HP Smart Update Best Practices Planning Guide

1. Click the blue triangle to the left of the Hot Fix CA to expand the list of associated
downloadable components.
2. Click the Download button to download the component to a repository of your choice.
3. Deploy it using HP SUM.
These documented Hot Fixes are supported as part of the SPP throughout the SPP support period.
To obtain Hot Fixes for earlier SPPs, go to the SPP Release Archive page, available from the SPP
Download page. Find the entry for the SPP and select the link to the CA page for that SPP.
Regularly updated targets
Updating your servers is easier if you regularly update them using update packages. Review the
hot fixes to be sure that none of them will prevent you from performing server updates. For ProLiant
systems, make sure there are no outstanding hot fixes that might address a problem you are
experiencing. Integrity bundles include all updates, so no updates are released outside of a bundle.
Required intermediate updates
For servers and target devices that might not have been recently updated, it is not always possible
to install the latest update package. Sometimes you have to install updates that satisfy dependencies
in the latest version. An example of this is where the OA firmware is older than version 2.32. In
this case, it is necessary to update to version 2.32 before moving to a higher version.
Another possibility is that the update of a given piece of hardware requires another piece of
hardware to be updated first. An example of this is where an update to VCt version 3.00 or later
first requires the user to update the OA firmware to version 3.00 or later.
For more information about the intermediate updates, see “Intermediate updates required tables”
(page 33).
14 Baseline and update regularity