How to find the currently installed patch level in HPUX

[senthil_kumar_1]

Hi All,

We are using HPUX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11.

We want to update the patches, i have some questions regarding that.

1)How to find the currently installed patch level in HPUX (For a say, For suse linux the patches are named as patch level 1 , 2 ,3 ...)

Like that how to see the currently installed patch level in HPUX.


2)What is latest patch available for above mentioned HPUX OS?


3)Is it possible we can revert the server if new patch is giving problem?

[Pete Randall]

1) Use swlist:

root# swlist |more
GOLDBASE11i B.11.11.0312.4 Gold Base Patches for HP-UX 11i v1, December 2003

- or similar -

2) Either Jun or Sep 2009, depending on what release - see:

http://www13.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/releaseIndexPage.do

3) Yes, either through swremove or by restoring the Ignite backup that you make sure to take before patching.


Pete

[Hakki Aydin Ucar]

1-swlist -l product | grep -i ph

2-go to page https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductsList.do?category=ER

3-I never faced this issue with a new patch as far

[Sunny123_1]

Hi

1.Use swlist for this

2. You will get this in forum itself.

3.Yes with swremove


Regards
Sunny

[Fabio Ettore · Accepted solution]

Hi,

1) there isn't the same patch concept in HP-UX, anyway you can check by

swlist -l bundle

which versions of GOLDQPK (GOLDAPPs and GOLDBase bundles) are installed. They're released quarterly.

2) So the latest version is September '09.

3) Yes, you can technically remove the patch bundle by swremove, even if I shouldn't suggest it.

HTH.

Best regards,
Fabio

[Torsten.]

hp-ux 11.00 is out of support since december 2006, not sure about 10.20, but maybe since 2002 - so you won't find newer patches for them.

Follow the above advises for 11.11, get the current installed version, download the current and install.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

> 1)How to find the currently installed patch level in HPUX (For a say, For suse linux the patches are named as patch level 1 , 2 ,3 ...)

There is no one unique patch level in HP-UX. The closest indicator would be either the date of the standard patch bundles and/or the date of the "update release" for current releases with Operating Environments that are refreshed.

For example, for 11.31:

The most recent, standard patch bundle is:

QPK1131 (B.11.31.0903.334a)

The '0903' signifies the year and month.

The most recent Operating Environment (OE) update would be "update-4":

http://h20338.www2.hp.com/hpux11i/us/en/products/hpux11iv3-update4-overview.html

To identify the current OE simply do:

# swlist -l bundle HPUX11i-*

> 2) What is latest patch available for above mentioned HPUX OS?

Go to the ITRC Patch Database and look at the Standard Patch Bundles that are available. The 10.20 and 11.0 releases are long out of support and no new patches have been issued since their "demise". For 11.0, you can still get the final bundle, dated March 2004.

3)Is it possible we can revert the server if new patch is giving problem?

You should always have a current Ignite backup available should a major patch application fail. If kernel patches have been applied you can't simply boot from an old kernel and be done. If only a single patch (or perhaps just a few) have been applied you can use 'swremove' to remove the patch and return to the previous state. Using DRD (in 11.23 or 11.31) is also another safety net.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Mel Burslan]

1. HPUX does not have specific patch levels like Solaris or AIX do. There are patch bundles, published quarterly or every 6 months (I don't know the current frequency). If your servers are getting patched by these bundles and only by these bundles, they are the closest you can get to a patch level on hpux. To find the latest bundle installed on your system:

swlist -l bundle

and look for GOLDBASE or QPK etc.

2. 10.20 and 11.0 are end-of-life'd quite a while ago and out of support. Hence, you can not download patches from HP anymore. Your best bet is to find a CD with the latest patch bundle from someone who has it. 11.11 is still supported and you can download patches for this version of hpux from the patch database. It is quite trivial once you get there

3. There is swremove command which I do not trust whole-heartedly for removal of oatch bundles as they change so many things. And there is your life-jacket called an ignite tape. Make at least one, preferably two ignite tapes or net_recovery archives (more preferably one of each if you can) and use this to install a system just like it was before the patching started.

HTH

[Suraj K Sankari]

Hi,

Try these commands,
swlist | grep -i QPK
swlist | grep -i gold
swlist -l bundle

Suraj

[Jeeshan]

Try this command

#swlist -l patch|grep -i