Ignite-UX patch bundles

[Bill Kimbell]

I would like to push various patch bundles out to different workstations on the network. I have gone through the steps of creating and verifying the bundles but I'm not clear as to the specific steps to push that bundle out to a specific box on the network. There is quite a bit of info on new installs and recovery procedures but these machines already have OS's, they only need patches.
Thanks.
Bill

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

My understanding is that you can not do what you want to do. You can install new patch bundles as a post installation task after installing the OS on a box. I know of no way of just pushing out new patches to a box via Ignite without reinstalling the OS.

A product you might want to take a look at, although according to the web page it is being, or already has been, discontinued and the web page does not mention the replacement product, is Openview Software Distributor. I think this will do what you require.

http://openview.hp.com/products/swdist/index.asp

[Bill Kimbell]

Hi Patrick,
I just tried telnetting to the client and performing a swinstall -s host:depot_location depot name and that works fine. I was under the impression that Ignite also provided that functionality, oh well!
Is HP doing away with SD altogether or just within OpenView support?
Thanks.

[Michael Roberts_3]

Without Software Distributor "push" ability (one of the additional functionality in the old OpenView dist.) You have to contact the clients and have them pull. For example:

depot=/var/tmp/depot
server=me.my.com
clients="cl1 cl2"
for i in ${clients}
{
remsh ${i} "/usr/sbin/swinstall -s${server}:${depot} \*"
}