HP-UX 11i June 2004 Release Notes

Installation
set_parms Enhanced
Chapter 8
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Step 3. In the “Filter...” text field, add the desired filters to the *.* . (For example, to select only
the critical patches, the Filter... field would appear as *.*,c=critical. Likewise, to
install all the patches that are critical OR hardware_enablement, the Filter...field
should appear as *.*,c=critical|hardware_enablement.)
Step 4. Select OK.
Clicking the Filter... button will display a list of the predefined category tags already
formatted for use in the Filter... field. Selecting the desired category tag from this list
and then selecting OK will add that, and only that, category tag to the Filter... field.
(Also shown under the Filter... field is the list of all category tags found in the source
depot.)
The list of patches that were selected for install can then be viewed by double-clicking on
the bundle in the main SD-UX window. You can then deselect any patches that you may
not want to install. (Be careful not to break any documented patch dependencies.)
Continue with the install (analysis) as with any other patch installation.
For more complete information on 11i Interactive Patch Management, refer to the
manual Software Distributor Administration Guide, part no. B2355-90699.
Documentation
The Software Distributor Administration Guide has been extensively updated for
accuracy and completeness (including many new examples) for HP-UX 11i and is
available on the HP-UX Instant Information CD and on the http://docs.hp.com Web
site. Another excellent source of information on SD-UX is the SD-UX Web site:
http://software.hp.com/SD_AT_HP/
set_parms Enhanced
new at 11i
original release
The set_parms program is a GUI/TUI interface that normally runs only the first time
any HP-UX system is booted after installation if hostname/networking information has
not been set up in advance.
For HP-UX 11i, set_parms has been enhanced to allow you to select which networking
interface to set up. In prior releases, set_parms would pick the lowest numbered LAN
interface to configure in the absence of any other information. This was often the wrong
choice, especially when FDDI interfaces or other optional interfaces were present on the
system, forcing users into extra steps to configure the system properly.
This change will allow you to pick the LAN interface to be configured in both the case of
enabling DHCP (the user picks just after the decision to use DHCP) and in the normal
mainline case of setting an IP address (the user picks the interface just before setting the
IP address). With this change, no additional configuration steps are immediately needed
to get the system operational.
This change does not fix any previous defects.