topic Re: Upgrade individual Products in Operating System - HP-UX

Upgrade individual Products

Waqar Razi — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:34:17 GMT

I am a new hpux admin and I have been given the task of upgrading the OS products and applications running on hpux servers to match the latest and supported stuff. Recently I have upgraded Ignite to C.7.6. I need to know some other products that can be upgraded. Can some one give me some direction on what to see and how to verify if I have the latest available supported version installed on our servers.

Re: Upgrade individual Products

Pete Randall — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:54:12 GMT

Try running swlist first to see what products you've got and what versions they are. Then maybe we can advise you on what could be upgraded.

Pete

Re: Upgrade individual Products

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:56:37 GMT

Shalom,

I hope you did an swremove on Ignite before you upgraded it or your customization will be lost.

There are two general categories here. Those depots that can be upgraded in place without impact, like secure shell, and those like Ignite that require you to back up your customization, swremove and then swinstall

I'd suggest swinstall -i to get a look at whats there.

Or:

swlist -l product

SEP

Re: Upgrade individual Products

Waqar Razi — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:03:21 GMT

Lets for example, I give u output of swlist on one of the servers:

# Bundle(s):
#

B3929CA B.11.11.03.03 HP OnLineJFS
B3929DA 3.5-ga15-04 HP OnLineJFS 3.5
B6848BA 1.4.gm.46.7 Ximian GNOME 1.4 GTK+ Li
B8111AA 1.2.2.15.00 Java 2 RTE for HP-UX (70
B8465BA A.01.05.08 HP WBEM Services for HP-
B9073BA B.06.02 HP-UX iCOD (Instant Capa
B9098AA 1.2.2.15.00 Java 2 Plugin for HP-UX
B9788AA 1.3.1.13.01 Java2 1.3 SDK for HP-UX
B9789AA 1.3.1.13.01 Java2 1.3 RTE for HP-UX
BUNDLE B.11.11 Patch Bundle
BUNDLE11i B.11.11.0306.1 Required Patch Bundle fo
Base-VXVM B.03.50.5 Base VERITAS Volume Mana
CDE-English B.11.11 English CDE Environment
ECC60 B.2008.02.01 ECC.6.0patches
FDDI-00 B.11.11.02 PCI FDDI;Supptd HW=A3739
FEATURE11-11 B.11.11.0209.5 Feature Enablement Patch
FibrChanl-00 B.11.11.12 PCI/HSC FibreChannel;Sup
FibrChanl-01 B.11.11.03 PCI-X FibreChannel;Suppt
GOLDAPPS11i B.11.11.0406.5 Gold Applications Patche
GOLDBASE11i B.11.11.0406.5 Gold Base Patches for HP
GigEther-00 B.11.11.19 PCI/HSC GigEther;Supptd
GigEther-01 B.11.11.15 PCI/PCI-X GigEther;Suppt
HPUX11i-OE B.11.11.0406 HP-UX 11i Operating Envi
HPUX11i-OE-Ent B.11.11.0412 HP-UX Enterprise Operati
HPUXBase64 B.11.11 HP-UX 64-bit Base OS
HPUXBaseAux B.11.11.0406 HP-UX Base OS Auxiliary
HWEnable11i B.11.11.0406.4 Hardware Enablement Patc
IEther-00 B.11.11.05 PCI/PCI-X IEther;Supptd
IGNITE C.7.6.100 HP-UX Installation Utili
Ignite-UX-11-11 C.7.6.100 HP-UX Installation Utili
J4240AA B.11.11.07 Auto-Port Aggregation So
MOZILLA 1.4.0.01.04 Mozilla 1.4 for HP-UX
MOZILLAsrc 1.4.0.01.04 Mozilla 1.4 Source distr
OnlineDiag B.11.11.14.15 HPUX 11.11 Support Tools
OpenSSL A.00.09.07-d.002 Secure Network Communi
RAID-00 B.11.11.01 PCI RAID; Supptd HW=A585
SWPACK11i B.11.11.0406.3 Enablement Patches 11i,
T1335AC A.03.02.04 HP-UX Virtual Partitions
T1455AA 1.3.1.13.01 Java2 1.3 Netscape Plugi
T1456AA 1.4.2.12.00 Java2 1.4 SDK for HP-UX
T1456AAaddon 1.4.2.02.01 Java2 1.4 SDK -AA addon
T1457AA 1.4.2.02.01 Java2 1.4 RTE for HP-UX
T1457AAaddon 1.4.2.02.01 Java2 1.4 RTE -AA addon
T1458AA 1.4.2.02.01 Java2 1.4 Netscape Plugi
VPARMGR B.11.11.01.02 Virtual Partition Manage
hpuxwsApache A.2.0.49.00 HP-UX Apache-based Web S
hpuxwsTomcat A.4.1.29.02 HP-UX Tomcat-based Servl
hpuxwsWebmin A.1.070.00 HP-UX Webmin-based Admin
hpuxwsXml A.2.00 HP-UX XML Web Server Too
jfs B.2008.02.19 jfs
perl D.5.8.0.B Perl Programming Languag
scsiU320-00 B.11.11.01 PCI SCSI U320; Supptd HW
tachyon B.11.11 tachyon
#
# Product(s) not contained in a Bundle:
#

