Patch comparision.

[Joe_78]

Hi Team:

We have development and production environment running
11.0 on N-class. Usually the patches are in sync.

Development:
Cold installed 11.0
Installed Ace Bundle from CDROM

Production:
Cold Install 11.0
Quality Pack.

This happened 4 months ago and i found that Production
environment had more patches than development.So since
Quality pack was not installed in Development, i
installed it but we seem to have more Patches than
Production. Following are my questions??
1. Which is desirable after cold install - Quality
pack OR Ace Bundle?
2. Given this state how do i keep the machines in
sync(It is IMPORTANT 'coz we test all apps on
development) for patches.
Also when i do ..
swlist -a state -l fileset on the PRODUCTION all the
filesets are in configured state. The same command in
DEVELOPMENT shows some patches in installed state.

Please Advise.

Thanks
Joe.

[harry d brown jr]

Joe,

Usually differences in patches, especially between a development machine and a production machine can be attributed to differences in hardware and software (like compilers) between the two. Taking those two things into consideration, you should re-review your differences and elimiante those attributed to the "differences", which should result in almost equal "patches".

1. Which is desirable after cold install - Quality
pack OR Ace Bundle?

*** I usually do both.

2. Given this state how do i keep the machines in sync (It is IMPORTANT 'coz we test all apps on development) for patches.

*** see the "explaination"


Also when i do ..
swlist -a state -l fileset on the PRODUCTION all the
filesets are in configured state. The same command in
DEVELOPMENT shows some patches in installed state.

*** see the "explaination"


live free or die
harry

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Joe,

I normally try to keep the patches on two identical server in sync by doing the cpm analysis for the both the boxes at the same time. Download the patches for both the systems, update the test environment and then after a resonable period of time, update the production server.

http://us-support3.external.hp.com/wps/bin/doc.pl/sid=cf3f121411ec158ec7

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Alberto Ochoa]

Hi Joe,

Regarding patches fileset state, here are a couple of link to check.
Hope they can be useful to you.

http://us-support3.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=1c86a4531daea9f30a/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000058669777

http://us-support.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=809ec2c610b043ca81/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000053972879

[Giri Sekar. · Accepted solution]

Hi:

Do this..

swlist -l bundle

and you should be able to see all the Patch bundles that you put in on both the boxes.By comparing you will find the difference.

Also since you said you have not installed the quality bundle(which are the general patches) you may see this behavior.

Now to keep the patches in sync..

Very difficult... unless you have the hardware exactly same including NIC cards etc..and also to install from the same media on all the boxes..

To configure the installed patches:
It may show like that sometimes if those patches are supercedes!!!
run swmodify as mentioned in the link given by
Alberto.

[Joe_78]

Hi Giri:

I installed the quality pack and ran swmodify against the other and seem to be back in business. Thanks much all of you guys.