how to check patch level of a HPUX system

[Veeravalli]

Hi HPUX Gurus!

I installed sep 2005 patch bundle on one of our HPUX 11i v1 server.
it said it installed successfully!

in Sun-solaris we have "showrev" command which will tell us that the kernel level is September 2005 or something like that.

is there a HPUX equivalent to "showrev" so I can get the patch revision level on our server?

please advice!

Thank you!
-PV

[Deoncia Grayson_1 · Accepted solution]

swlist | grep -i "2005"

or you can do just a swlist | more to get list of all software and patch bundles on your server.

[Geoff Wild]

/usr/contrib/bin/show_patches

Rgds...Geoff

[Geoff Wild]

For kernel:

what /stand/vmunix |more

Rgds...Geoff

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

There is no one indicator of patch level on HP-UX.

If you follow common practice, the closest thing is to look for how current the SupportPlus bundles are:

# swlist | grep -i gold

Associated with the output will be the date of the bundle.

A more correct, precise question is to ask about specific patches. A nice front-end to 'swlist' for doing this is:

# show_patches -a -s

See the man pages for each command for more information.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Piergiacomo Perini]

Hi PV,

with the command
"swlist"
you can have an idea of patch level on your
server (bundle, product not in the bundle).

regards

[Peter Godron]

Hi,
swlist -l
with replaced by "root", "depot", "bundle","product", "subproduct", "fileset", "file", "shroot","prroot", "category", "patch", "control_file".

For example
swlist -l patch
will list all products installed and any additional patches installed for that product

Regards

[Veeravalli]

Thank you very much for your immediate response!

I ran the following command and got the answer:

[upgrade]pveerava
/home/pveerava> swlist -l bundle |grep 2005
GOLDAPPS11i B.11.11.0509.429 Applications Patches for HP-UX 11i v1, September 2005
GOLDBASE11i B.11.11.0509.429 Base Patches for HP-UX 11i v1, September 2005
HWEnable11i B.11.11.0509.430 Hardware Enablement Patches for HP-UX 11i v1, September 2005
[upgrade]pveerava
/home/pveerava>


Thank you!

else, I was thinking of running a collect and upload it to HP site and run another analysis, etc.

Thank you very much for all the suggesions!

-PV

[Veeravalli]

There is LOT of talent in the forum!
Thanks to each of the gurus who responded!

I got the answer to my question!

thank you!