DATA-PROTECTOR A.05.50 HP OpenView Storage Data
ECC 5.2.00 EMC_Software
EMCpower HP.5.1.0_b160 PowerPath
EMCpower_patch501 HP.5.0.1_b007 PowerPath
HPOvAcc 2.00.000 HP OpenView Accessories
HPOvEa 1.00.000 HP OpenView Event/Action
HPOvLcore 2.00.000 HP OpenView Core Functio
HPOvPerf 4.51.000 HP OpenView Performance
SYMCLI V6.4.3.0 EMC Data Storage Systems
SYMCLI V6.4.3.0 EMC Data Storage Systems
sudo 1.6.9p17 sudo

Re: Upgrade individual Products

Torsten. — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:45:50 GMT

Almost everything is from 2004 - I would suggest to use SWA to get the system updated.

https://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=B6834AA

Re: Upgrade individual Products

Tim Nelson — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:18:21 GMT

Again I agree with Torsten, some of your individual products probably require OS patches. You MUST review the patch depandancies for each be reading the release notes.

Much easier and/or probably required to get the OS up to date then work on the others as you are way way far behind.

With that said here is what I see from your list that you may be able to update independantly AFTER taking note of the above and I believe most do not require a reboot.

Again, most of these WILL require some patch level better than June 2004.

B8111AA 1.2.2.15.00 Java 2 RTE for HP-UX (70
B9098AA 1.2.2.15.00 Java 2 Plugin for HP-UX
B9788AA 1.3.1.13.01 Java2 1.3 SDK for HP-UX
B9789AA 1.3.1.13.01 Java2 1.3 RTE for HP-UX
IGNITE C.7.6.100 HP-UX Installation Utili
Ignite-UX-11-11 C.7.6.100 HP-UX Installation Utili
OnlineDiag B.11.11.14.15 HPUX 11.11 Support Tools
OpenSSL A.00.09.07-d.002 Secure Network Communi
T1457AA 1.4.2.02.01 Java2 1.4 RTE for HP-UX
T1457AAaddon 1.4.2.02.01 Java2 1.4 RTE -AA addon
hpuxwsApache A.2.0.49.00 HP-UX Apache-based Web S
hpuxwsTomcat A.4.1.29.02 HP-UX Tomcat-based Servl
perl D.5.8.0.B Perl Programming Languag
DATA-PROTECTOR A.05.50 HP OpenView Storage Data
HPOvAcc 2.00.000 HP OpenView Accessories
HPOvEa 1.00.000 HP OpenView Event/Action
HPOvLcore 2.00.000 HP OpenView Core Functio
HPOvPerf 4.51.000 HP OpenView Performance
SYMCLI V6.4.3.0 EMC Data Storage Systems
SYMCLI V6.4.3.0 EMC Data Storage Systems
sudo 1.6.9p17 sudo

Re: Upgrade individual Products

Pete Randall — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:32:22 GMT

I think the way I would approach this is to go to the Software Update Manager ( http://www.itrc.hp.com/service/sum/home.do ), download the latest patch bundles, then order the latest application CDs. You can then apply the patch bundles and go through the application CDs to update all your products. Some of the products, like the OpenView stuff, will probably need to be ordered separately because it's not delivered on the application CDs.

Pete

Re: Upgrade individual Products

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:34:31 GMT

Hi:

The SWA (Software Assistant Tool) will allow you to collect (download) *patches* and patch bundles.

You might want to refresh your non-patch products from:

http://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/index.do

...along with a newer Operating Environment CD/DVD and/or the various Application CD/DVD media for your release:

http://www.itrc.hp.com/service/sum/home.do

Regards!

...JRF...