATES/PATCHES WILL NEED TO BE MOVED TO THE PRODUCTION ENVIROMENT.

PRODUCTION SERVER
·         Take the back-up of the following files/commands.

#uname -a
#ifconfig a
#cat /etc/hosts
#cat /etc/fstab
#df -h
#cat /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
#cat /etc/grub.conf
#cat /etc/sysctl.conf
#rpm -qa > /packagelist_10152010.txt#cat /packagelist_10152010.txt
#cat /etc/selinux/config

#up2date --configure

·         Select the required options ( keepAfterInstall & pkgskipList and etc) to change the Configuration of Up2date Agent.

0.  debug              No
1.  rhnuuid            38e8d384-589b-11d7-9124-00096be0a8c5
2.  isatty             Yes
3.  showAvailablePacka No
4.  depslist           [ ]
5.  networkSetup       Yes
6.  retrieveOnly       No
7.  enableRollbacks    No
8.pkgSkipList        ['kernel*']
9.storageDir         /var/spool/up2date

 (Run only if packages are downloaded into non-default directories)

up2date -iuk (custom directory)

            Example:
            #up2date iuk  /var/spool

·         This will check for downloaded patches first before downloading from the RHN. The default download directory is /var/spool/up2date.  If the updates/packages have already been downloaded, use this option to install the downloaded updates/packages first before checking the RHN for updates/packages.
#rpm -qa  > newpatchlist.txt

·         A new listing should be done after patching for future reference.
vim-enhanced-6.3.046-0.40E.7
vim-minimal-6.3.046-0.40E.7
vixie-cron-4.1-50.el4
vsftpd-2.0.1-6.el4
vte-0.11.11-12.el4
vte-0.11.11-12.el4
wget-1.10.2-0.40E
which-2.16-4
wireless-tools-28-0.pre16.3.3.EL4
words-3.0-3.2
wvdial-1.54.0-3Xaw3d-1.5-24
# shutdown [OPTION]... TIME [MESSAGE] The shutdown command format.

shutdown -r 0
# Broadcast message from root@RH5
(/dev/pts/1) at 14:10 ...
 The system is going down for reboot NOW!
 ·         (RH5): How to download and install patches/Updates for a development/production environment:
Take the back-up of the following files/commands.
#uname -a
#ifconfig a
#fdisk -l
#cat /etc/hosts
#cat /etc/fstab
#df -h
#cat /etc/yum.conf
#cat /etc/grub.conf
#cat /etc/sysctl.conf
#rpm -qa > /packagelist_10152010.txt
#cat /packagelist_10152010.txt
#cat /etc/selinux/config

·         First, you must install the yum downloadonly utility to give yum the ability to download patches/rpm.

·         this will download and install the downloadonly utility
·         After verifying that yum download utility is installed and the development and production environment are the same you must first down load the patches on the all the servers that are being patched and install patches on the development server for testing 
·         In addition, you will need to clear the yum cache.
·         This will clean the yum chache when you again fire the command then it will search all repository for updated packages.
·         Once you fine check-update command then This will give you a list of updated patches/packages  available for download.
 
kpartx.i386                                                                        0.4.7-34.el5_5.1                                                          rhel-i386-server-5
krb5-libs.i386                                                                     1.6.1-36.el5_5.4                                                          rhel-i386-server-5
krb5-workstation.i386                                                              1.6.1-36.el5_5.4                                                          rhel-i386-server-5
libsmbclient.i386                                                                 3.0.33-3.29.el5_5                                                         rhel-i386-server-5
lvm2.i386                                                                          2.02.56-8.el5_5.4                                                         rhel-i386-server-5mkinitrd.i386                                                                      5.1.19.6-61.el5_5.1                                                       rhel-i386-server-5
nash.i386                                                                          5.1.19.6-61.el5_5.1                                                       rhel-i386-server-5
net-snmp-libs.i386                                                                 1:5.3.2.2-9.el5_5.1                                                       rhel-i386-server-5
nscd.i386                                                                          2.5-49.el5_5.2                                                            rhel-i386-server-5
·         This will download and install updates/packages. This may update several packages on server including kernel. 
·         Yum will download rpm files to the default download directory /var/cache/yum.
 [main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
keepcache=0
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
distroverpkg=redhat-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=1
plugins=1

