topic Re: swlist - 11.11 or 11.23 in Operating System - HP-UX

swlist - 11.11 or 11.23

John Jimenez — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:12:01 GMT

Would someone mind looking at this attachment and tell me if they have ever seen this and tell me what could have happened?

A year ago we purcahsed 2 remanufactured Servers from HP. One was installed at our D.R. location. When it was installed it was planned to backup two of our servers that run HP-UX 11.23, and when it was installed it looked to be exactly that. Because this is DR this system hardly is used, and I have only upgraded patches once.

The other Server was supposed to be installed here, but because of power limitations it was just recently turned on. Today I did a swlist on the server here and noticed that the Operating system is 11.11. I decided to double check and swlist the other server off site. and most of it says 11.23, but some of it says 11.11. Can anyone suggest how I should proceed to fix? thanks in advance

Re: swlist - 11.11 or 11.23

Ninad_1 — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:23:29 GMT

Hi,

Only the BUNDLE B.11.11 Patch Bundle
seems to be 11.11

Am not sure - but was the server update from 11.11 to 11.23 , instead of a fresh installation ?

You could look using
swlist -l bundle -a install_date
when each bundle was installed and may be get a clue as well.

Regards,
Ninad

Re: swlist - 11.11 or 11.23

John Jimenez — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:55:03 GMT

Thank you very much. To me it looks like 11.11 was installed in jan. 2007 and then a few months later 11.23 was installed. Is that what you see?

I was sure we ordered 11.23 back then, but our support agreement says otherwise. I am going to have to dig through and find the original order and see what happened. thanks again, I will assign points soon

Re: swlist - 11.11 or 11.23

Ninad_1 — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:15:33 GMT

Hi,

No.
It seems that the OS installation was done on 26-Jan-2007 , then
J4189-11001C
B2491BA
B3693AA
B3929DA
bundles were installed on 29-Mar-2007
and BUNDLE
FEATURE11i
HWEnable11i
QPKAPPS
QPKBASE
were installed on 12-Dec-2007

You can check which patches were installed as part of the Bundle using
swlist -l fileset BUNDLE

Regards,
Ninad

Re: swlist - 11.11 or 11.23

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:19:59 GMT

Hi:

The only 11.11 labeled item I see in your original attachment is "BUNDLE". You could examine its contents with:

# swlist -l fileset BUNDLE

Your server looks like an 11.23 one is all respects. Do;

# uname -a

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: swlist - 11.11 or 11.23

John Jimenez — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:44:53 GMT

Yes I did the patches in December. I think all the stuff done in Jan. and March were done at HP. How was someone able to install an 11.11 Bundle on an operating system running 11.23? Can I swremove it?

Re: swlist - 11.11 or 11.23

John Jimenez — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:48:10 GMT

# BUNDLE B.11.11 Patch Bundle
# BUNDLE.PHSS_37201 1.0 linker + fdp cumulative patch
BUNDLE.PHSS_37201.C-KRN 1.0 OS-Core.C-KRN
BUNDLE.PHSS_37201.C-MIN 1.0 OS-Core.C-MIN
BUNDLE.PHSS_37201.C-MIN-64ALIB 1.0 OS-Core.C-MIN-64ALIB
BUNDLE.PHSS_37201.C2-INC 1.0 ProgSupport.C2-INC
BUNDLE.PHSS_37201.CMDS2-AUX 1.0 OS-Core.CMDS2-AUX
BUNDLE.PHSS_37201.CORE-64SLIB 1.0 OS-Core.CORE-64SLIB
BUNDLE.PHSS_37201.CORE-SHLIBS 1.0 OS-Core.CORE-SHLIBS
BUNDLE.PHSS_37201.LANG-MIN 1.0 ProgSupport.LANG-MIN
BUNDLE.PHSS_37201.LINKER-HELP 1.0 OS-Core.LINKER-HELP
BUNDLE.PHSS_37201.PROG-AX-64ALIB 1.0 ProgSupport.PROG-AX-64ALIB
BUNDLE.PHSS_37201.PROG2-AUX 1.0 ProgSupport.PROG2-AUX

Re: swlist - 11.11 or 11.23

Patrick Wallek — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:58:18 GMT

It appears to me that someone put some bad information in when they created that particular bundle.

The contents of the bundle, PHSS_37201, are for 11.23.

Patch Name: PHSS_37201
Patch Description: s700_800 11.23 linker + fdp cumulative patch

At this point, it appears that this can be chalked up to someones mistake during bundle creation since it is NOT really an 11.11 patch in that bundle.

Re: swlist - 11.11 or 11.23

John Jimenez — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:31:51 GMT

I thank you all for your input. So it sounds like it's okay to leave as is.

My next step is to go back and research what we actually purchased, because both my SAID says 11.11, but one server has 11.23 and the other one has 11.11. I would prefer on hope that we had purchased 11.23.

Re: swlist - 11.11 or 11.23

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:46:58 GMT

Hi (again) John:

> I would prefer on hope that we had purchased 11.23.

If you purchased a support contract (which I would assume you did) then you are entitled to free upgrades. Simply order them from SUM:

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

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: swlist - 11.11 or 11.23

Dennis Handly — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:49:34 GMT

>So it sounds like it's okay to leave as is.

You could remove that bundle tag but leave the individual patches there, if that would prevent further confusions.
# swmodify -u BUNDLE

Alternately, you may be able to use swmodify to change the description to say "11.23".

Or remove PHSS_37201 and install the newer PHSS_38134.

Re: swlist - 11.11 or 11.23

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:09:01 GMT

Hi (again) John:

I agree with Dennis regarding removing the "BUNDLE" name from the software bundle named 'BUNDLE'. The following will remove the wrapper name leaving the contents (patches) installed and undisturbed. The patch(es) will simply show in a 'swlist' as if you had installed each of it/them separately:

# swremove BUNDLE.

NOTE the dot ('.') immediately after the bundle name ("BUNDLE").

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: swlist - 11.11 or 11.23

John Jimenez — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:15:43 GMT

Thanks guys. I went ahead and swlist removed BUNDLE. And, its about time I install Dec 2008 patch bundles anyway.