bundle installation pre-check

[James Ellis_1]

I am soon going to install a patch bundle to get the patches updated. Am curious if there is anything I need to do besides committing the patches (via cleanup -c 1) and doing a make_recovery? Currently two databases reside on the server. Thanks in advance for any inputs.
-James

[Sebastian Galeski_1]

Hi before You start install new patches check status of all products already installed, do next command:
swlist -l fileset -a state | grep -v conf |grep -v "^#"

result should be empty. If isn't try to repair it.

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi James,

After a swlist check & any cleanup required you can do the swinstall with a -p to preview w/o any actual install to be notified of any problems that would occur i.e. dependencies unfulfilled.

Rgds,
Jeff

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Before you install a new patch bundle, I would do 'cleanup -c 1' to commit a baseline as you yourself have indicated. Before doing that, it is always good to backup '/var/adm/sw/' (the directory). Taking an Ignite make_tape_recovery images is always excellent insurance too.

After the patch application, run the 'check_patches' utility. This is a front-end to 'swlist' which verifies that all patches have been correctly installed.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Mark Greene_1]

Check with your database vendor that they have certified their product with the patch bundle, or not. They may require/specifically exclude certain individual patches.

HTH
mark

[Helen French]

Hi James:

I would suggest you to do the following:

1) Create make_tape_recovery tapes
2) Create your patch bundle with Custom Patch Manager:
http://us-support.external.hp.com/wps/bin/doc.pl/sid=8e3176d41a23c39e64
3) Preview the results with -p option using swinstall (if needed)
4) Do the Installation
5) Run cleanup command if old patches exists

HTH,
Shiju

[Sebastian Galeski_1]

run swinstall with option:
-x patch_match_target=true, if you do it from command line or:
menu Action->Manage patch selection and choose Automatically select patches from existing software on the depot if You use interactive swinstall