HPUX OS installation date

[System Unix]

Hi,
I use the command head /var/adm/swagent.log to see the date the server has been installed.( if patches/software are installed that date will not change).

Is there another way to check the installation date or this is good enough ?

thanks,

Reuven

[Patrick Wallek]

You would be better off using swlist and some of the options available to you. If your swagent.log gets cleared out then the information you seek will not be available.

I am not at the office and don't have access to my machines at the moment, but I have used swlist numerous times for information requested by Sarbanes-Oxley auditors.

A couple of those requirements were OS installation date and patches installed within the last calendar year.

[System Unix]

Hi Patric,

I could use the swlist command with -v that will give the installation date, but of what ???

rgds,

Reuven

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

You need to find the Bundle containing your operating environment. I'm sure there is a better way of narrowing it down but this crude method worked for me:

# swlist -v -l bundle |more
# Initializing...
#
.
.
.
.
/Ent
...skipping...

HPUX11i-OE-Ent
.
.
.
.
mod_date Mon Mar 15 15:13:03 EST 2004
mod_time 1079381583
create_date Mon Mar 15 14:52:25 EST 2004
create_time 1079380345
install_date 200403151513.03


I skipped over large portions of the output to reduce the size of this posting, but essentially I piped the output to more, then used "/Ent" to skip to the Enterprise Operating Environment portion, then scrolled down to Install_date.


Pete
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[Torsten.]

You can use
/opt/ignite/bin/print_manifest
This could give you the date the system was installed.
There are some files that usually never change the date, for example /dev/config and others.

[System Unix]

Hi Torsten,

I did not find anything in the print_manifest that could give me any clue of the instaltin date.

ll /dev/config
crw-r--r-- 1 root sys 69 0x000000 Dec 9 2005 /dev/config



head /var/adm/sw/swagent.log

======= 10/08/06 11:46:56 EDT BEGIN install AGENT SESSION (pid=211)

I did not find any correlation between the 2 dates. I know for sure that this server has been installed on the 10/08/06


thanks,
Reuven

[Naveej.K.A]

Hello Reuven,

print_manifest does show the system installation date (the first few lines).

System Information

Your Hewlett-Packard computer has software installed and
configured as follows.

The system was created April 05, 2006, 10:40:15 SST.
It was created with Ignite-UX revision C.6.7.79.


On 11.23,
swlist -l bundle -v HPUXBaseOS |grep mod_date

Regards,
Naveej

[Torsten.]

This is an old capture of my system when it was on 11.00 as an example:

print_manifest
...
The system was created December 28, 1999, 05:09:40 EST.
It was created with Ignite-UX revision B.2.7.92.
...


and a newer system:

The system was created April 04, 2007, 13:21:27 MESZ.
It was created with Ignite-UX revision C.7.0.212.

...



But if you trim the swagent log files, the "start date" may be later, so even this is not 100%.

[T G Manikandan]

#swlist -l fileset -a date|grep OS-Core

[System Unix]

Hello T G,

I tried all options mentioned in the good advices everyone gave. yet there are still some differenes between dated of swlist..., print_manifest, swagent.log.

it is quite confusing.... I tested around 15 server different OS version, and different Platforms, ( PA-RISC, I64).

I still dont know the most accurate method.

thank you,

Reuven

[Dennis Handly]

As Pete says you can look at the install_date:
# swlist -l bundle -a install_date | sort -n -k2,2
And look for something like:
HPUXBase64 200205301230.57
Or:
HPUXBaseOS 200509201331.02

[System Unix]

thanks, Dennis