Distributing patch across many systems

[Scott McDade]

I have 14 HPUX 11i systems that all require a patch. I Is there a way to broadcast this patch to all the systems without have to install on each from the console?

-Scott

[Steven E. Protter]

I keep an image, including patches of my ideal vg00 on an Ignite image server. I install the patch on one server, write a golden image and then distribute that image to many servers.

This strategy would work.

SEP

[Michael Steele_2]

SD-UX has a built in network transport for this purpose. You are prompted for the type of depot during the swinstall gui from the client if you choose. Or its just something like this:

swinstall -s hostname:/sd_depot/depot_UX_SYSAD

You can even do this from the /cdrom.

[Cheryl Griffin · Accepted solution]

Service Control Manager will allow you to set up all the machines as clients and push them all the same patch.

http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=B8337BA

Servicecontrol Manager enables systems administrators to:

Perform and monitor administration tasks on more than one node or node group with a single command.
Authorize users to run specific tools on specific nodes or node groups.
Track which users are performing administration tasks.
Integrate your own tools and scripts.