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
H
Hardware Enablement patch bundle see HWE
hardware_enablement category tag, 21
HPSC
forums, 64
getting access to patch download, 57
Knowledge Base, 64
patch database, 57, 58
Subscriber's Choice, 64
using, 57
using to get information, 39
webpages, 57
HWE, 54
see also standard HP-UX patch bundles
overview, 45
reboot on install, 12
use and release date table, 55
I
Ignite-UX
about, 83
documentation, 95
recovery tools, 42
individual patches see patches
installed SW state, 20
is_patch attribute, 31
is_reboot attribute, 31
M
manpages
DRD, 90
SWA, 88
manual dependencies
about, 33
checking for in the Patch Database, 61
listing with swlist, 24
using swlist to get readme information, 39
manual_dependencies category tag, 22
N
network depots see directory depots
noncritical patches, 37
noncritical warnings, 41
P
Patch Assessment Tool, 91
patch bundles, 54
see also standard HP-UX patch bundles
custom, 64
overview, 18
patch database
gaining access, 57
using, 58
patch dependencies see dependencies
patch depots see depots
patch management
importance of, 7
life cycle, 44
overview, 7, 44
quick start, 9
patch strategies
overview, 47
proactive, 50
reactive, 51
risk and downtime management, 47
security, 52
using depots, 68
using DRD, 89
using SWA, 88
patch_state attribute, 28, 31
patches, 7
see also patch bundles
see also patch management
acquiring, 8, 13
ancestors, 26
attributes, 30
category tags, 21
commitment, 35
concepts, 17
critical, 37
decoding patch names, 17
details, 38
getting, 58
getting information about a patch, 38
individual versus bundles, 9
installing, 15
noncritical, 37
overview, 17
ratings, 36
removing, 34
rollback, 34
security, 52
state, 20
status, 19
supersession, 27
testing, 53
text file, 38
using individual patches, 9
warnings, 40
patching, 50
see also patch strategies
importance of, 7
Quick Start Guide, 9
using DRD, 89
using SWA, 88
where to start, 8
prerequisites, 33
proactive patching strategy, 50
see also patch strategies
Q
QPK, 54
see also standard HP-UX patch bundles
and SWA, 88
overview, 45
reboot on install, 12
use and release date table, 55
Quality Pack patch bundle see QPK
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