what is the patch level on the system?

[Hanry Zhou]

We are running 11.0 system, and we have patched our systems periodically, but what commands I can use to find out what patch level currently running on the system?

Thanks,

[Slawomir Gora]

Hi,

for standard bundles:

swlist | grep QPK
swlist | grep HWE

for single patches swlist -l product

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Hanry,

Patch levels are determined based on what release of patches are there on the system. If you installed HP supplied bundles, check

swlist |grep -i qpk

For ex.,

QPK1100 B.11.00.60.4 Quality Pack for HP-UX 11.00, March 2003

The above means, that system is at March 2003 level.

However, some of the practices are to install Custom Patch bundles. In that case depending on the policy you used in generating the bundle, you have to determine the patch level.

Some SAs themselves customize the patches to be installed on their system. For ex., March 2004 bundles and any security patches release d later. That can be called March 2004 level though there are few more latest patches.

-Sri

[Cheryl Griffin]

bundle version, patch version, bundle version:
# swlist | egrep -i -e "gold|qpk|hwe|xsw|patches"

[Sundar_7]

If you have PHCO_22044 installed in the system, then you can use the show_patches command to find out the list of patches installed in the system

# /usr/contrib/bin/show_patches

[Michael Tully]

Here is another suggestion:

# swlist -a revision | egrep -i "qpk|hwe"
HWE1100 B.11.00.0303.4
QPK1100 B.11.00.60.4

The numbers in the far column represent the months. (0303.4) and (60.4) are actually March 2003. How some of these numbers are derived is anyones guess. They used to be referred to as "DART" numbers.