patches

[navin]

hello ,
i have received new hp server. how do i check
for the installed patches or patch bundles if that came with OS itself or not.
Thanks

[Sanjay_6 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Do a "swlist -l bundle" to check what bundles you have on the system.

you can also do a "swlist -l patch" to get a list of all the patches on the server.

Hope this helps.

regds

[Geoff Wild]

swlist is your friend.

swlist

To see individual patches -

swlist -l patch

Rgds...Geoff

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Navin,

Simplest way is with the swlist command.
Run the following:

swlist

And note the bundles and products.
BUT it may be that the "normal" bundles from HP are not what's being installed. They may be "custom" patch bundles.
So it may be prudent to run:

swlist -l product

or even:

swlist -l patch

to see *exactly* what patches are on there & check the ITRC to see what patch bundles first included them.

HTH,
Jeff

[Geoff Wild]

Oh - and you might have this script:

/usr/contrib/bin/check_patches

Rgds...Geoff

[navin]

i have checked and made sure about the patch bundles. But all of them were old revisions.
Can you please suggest me the link to find the new revision of patch bundles. Is that the same itrc site.
Thanks

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Navin:

While a simple :

# swlist

...will show bundles and products which is a good high-level view for looking at things like Quality Packs and SupportPlus bundles.

As far as individual patches are concerned, a(more) nicely formatted output including superceded and active patches can be obtained with:

# show_patches

Regards!

...JRF...

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Navin:

Currently available patch bundles may be found here:

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/releaseIndexPage.do?BC=patch.breadcrumb.main|

Regards!

...JRF...

[Arturo Galbiati]

Hi,
run a patch assessment:
http://www4.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/assessSystemsPage.do?BC=patch.breadcrumb.main%7C
give you a report about installed and needed patches.
HTH,
Art

[navin]

Thanks much .

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom navin,

What you want to see is the following:

Bundle for 11i or 11iv2
Gold Base
Gold Apps

Lots and lots of PH based patches.

If you are new to HP-UX you need to understand that patches are good. You need them, you love them.

SEP

[navin]

Hi , i have got patch bundle as bundlename.depot . Does the swinstall is the only tool to install the patchbundle.depot.

Thanks

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

Yes,

swinstall is the only tool to install HP-UX patches.

The product has to be build as a sd depot to be installed through swinstall. All hp softwares & depots are primarily built as sd depot.

Hope this helps.

regds

[navin]

Thank you