Check for patches

[musaddaq_2]

Hi
I am Oracle 9i RAC Database(9.2.0.5)
with HP-UX 11.11. i want to check for the patches installed on my O/S.
Is there anyway out from which i can get the NO OF patches installed on my system till date.

Regards
Musaddaq

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

swlist -l product | grep PH

This will list all OS patches.

You need to check this list against the list Oracle has on its website. Also check the itrc patch database and see if any of the patches oracle recommends ahve been superseded.

The Oracle install guide must be followed precisely to succeed.

SEP

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Musaddaq:

As an alternative to running 'swlist' you can use the '/usr/contrib/bin/show_patches' utility. It provides a nicely formatted "front-end" to 'swlist" for showing the state of patches (superseded and active). See the man pages for more information.

# show_patches -a #...shows (a)ctive patches
# show_patches -s #...shows (s)uperceded patches
# show_patches #...shows all patches

Regards!

...JRF...

[Hakan Aribas]

Hi Musaddaq,

You can run the following command to see all installed patches:

swlist -l product *,c=patch

[musaddaq_2]

Thanks a lot guys. It was a gr8 help to me.

[Arunvijai_4]

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-Arun

[Nguyen Anh Tien]

Just using
#show_patches
to see all patches on your system
tienna