ISEE SEC config & patching

[Kevin_31]

Hello experts. I'm looking into upgrading from predict to ISEE (small eterprise config) and have been reading the blurb, which says I need the Java patches mentioned at:

http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/java/infolibrary/patches.html.

I've asked a bloke at HP who's working on ISEE about a bundle of these patches, and he says they're working on getting them put on ipatch (epatch?). In the mean-time, does anyone have experience of which of these patches are needed, which ones are for which features? Is there a better way of getting the right patches for my box?

The machine's I'm looking into putting ISEE on are hpux11.11, built with either Jun2001 CDs and the March2002 Patch Bundle sets or March2002 OS & Patch Bundles. I've got N4000 boxes with PA-RISC processors, connected to our SAN (1Gb fibre cards, brocade switches and our XP48 with Galactica SureStore 2/20 DLT8s)

As a related but side-issue, I've read numerous posts on this forum about creating your own patch depot using:

swcopy -s /PHNE_21433.depot PHNE_21433 @ /var/spool/sw

(other variations include looping the command, etc.)

My problem with this is when I get it to work it's going into an interactive swcopy session where I have to select the individual patch, separately for each one provided in my command parameters. This must be wrong. Can you tell me what I'm missing

Any advice, lessons learned would be appreciated (points forthcoming)

cheers,
Kevin

[Pete Randall]

Kevin,

No info on what patches you need, but for your depot question, you need to modify your swcopy command a little:
swcopy -s ${PWD}/patchname \* @ /var/spool/sw
Or, to loop it, do:
for i in PH*.depot
do
swcopy -s ${PWD}/$i \* @ /var/spool/sw
done

Hope this helps,
Pete

[Cheryl Griffin]

Here's how to manage several patches that you want to swcopy at once.

Download them all to one directory and unpack them all with:
# cd /tmp
# for i in PH*
> do
> sh $i
> done
#

Then swcopy all of them into a depot at once with:
# mkdir /tmp/patch_depot
# for i in PH*.depot
> do
> swcopy -s ${PWD}/$i \* @ /tmp/patch_depot
> done
#

ISEE is supposed to handle patches differently than using the normal patch delivery method, meaning ISEE will also deliver any needed patches. I am doubling checking for patch requirements and will post back what I find.

ISEE's Home:
http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=U2512AA


Cheers,
Cheryl

[Stefan Farrelly]

The full syntax for swcopy to a depot without going into interactive mode is;

swcopy -s @
eg.
swcopy -s /tmp/PHxx.depot \* @ /var/spool/sw
The \* means copy everything.

We're running ISEE on many 11.0 servers, it seems to work fine. We didnt need to load any patches for it. Were running Mar2002 bundles. We can now use a browser and see calls being logged and closed by HP for hardware events. Looks good so far although because java is involved its hung a couple of times and had to be killed off and restarted.

[Cheryl Griffin · Accepted solution]

Kevin,
I searched the internal Knowledge Base (which would show known issues if any, patches, etc.), the installation instructions (which would show requirements) and the patch catalog and found nothing for ISEE.

June 01 or March 02 patch bundles should be fine for your installation.

Cheryl