topic Re: Command to use to display applied patches in Operating System - HP-UX

Command to use to display applied patches

Ginny Merlino — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 08:17:24 GMT

Hi,

We recently purchased two used L2000 machines.
We received them with HP 11.11 installed. I would like to find out what patch level we are installed to. Are there any commands that I could use to view this information?

Thanks!
Ginny Merlino

Re: Command to use to display applied patches

Hoefnix — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 08:22:43 GMT

Hi,

swlist will report what is installed on the box. If any patch bundles are installed you will see them.

swlist -l fileset will report more details.
For other options see manpage.

HTH,
Peter

Re: Command to use to display applied patches

Elmar P. Kolkman — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 08:26:03 GMT

And if you want to know which patches touched a specific file:

swlist -l file | grep

Re: Command to use to display applied patches

jpcast_real — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 08:30:25 GMT

As the other guy has said the swlist option is your best tool. It has a lot of options like

- swlist -l fileset -a state : It lists you the patches and its state
- swlist -l product : It lists you the products installed
- swlist -l bundle : It lists you the bundles (bunch of products ) installed

Re: Command to use to display applied patches

John Carr_2 — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 08:39:00 GMT

Hi

you can also run a patch assesment to see if the servers are patched to the HP recommended levels

http://www5.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/assessSystemsPage.do?BC=patch.breadcrumb.main

John.

Re: Command to use to display applied patches

Ginny Merlino — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 08:50:37 GMT

Thank you all for the information.

John Carr, You said there is a way to run a patch assessment. How do I do that?

Ginny

Re: Command to use to display applied patches

Jeff Schussele — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 10:04:04 GMT

Hi Ginny,

Best way to list patches is:

swlist -l patch > /tmp/patches.out

HTH,
Jeff

Re: Command to use to display applied patches

Robert-Jan Goossens — Tue, 06 Apr 2004 10:11:11 GMT

Hi Ginny,

For the patch assesment tool in US try this link.

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/wrap.do?pageKey=patch.html.propatch

Hope this helps,
Robert-Jan

Re: Command to use to display applied patches

John Carr_2 — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 07:11:11 GMT

Ginny

click on the provided thread it will take you to the hp upload patch site. here click on "upload new system information" this will take you to a 3 step process.
1 download to your server the scripts cpm_collect.sh step 2 run it as any user , this create a file about patches and system information the file will be called hostname.fs step three go back to the web page and upload the file. press the submit button and follow the options you will then get a list of recommended patches for your system. its all quite easy follow the directions on the web site.

John.

Re: Command to use to display applied patches

Ginny Merlino — Wed, 07 Apr 2004 07:57:07 GMT

Dear John Carr,

Thanks for clarifying that for me. It's greatly appreciated!

Ginny