HP-UX Compressed Dump Release Notes

System Requirements and Installation Instructions

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HP-UX Compressed Dump product includes the following components:

• Compressed Dump kernel library

• enhancement kernel patches to support the Compressed Dump product

• updated man pages for crashconf, crashutil, savecrash and libcrash

• enhanced crashconf, crashutil, savecrash and libcrash

Installing from Software Depot

1. Go to the following web site:

http://software.hp.com

2. Select Enhancement Releases.

3. Select HP-UX Software Pack.

4. Locate and select the Compressed Dump link.

5. Select Installation at the bottom of the page, and follow the instructions to install

Compressed Dump.

Removing Compressed Dump

To remove the Compressed Dump product, use the swremove command:

# swremove -x autoreboot=true CompressedDump

This command removes the product and reboots the system, leaving the bundle wrapper and

the kernel patches on the system. The kernel patches included with the product bundle are

recommended for the system. Therefore, HP advises not to remove them.

For more information on managing patches on your system, see HP-UX Patch Management,

part number 5967-3578. This document is available on the Support Plus media as well as on

the Hewlett-Packard documentation web site

(http://docs.hp.com.com/hpux/pdf/5967-3578.pdf).