Looking for way to test that patch install was successful within script.

[Dee_3]

I am looking to distribute several HP patches to multiple HP systems by tape. I have created a script that does the swinstall fine, but I would like to verify that the patch installed successfully without user interaction. I have tried grepping within /var/adm/sw/products for the patch number but I am looking for a best practice to carry forward as a template for future patch distibutions. I've tried using swlist and utilizing it's response, but that command is best written back to the screen. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thank you.

[Tom Geudens]

Hi,
This may be too simple a solution, but swverify would do that trick ...

Hope this helps,
Tom Geudens

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Terri

You also need to get the output from the patch installation script and examine that for errors like :-

"Insufficient disk space"
"Failed"
etc

As a swlist could report the patch installed, but there could be errors.

HTH Paula

[Eileen Millen · Accepted solution]

swlist -l fileset -a state | grep PHXX_XXXX
The patch should be listed as configured.
Eileen

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Terri:

You can use 'check_patches' and/or examine the state of individual patches with:

# swlist -a state -l

Regards!

...JRF...

[Dee_3]

Thanks for the suggestions. It looks like I'll be utilizing swlist since I'm covering several os levels (ie. 10.01, 10.20, 11.0). Terri.