topic Re: Patch level in Operating System - HP-UX

Patch level

aruns_s — Sun, 20 May 2007 19:52:46 GMT

Hi all,

I have a request in hand by one of our client to determine patch level of some servers.Would u please guide me what are the bundles/products that determine patch level of a system? thanks in advance.

Re: Patch level

JJ de Haas — Sun, 20 May 2007 21:03:18 GMT

Hi,

Just an
# swlist -l fileset -a state -a patch_state

Will show you which patches are on the system.

It's possible to install patch bundles as well, make sure you receive the patch update CD/DVDs from HP.

Cheers,
Jan.

Re: Patch level

mavrick — Mon, 21 May 2007 01:50:05 GMT

Hi Arun,

You will get the patches APPLIED status by
the command

swlist -l patch

Re: Patch level

Rasheed Tamton — Mon, 21 May 2007 03:18:30 GMT

Hi Arun,

swlist -l patch
show_patches
swlist -l patch patch_number

and the old style
swlist -l product|grep PH

Regards.

Re: Patch level

Arunvijai_4 — Mon, 21 May 2007 03:58:00 GMT

Hi,

You can use # /usr/contrib/bin/show_patches

-Arun

Re: Patch level

Robert Fritz — Tue, 22 May 2007 13:19:20 GMT

Hi there. Those are all solutions for finding the current patch list. Sometimes a more interesting question is what patches you *need* Try out software assistant, available at: www.hp.com/go/swa

To find out what patches, updates and manual actions are needed for your systems.

Re: Patch level

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 22 May 2007 13:29:30 GMT

HI:

There is no single value that constitutes a patch level of an HP-UX system.

Perhaps the most "standard" measure is the date/revision of the Stardard Patch Bundle Quality Pack. For instance, for 11.23 the latest QPK is the June 2007 one : QPK1123(B.11.23.0706.064).

Note the notation '0706' refers to June (month 06) of year 2007 (07).

Standard patch bundles for each supported operating system level can be obtained via the ITRC Patch Database:

https://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/releaseIndexPage.do?BC=main|

See also:

https://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/rsb/rsbDisplay.do?fileName=patches_main/hpux_bundles_overview.htm

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Patch level

Geoff Wild — Tue, 22 May 2007 13:58:15 GMT

If it's a particular executable you want to know about, use the what command:

# what /usr/lbin/remshd
/usr/lbin/remshd:
Copyright (c) 1983, 1988 The Regents of the University of California.
All rights reserved.
patch id : PHNE_33793

That tells me I have patch PHNE_33793 for remshd

Rgds...Geoff

Re: Patch level

Bob E Campbell — Wed, 23 May 2007 14:49:34 GMT

As you have seen there is not a crisp definition of "patch level". The closest we get to that is either the Quality Pack (QPK) patch bundles. These are the "recommended" core patches for HP-UX. These collections are updated twice a year.

You can use the Software Assistant (SWA) QPK analyzer to search for QPK updates. You can also use the PATCH or CHAIN analyzers to compare against a user-defined patch list.

Go to https://hp.com/go/swa for more information or to download the tool.

Re: Patch level

Sp4admin — Wed, 23 May 2007 16:10:09 GMT

Hi,

you could use the show_patches command and swlist.

show_patches -a *** Active patches***
show_patches -s *** Superseded patches ***
swlist -l patch *** willl show all patches

sp,