topic Re: Distributing patch across many systems in Operating System - HP-UX

Distributing patch across many systems

Scott McDade — Fri, 21 Mar 2003 14:34:04 GMT

I have 14 HPUX 11i systems that all require a patch. I Is there a way to broadcast this patch to all the systems without have to install on each from the console?

-Scott

Re: Distributing patch across many systems

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 21 Mar 2003 14:36:57 GMT

I keep an image, including patches of my ideal vg00 on an Ignite image server. I install the patch on one server, write a golden image and then distribute that image to many servers.

This strategy would work.

SEP

Re: Distributing patch across many systems

Michael Steele_2 — Fri, 21 Mar 2003 15:06:22 GMT

SD-UX has a built in network transport for this purpose. You are prompted for the type of depot during the swinstall gui from the client if you choose. Or its just something like this:

swinstall -s hostname:/sd_depot/depot_UX_SYSAD

You can even do this from the /cdrom.

Re: Distributing patch across many systems

Cheryl Griffin — Fri, 21 Mar 2003 15:18:39 GMT

Service Control Manager will allow you to set up all the machines as clients and push them all the same patch.

http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=B8337BA

Servicecontrol Manager enables systems administrators to:

Perform and monitor administration tasks on more than one node or node group with a single command.
Authorize users to run specific tools on specific nodes or node groups.
Track which users are performing administration tasks.
Integrate your own tools and scripts.