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[Jason_93]

Let me preface this with the statement, I am an idiot when it comes to hp ux. I have inherited a HP9000 10.20 800 system. It is my belief that it is seriously lacking in patches. Is there an application that I can run to show me what patch level the system is at compared to what is currently available?

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Yes... You can login in to ITRC home page and then on the right hand side click on maintenance and Support and follow the instruction under Custom Patch Manager for customized patch bundles.

The script here run patch analysis and install all the patches required on the server

-USA..

[Helen French]

You can check the current patch level with:

# swlist
# man swlist

Check the date specified with the listing.

Use HP's custom patch manager to compare this with the latest patches available:

http://us-support3.external.hp.com/wps/bin/doc.pl/sid=0fed06251acd540cd6

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Jason,

If I were you, I would do a 'swlist'. If you don't see 'General Release Patches for HP-UX Servers (December 2001)' then I would install the Dec. 2001 General Release Patch Set using swinstall followed by the Hardware Enablement and Critical Patches for Dec. 2001. That will bring you up to date.

[Martin Johnson]

Make sure you backup your system before installing the patches! If it has been a while since the last patch update, you may be installing a large number of patches. It has been my experience that the larger the number of patches install, the greater the chance of something going wrong. Backing out a large number of patches with swremove usually doesn't work (the backout order does not match the install order which causes problems with multiple patched files). The only safe solution for the backout is to restore from backup.

Marty

[Sanjay_6 · Accepted solution]

Hi Jason,

You can try CPM. Try this link below. Once you do the analysis using the patch list created on your system, it will tell you what are the patches on your system and what is the latest patch if any, hp recommended patches etc. Have a look at the fay in the link below for more info,

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/wps/bin/doc.pl/sid=b6963be602e436806c

Hope this helps.

Regds