# Note: yum-RHN-plugin doesn't honor this.
metadata_expire=1h
 # Default.
# installonly_limit = 3
# PUT YOUR REPOS HERE OR IN separate files named file.repo
# in /etc/yum.repos.d

·         Example:#yum localinstall  /var/cache/yum/rhel-i386-server-5/packages/*
·         Software testing is built into the yum command
·         A new listing should be done after patching for future reference.

cat newpatchlist.txt

vim-enhanced-6.3.046-0.40E.7
vim-minimal-6.3.046-0.40E.7
vixie-cron-4.1-50.el4
vsftpd-2.0.1-6.el4
vte-0.11.11-12.el4
vte-0.11.11-12.el4
wget-1.10.2-0.40E
which-2.16-4
wireless-tools-28-0.pre16.3.3.EL4
words-3.0-3.2
wvdial-1.54.0-3
·         # Broadcast message from root@RH5
  (/dev/pts/1) at 14:10 ...
o   The system is going down for reboot NOW!
·         AFTER THE PREDEFINDED, TESTING PEIORED THE UPDATES/PATCHES WILL NEED TO BE MOVED TO THE PRODUCTION ENVIROMENT.
·         Take the back-up of the following files/commands.
#uname -a
#ifconfig a
#cat /etc/hosts
#cat /etc/fstab
#df -h
#cat /etc/yum.conf
#cat /etc/grub.conf
#cat /etc/sysctl.conf
#rpm -qa > /packagelist_10152010.txt
#cat /packagelist_10152010.txt
#cat /etc/selinux/config
·         Example:#yum localinstall  /var/cache/yum/rhel-i386-server-5/packages/*
·         Software testing is built into the yum command
·         A new listing should be done after patching for future reference.
vim-enhanced-6.3.046-0.40E.7
vim-minimal-6.3.046-0.40E.7
vixie-cron-4.1-50.el4
vsftpd-2.0.1-6.el4
vte-0.11.11-12.el4
vte-0.11.11-12.el4
wget-1.10.2-0.40E
which-2.16-4
wireless-tools-28-0.pre16.3.3.EL4
words-3.0-3.2
wvdial-1.54.0-3
Xaw3d-1.5-24
# shutdown [OPTION]... TIME [MESSAGE] The shutdown command format.
# Broadcast message from root@RH5
   (/dev/pts/1) at 14:10 ...
   The system is going down for reboot NOW
·         Boot the server from old kernel through GRUB.
·         Edit the grub configuration file under /etc/grub.conf. (Delete the new kernel entry, make the old-kernel as default)
·         If the patching corrupts the present kernel which corrupts the GRUB, then perform the below tasks:
·         The GRUB build will be corrupted as OS is corrupted. So, insert OS-CD on the machine and boot from CD.
·         Proceed to the OS from the rescue mode, and select grub.conf.
·         Make appropriate changes to the file, which reflects old-kernel to be booted as default. (This makes the server to boot from it.)
·         Restart the server and Boot the server from the old-kernel.
·         If the old-kernel and new-kernel both are crashed while patching the machine, then we shall need to rebuild the server. Follow the below mentioned steps for rebuild:
·         Insert CD into the cd-rom.
·         Boot the machine from CD and proceed with installation.
·         After the installation, work with changing the system configuration files. (Screen-shot of the system files is taken before patching)
·         Work on restoration of files from the recent backup.
·         Work with Nimsoft-tier on getting the machine into monitoring.
·         Restart the machine and make sure that the machine is back UP to the normal state as before. (Monitors should work as normal as before after this reboot