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
Quick Start Guide, 9
R
ratings, 36
reactive patching strategy, 51
see also patch strategies
readme attribute, 31, 39
recovery, 42
registered depots, 74
Required Patch Bundle see BUNDLE11i
resources
all related, 95
DRD, 90
SWA, 88
S
SD-UX see Software Distributor
security, 52
security patching strategy, 52
see also patch strategies
Selected Patch List Table, 60
serial access depots, 68
service contracts, 47
show_patches, 67
availability of command, 60
list Special Installation instructions, 46
show superseded patches, 28
Software Assistant see SWA
Software Depot, 56
software depots see depots
Software Distributor
commands, 66
description of SW object structure, 17
documentation, 95
software_spec attribute, 31
special installation instructions, 60
special_release category tag, 22
standard HP-UX patch bundles, 54
see also FEATURE11i
see also HWE
see also QPK
acquiring, 10
finding in the patch database, 64
installing, 11
key features, 54
names, 54
names and HP-UX versions, 10
obtaining, 56
overview, 54
release dates, 55
using, 9, 45, 55
state attribute, 20, 31
strategies see patch strategies
Subscriber's Choice, 64
superseded_by attribute, 32
supersedes attribute, 32
supersession
and patch_state attribute, 28
and the cleanup utility, 78
chain diagram, 30, 32
displaying information, 28
overview, 27
support agreement information in the HPSC, 57
SWA
documentation, 88
using, 88
swcopy, 67
category tags, 21
create a depot, 71
example, 72
manpage, 71
options, 71
patch dependencies, 73
registered depots, 74
swinstall, 67
autoselect_patches, 83
category tags, 21
example, 81
installing bundles, 12
installing patches, 15, 80
remote access, 69
rollback files, 34
swlist, 67
attributes, 32
bundles, 18, 83
category tags, 21, 38
corequisite and prerequisite filesets, 33
depot registration, 74
examples, 22, 70, 83
overview, 22
patch ancestors, 26
patch_id, 21
patch_state, 20, 28
readme attribute, 39
supersession information, 28
variations, 25
viewing depots, 69
swmodify, 67
patch commit, 35
swreg, 67
examples, 74
registered depots, 74
removing depot, 79
swremove, 67
examples, 77
options, 77
patch rollback, 34
registered depots, 74
swverify, 67
examples, 75
options, 75
overview, 75
sysdiff, 67
T
tape depots
creating directory depot from tape depot, 71
disadvantages, 67
114 Index