Updating hp-ux 11

[Louis McCurry]

Forgive me for this very basic question but I am band new to hp-ux and need advice.

I have a hp-ux 11 system that only has two Y2K patches applied. Due to a required upgrade of Oracle 8.0.5 to 8.1.6 I need to apply the latest OS patches first. I have downloaded the Sept01 .depot file. I have read the docs but come away more confused.

Can someone point me to a document that will hold me by the hand or offer other advice to get this done.?

Thanks

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

There are the ones basically that have to be done if I remember correctly

1. mwa stop
2. /usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -d
3. /usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -kill
4. kill pid_of_snmpd
5. kill pid of cm_snmpd

Then install the patches using "swinstall"

-Sri

[Santosh Nair_1 · Accepted solution]

Also, I would suggest installing the latest SD patch by itself first before installing the rest of the patches in the depot and then restoping swagentd, running swconfig and then restarting swagentd:

swinstall -s
/sbin/init.d/swagentd stop (you may need to kill swagentd
/sbin/init.d/swconfig start
/sbin/rc2.d/S870swagentd start

Then, finally, install the remaining patches in the depot...doing a manage patch selection from the action menu item in swinstall:

swinstall -s

select

after a few minutes, swinstall should come back, at which point you can install the selected patche:

select

after the analysis phase, you can install the patch and finally reboot...all of which you will be prompted to do.

Hope this helps.

-Santosh

[Louis McCurry]

Can this be done through a telnet session as su or do you have to be at the console logged in as root?

Thanks

[Christopher McCray_1]

Both work equally well, but you should be at the console when the system starts to come up in case you have to intervene(revert to old kernel, etc)

Good luck
Chris

[linuxfan]

Hi Louis,

You already have the procedure for installing the patchset, but if you want to find out more about patch management on HP-UX, this guide would be useful
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/pdf/5967-3578.pdf

Also if i were you i would also check out the SD-UX guide
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/pdf/B2355-90154.pdf

Since you are new to HP, http://docs.hp.com has lots of information, Ofcourse these forums are a great resource too.

-Regards
Ramesh

[Santosh Nair_1]

You can do this from the console, or from a telnet
session or even from an X windows session.

-Santosh