Patch level check

[dragana s-v]

How to check current version of recommanded patches on an HP-UX system?

Is there a tool(script) available, something similar to "y2koscheck" or similar to "showver" for SUN Solaris?

Regards,
Dragana

[Santosh Nair_1]

You should be able to run swlist -l product |grep PH. This will list all the patches on the machine. Also, you can check for patch bundles by running swlist |grep XSW.

Hope this helps.

-Santosh

[Sachin Patel · Accepted solution]

Hi Dragana,
You are looking for "custome patch Manager"

Form HP site:

custom patch manager

Custom Patch Manager is a tool for configuration based patching of systems. You must download and run a collect script to gather information about what patches and filesets are installed on your target system or depot.

After you have uploaded the resulting configuration file to CPM, you will be able to run a Patch Analysis for that system or depot. Custom Patch Manager generates a Candidate Patch List from which you may choose the patches you would like to install.

Custom Patch Manager will give you the opportunity to run an analysis to check for conflicts between the patches in your Selected Patch List as well as those currently installed on you system.

When you are satisfied with you patch list, you can download a Patch Package to your system.

go to http://us-support.external.hp.com/
Then Click on maintenance / support
Then click on customized patch bundles (custom patch manager)

Sachin

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

The patch version will always be 1.0. HP comes out with a new patch (with a new patch name ) if there is a recall or the patch is superceded.

To check wether a particualr patch is installed on your system do
swlist -l product |grep PATCH_NAME

this will tell you wether the patch is loded on the system on not.

If you want to find the state of a patch, use
swlist -l patch |grep PATCH_NAME

hope this helps.

thanks

[dragana s-v]

Thanks All,

What I am looking for is a tool that will compare my current patches against the latest available patch revision, tell me which patches are obsolete and which patches are replacing them.

The tool would probably have it's own revision, matching Support Plus release.

We had "y2koscheck" available for Y2K patches. Also, I know there is some utility for Security patches.

Will Custom Patch Manager do this for me?
Regards,
Dragana

[Sanjay_6]

Hi ,

you can do that using custom patch manager.

follow this thread.

http://us-support.external.hp.com/wps/bin/doc.pl/sid=26d786690c8265392c

hope this helps.

thanks

[Sachin Patel]

Hi Dragana,
Yes it will do it excetly what you want. But it is not fee.

Sachin