topic Re: Sys Admin in Operating System - HP-UX

Sys Admin

Jason_93 — Tue, 04 Jun 2002 19:56:21 GMT

Let me preface this with the statement, I am an idiot when it comes to hp ux. I have inherited a HP9000 10.20 800 system. It is my belief that it is seriously lacking in patches. Is there an application that I can run to show me what patch level the system is at compared to what is currently available?

Re: Sys Admin

Uday_S_Ankolekar — Tue, 04 Jun 2002 20:04:25 GMT

Yes... You can login in to ITRC home page and then on the right hand side click on maintenance and Support and follow the instruction under Custom Patch Manager for customized patch bundles.

The script here run patch analysis and install all the patches required on the server

-USA..

Re: Sys Admin

Helen French — Tue, 04 Jun 2002 20:06:16 GMT

You can check the current patch level with:

# swlist
# man swlist

Check the date specified with the listing.

Use HP's custom patch manager to compare this with the latest patches available:

http://us-support3.external.hp.com/wps/bin/doc.pl/sid=0fed06251acd540cd6

Re: Sys Admin

A. Clay Stephenson — Tue, 04 Jun 2002 20:07:34 GMT

Jason,

If I were you, I would do a 'swlist'. If you don't see 'General Release Patches for HP-UX Servers (December 2001)' then I would install the Dec. 2001 General Release Patch Set using swinstall followed by the Hardware Enablement and Critical Patches for Dec. 2001. That will bring you up to date.

Re: Sys Admin

Martin Johnson — Tue, 04 Jun 2002 20:19:47 GMT

Make sure you backup your system before installing the patches! If it has been a while since the last patch update, you may be installing a large number of patches. It has been my experience that the larger the number of patches install, the greater the chance of something going wrong. Backing out a large number of patches with swremove usually doesn't work (the backout order does not match the install order which causes problems with multiple patched files). The only safe solution for the backout is to restore from backup.

Marty

Re: Sys Admin

Sanjay_6 — Tue, 04 Jun 2002 21:04:39 GMT

Hi Jason,

You can try CPM. Try this link below. Once you do the analysis using the patch list created on your system, it will tell you what are the patches on your system and what is the latest patch if any, hp recommended patches etc. Have a look at the fay in the link below for more info,

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/wps/bin/doc.pl/sid=b6963be602e436806c

Hope this helps.

Regds