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

Patch Management

yc_2 — Fri, 08 Dec 2000 14:17:53 GMT

Hi,

I have installed HP-UX ver 11.00 in K450. Would like to know what are the patches required to apply.

Thanks in advance,
YC

Re: Patch Management

Eddie Warren — Fri, 08 Dec 2000 14:41:32 GMT

First of all you want to load the latest patch bundle "XSWGR1100", located on your INSTALL and CORE OS CD. You want to also load On/Line Diagnostics and Hardware criticals. On your install you probably have already loaded the General Release of "XSWGR1100", the others are more for HP trouble shooting system problems.

Hope this helps.

Re: Patch Management

Steffi Jones_1 — Fri, 08 Dec 2000 14:49:14 GMT

hello,

about every 3 month hp releases a general patch bundle which includes patches created for known issues with the os.

It is available on the ITRC and I would recommend to plan a maintenance window every 3 month to install the patches. You will prevent problems before they happen.

You can check what you have installed right now with

swlist -l fileset -a patch_state | grep PH

This will give you a list of patches on the system and on the right side you will see a comment saying applied, committed or superseeded.

Applied means that this is the actual patch.
Comitted means that the patch was installed with the nosave optin and cannot be removed from the system anymore
superseeded: you will se that once you start installing newer patches. if you replace a patch with a newer version the older one will still show in the listing but will be listed as superseeded.

Steffi Jones

Re: Patch Management

James R. Ferguson — Fri, 08 Dec 2000 15:27:31 GMT

Hi:

After a cold install of 11.0 you should apply the latest ACE (Additional Core Enhancements) bundle and the General Release (GR) bundle either from the Support Plus CDROM or the ITRC Patch database (at this site).

A very interesting thread on differing philosophies of on-going patch management is this one:

http://my1.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x899c0559ff7cd4118fef0090279cd0f9!0,00.html

I think you will find this worth reading.

...JRF...

Re: Patch Management

Darrel Louis — Fri, 08 Dec 2000 15:31:20 GMT

Hi,

Before you start run:
show_patches -a # Check for active patches
show_patches -s # Check for Superseeded patches on system.
check_patches -i # Check for invalid patches

When you perform a swlist -l fileset, you will see superseeded patches in the list aswell.
This is a new strategy HP is using since hp-ux 11.X

Install the latest Support Plus CD.
Whitin swinstall, do Manage Patch Selection.
Select first only the Critical Patches.

When finished check with the commands above.
Also use:
swlist -l fileset -a state, to check if everything is configured.

http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/11.0/index.html
Patch Management.
http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/pdf/B3782-90829.pdf