hp-ux patch verify

[PSS SYS ADMIN]

Hi everyone,
there's a fast and easy way to verify if the patch installed in a hpux environment is retired or critical and as been superseded?

Thank you.
Regards...
PSS

[Brian Bergstrand]

swlist -l patch -a patch_state

or

swlist -l patch -v

For all of the info on a patch (ie, what it supersedes, critical, etc).

You can also go to http://itrc.hp.com/ and type in the patch # and find out if the patch is critical, retired or superseded.

HTH.

[Helen French]

Yes! Enter your patch name here and that will tell you if it's retired, critical or superceded:

http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/mainPage.do

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

If I understand your question correctly, you can go to the ITRC Patch Database, and select the patch you are interested in. You will be presented with the choice of the patch you specified, any "recommended" patch and the "most recent" one. Any or all of these may be the same or different. All patches are marked with an icon to denote if they are critical and/or if they require a reboot to install or have special installation instructions.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Cheryl Griffin]

http://www.itrc.hp.com --> Standard Patch Bundles (under patching) --> View Support Plus Release then select a bundle, for example Jun '03 --> Then a bundle name, for example HWE, QPK, Gold, etc. Patches with warnings will show a warning icon /!\

[Elena Leontieva]

Hi,

If understand you correctly your question is about the patch ON your system.

swlist -l fileset -a state will tell if the patch is installed and configured;

To figure if the patch is critical you can follow the links above;

I am not sure how to figure that the patch is superseded on the system.


Elena.

[Brian Bergstrand]

Elana,

The swlist commands I originally posted will let you know if a patch as been superseded by another locally applied patch. However, it will not tell you if there is another newer patch not yet applied that has superseded your local patch. For that you have to go to the ITRC site mentioned.

I wasn't sure what the OP wanted, so I gave both options.

[Elena Leontieva]

Thank you, Brian, I guess swlist -l patch -v PHXX.... is all he needs.

Elena.

[PSS SYS ADMIN]

What I need is to know if all the patch installed on a hpux host are superseeded/retired by a new patch on ITRC.
But I don't want to put 200 and over patch one by one on the ITRC to know if they are superseeded/retired.
I want to know if there's a fast and automatic way to do it.

[Tim D Fulford]

It will depend on your contract but HP ofer a Software Update Manager (SUM) The link on the ITRC homepage. What you do is run a small program (that does swlist....) & submit these results to HP. Fairly quickly it will tell you what patches you box needs etc. You then download a small prog & it will ftp hp & get the patches for you.

Ask your friendly HP sales rep, or raise a call with HP. I'm fairly sure this is a pay for service & is part of your contract, but I dont think it is expensive as you do alot of the work. This is NOT a decision free process on your belalf, as sometimes there are choices to be made.

I would send you the doc I have written on SUM, but it contains passwords etc. I'll see if I can sanitise it!!

Regards

Tim

[Tim D Fulford]

I can speak utter tosh sometimes, Custome Patch manager (CPM) NOT SUM