topic Re: software updates in Operating System - HP-UX

software updates

Dave Chamberlin — Mon, 10 Jul 2000 14:45:21 GMT

I wanted to see if I could update my glanceplus software for my k200 (10.20). I found
downloadable tar files on HP's upgrade center for glance and measureware and
downloaded and un-tarred them. The extracted files are just normal files, but there
are no instructions. Should I just move files to their intended directories replacing
the old versions? Any suggestions?
Thanks

Re: software updates

Kofi ARTHIABAH — Mon, 10 Jul 2000 14:52:20 GMT

You should be able to swinstall straight from the tar file

swinstall -s /tmp/tarfilename

Re: software updates

Brian M. Fisher — Mon, 10 Jul 2000 15:00:10 GMT

If your software is currently under support, you should be able to go to HP's Software Update Manager and download the software bundle that should then be installed with swinstall. If the bundle is in tar format, you probably do NOT need to untar it first.

Brian
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Re: software updates

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:09:57 GMT

Dave:

Since you have previously install Glance (and/or MeasureWare), you should stop them before your reinstallation.

As root, do the following:

1. /opt/perf/bin/mwa stop
2. /opt/perf/bin/midaemon -T
3. /opt/perf/bin/ttd -k
4. /opt/perf/bin/perstat

Step 4's output will show you that all daemons have been stopped. When true, proceed to reinstall Glance/MeasureWare with swinstall specifying reinstall=true.

To startup MeasureWare after the installation, do:

/opt/perf/bin/mwa start

...JRF...

Re: software updates

Tim Malnati — Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:50:23 GMT

All of the above is true regarding performing an swinstall directly on the tar file and shutting down Measureware before you do it.

Additionally, the version that you downloaded is probably the trial version. Don't worry about this where the current license you have installed will be recognized by the new software and will operate just fine. The only thing you will notice is that swlist will display a little strange where both the main version and the version with the '-TRY' extension will show up.

Re: software updates

Jim Welch — Mon, 10 Jul 2000 21:52:21 GMT

The software update manager depot is a licensed version, so you don't have to worry about it being a trial version.

Make sure that if you update glanceplus, you also update measureware. If you are installing the glanceplus pak, it already has both glanceplus and measureware in it.
The current version of both GlancePlus and MeasureWare on hpux is C.02.40

NOTE: the pak also has an ITO-SE agent. If you already have an ito agent running on the box, deselect the ito-se agent filesets prior to installing the pak.

Re: software updates

Dave Chamberlin — Fri, 14 Jul 2000 16:10:47 GMT

Once I got swinstall to work correctly, the TAR files installed just fine. Thanks!