Is there any HP UNIX freeware patch monitor tools?

[DharmaRao G]

Hi Team,

Any freeware patches upto day monitor tools are available for HP UNIX and LINUX/Red Hat.

Regards
Dharma

[Torsten.]

Can you explain "freeware patches upto day monitor tools"?

[Torsten.]

But if you want to analyze your system and check for needed and suggested patches you should use swa:

http://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=B6834AA

[Arturo Galbiati]

Hi Dharma,
you can run a patch assesment tool , cpm_collect.sh and it will tell what
patches not there in the system and which patches need to be update in the
system.

Download the script run , and upload and check the report,
http://ftp.itrc.hp.com/wpsl/bin/doc.pl/screen=wpslDownloadPatch/cpm_collect.sh?PatchName=/export/bin/cpm_collect.sh

It runs for HP-UX, I don't remember if it runs for Linux as well.

HTH,
Art

[dirk dierickx]

what linux distro are you running? each linux has build-in 'patching' reporting etc. handeled by the package manager.

[Bob E Campbell]

Thanks for the pointer Torsten. The preferred address for SWA is:

https://www.hp.com/go/swa

Direct links into Software Depot may age and break, but the above should provide pointers to the current bits regardless.

If you are looking for a framework to support the execution of the free tools you can look into HP SIM. While the current integration of SWA is only for an HP-UX CMS that may change in the future, and the standalone tools can always be custom integrated.

[Hakki Aydin Ucar]

as far as I can see swa does not need internet connection or it does ? probably it uses a patch catalog to make decisions.
I wonder how can it provide patch integrity without knowing if there is an update patch for your current patch in your system at any time ?

[VK2COT]

Hello,

One of the grievances that some customers
passed to me is that SWA does not
include unbundled products.

Specifically, company is using ONC+
(NFS). They want to audit if their version
of NFS needs an upgrade. SWA does not
capture it.

I would hope that this will change in future releases.

Otherwise, SWA is the best way to go.
If your firewall rules do not allow
your HP-UX servers to go to internet,
you can simply download the catalog file and
then run SWA locally.

Cheers,

VK2COT

[Bob E Campbell]

Hakki:

SWA does require an internet connection, but was built to allow that need to be met by an admin with a USB key and comfortable shoes. Not only is a catalog file used for analysis, but SWA can download patches directly to build a depot.

Between direct access and sneakernet we provide user control over the download process. This means that a user can direct SWA to ssh past a number of gateways and run a command such as curl to perform the actual download.


VK2COT:

Yes, product analysis has been on our list for some time... just not at the top of the list (which was multi-system analysis).

Product analysis is climbing up that list. I would love to have people explain what "product analysis" means to them. Is there more than one type or is it simply "a new version is available"?

[UVK]

If I have understood you right.

For Redhat Linux you can use "up2date" or "yum update" command to check ur system patches are upto date or not. You will need to have a login for redhat support network for this to work though.

Not sure if hpux has something like that.

Cheers,
uvk