Procedure to upgrade the system from 11.23 to 11.31

[GnanaShekar]

Hi,

I have a couple of HP 11.23 Itanium servers that need to be upgraded to 11.31.
I am new to HP Unix.
Please suggest in brief the procedure to upgrade the system from 11.23 to 11.31.
I have the HP 11.31 Mission Critical Operating Environment DVD's with me.

Thanks & Regards,

[Torsten. · Accepted solution]

Hi,

read the documentation and follow the instructions:

http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-6460/index.html

It's all in there.

[GnanaShekar]

Hi,

It seems HPUX FOE (Foundation Operating Environment) is installed on my server.

bash-3.00# /usr/sbin/swlist -l bundle HPUX11i-*
# Initializing...
# Contacting target "bgpcia1"...
#
# Target: bgpcia1:/
#

HPUX11i-OE B.11.23.0403 HP-UX Foundation Operating Environment Component

As I said earlier I have MCOE (Mission Critical Operating Environment) DVD's for HPUX 11iv3.

Can I upgrade HPUX11iv2 FOE to HPUX11iv3 MCOE?

Please suggest,
Thanks & Regards,

[Ivan Krastev]

Yes, you can upgrade it.

MCOE contains FOE as part of Enterprise OE.

See table for details - http://docs.hp.com/en/5991-6460/ch01s02.html


regards,
ivan

[GnanaShekar]

Hi,

I have upgraded the system firmware to 04.21 (04.10 was the prerequisite for 11iv3).

Later I mounted the DVD and ran the update-ux command to update the OS.

However, I am getting error. Please suggest.

# /usr/sbin/update-ux -s /dvdrom HPUX11i-OE
ioscan: Can't open bgpcia1:/dvdrom: No such file or directory


======= Thu Apr 19 17:29:19 IST 2007 BEGIN update-ux


NOTE: Progress of the software installation can be monitored more closely
by opening another window and entering the command:
'tail -f /var/adm/sw/swagent.log'
NOTE: All output that scrolls by on the screen is logged to
'/var/adm/sw/update-ux.log'
ioscan: Can't open bgpcia1:/dvdrom: No such file or directory
* Obtaining some information from the source depot.
* Copying an SD agent from the source depot
ioscan: Can't open bgpcia1:/dvdrom: No such file or directory
* Installing update-ux from the source depot
Current update-ux version: 11.11.69
Source depot update-ux version: 11.31.17
* Running the new version of update-ux
* Installing the SW-GETTOOLS product
* Configuring the SW-GETTOOLS product
* Installing the SD filesets to be used for the update
/var/adm/sw/tmp/update-ux/update-ux.new[34]: 3769 Killed
ERROR: The command: '/var/adm/sw/tmp/update-ux/swinstall -x reinstall=true
-x autoselect_dependencies=false -x enforce_dependencies=false -x
mount_all_filesystems=false -x defer_configure=true -s /dvdrom
Update-UX.SD-AGENT,fr=B.11.22,fa=HP-UX_B.11.22_IA
Update-UX.SD-CMDS,fr=B.11.22,fa=HP-UX_B.11.22_IA' failed. Output
follows:
/usr/lib/hpux32/dld.so: Unsatisfied code symbol 'uname{20040821}' in load module '/var/adm/sw/tmp/update-ux/swinstall'.
For more information, see /var/adm/sw/swagent.log
/var/adm/sw/tmp/update-ux/update-ux.new[89]: /var/adm/sw/swagent.log: Cannot find or open the file.
NOTE: One or more errors encountered. Take appropriate corrective action
and re-run update-ux to complete the update.

======= Thu Apr 19 17:31:09 IST 2007 END update-ux

Thanks & Regards,

[GnanaShekar]

Hi,

Thanks a lot.
I could finally upgrade the HPUX 11iv2 to 11iv3.

I had to update the firmware of my rx4640 .

I got an error when I ran the "update-ux -s /dvdrom HPUX11i-OE" command.

This was resolved after upgrading the update-ux package from the 11iv3 dvd by using the command "swinstall -s /dvdrom Update-UX"

All of these are listed in the document at the URL you provided me earlier.

Thanks & regards,
-Gnana-