Patch Management User Guide for HP-UX 11.x Systems (5900-3011, April 2013)
Table Of Contents
- Patch Management User Guide for HP-UX 11.x Systems
- Contents
- 1 HP-UX patches and patch management
- 2 Quick start guide for patching HP-UX systems
- 3 HP-UX patch overview
- 4 Patch management overview
- Patch management life cycle
- HP service contracts
- Patch management and software change management strategies
- Establishing a software change management strategy
- Recommendations for software change management
- Consideration of HP patch rating
- Patch management and software depots
- Proactive patching strategy
- Reactive patching strategy
- Advanced topic: security patching strategy
- Advanced topic: scanning for security patches
- Testing the patches to be installed
- 5 What are standard HP-UX patch bundles?
- 6 Using the HP Support Center
- Obtaining an HPSC user account
- Useful pages on the HPSC
- Find individual patches
- Advanced topic: checking for special installation instructions
- Advanced topic: checking for all patch dependencies
- Standard patch bundles
- Custom patch bundles - run a patch assessment
- Support information digests
- Ask your peers in the forums
- Search knowledge base
- 7 Using software depots for patch management
- Common software distributor commands for patching
- Depot types
- Using depots
- Viewing depots
- Creating and adding to a directory depot
- Registering and unregistering directory depots
- Verifying directory depots
- Removing software from a directory depot
- Removing a directory depot
- Installing patches from a depot
- Custom patch bundles
- 8 Using HP-UX Software Assistant for patch management
- 9 Using Dynamic Root Disk for patch management
- 10 The Patch Assessment Tool
- 11 Support and other resources
- A Patch usage models
- Glossary
- Index
Please refer to “Acquiring and installing individual patches” (page 13) for more information.
NOTE: In addition to the information in this guide, you should review the release notes for the
product you are patching.
Standard HP-UX patch bundles
Table 2 shows the bundle names for the HP-UX 11i releases. See Chapter 5 (page 54) for more
information.
Table 2 Standard HP-UX patch bundle names
HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31)HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23)HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11)Patch Bundle Name
FEATURE11iFEATURE11iN/AFeature Enablement
HWEnable11iHWEnable11iHWEnable11iHardware Enablement
QPKAPPSQPKAPPSGOLDAPPS11iQuality Pack
QPKBASEQPKBASEGOLDBASE11i
N/ABUNDLE11iBUNDLE11iRequired
NOTE: Standard HP-UX patch bundles are cumulative. The latest version of a bundle includes
patches from all previous versions. Also, the standard patch bundles might have overlapping
content. This will not affect the patching process.
Acquiring and installing standard HP-UX patch bundles
The standard HP-UX patch bundles provide recommended sets of HP-UX system patches, which
you should use for proactive patching. See Chapter 5 (page 54) for information on specific standard
patch bundles.
Acquiring the bundles
To obtain standard patch bundles from the web, perform the following steps:
1. Log in to the target system.
2. Determine the operating system release by entering this command:
uname -r
Record the information. You will use this information in step 8.
3. Be sure that you are logged in as a user with write permissions to the download directory that
you plan to use.
These instructions assume you are using the /tmp directory.
4. Log in to the HPSC at http://www.hp.com/go/hpsc.
Be sure to log in to the appropriate site (Americas/Asia Pacific or European).
NOTE: You must link your active HP support agreement (that includes Software Updates) to
your HPSC profile before downloading patches. Use the My Profile link for instructions after
completing login at the HPSC website.
5. Select Patch database from the left navigation.
6. Select find standard patch bundles.
7. Select HP-UX patch bundles.
8. Select the most recent release name for the operating system (by release date).
10 Quick start guide for patching HP-UX systems