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
3 HP-UX patch overview
Patch-related concepts
Patch identification
HP assigns each HP-UX patch a unique identification or patch ID. Each HP-UX patch ID has the
form PHXX_#####, where:
• PH is an abbreviation for Patch HP-UX
• XX is replaced with one of the following values for the HP-UX area being patched:
◦ CO = command patches
◦ KL = kernel patches
◦ NE = network patches
◦ SS = patches related to all other subsystems
• ##### is replaced with a unique four- or five-digit number.
In general, the numeric portion of the patch ID is higher for more recently released patches.
HP-UX software structure
To understand some of the topics presented in this chapter, you should have a basic understanding
of the structure of HP-UX software. Patches are part of this software structure. You will also need
to use Software Distributor.
The following list provides an overview of the Software Distributor for HP-UX (SD-UX) software
objects that compose HP-UX software.
• Fileset
◦ A fileset is a grouping of one or more files contained in a product. A fileset groups a
subset of a product's files into a manageable unit.
◦ Filesets include the files and control scripts that make up a product. For more information
about control scripts, see the Software Distributor Administration Guide on the HP Business
Support Center website at http://www.hp.com/go/sd-docs.
◦ Filesets must exist within a product.
◦ Although a patch has a unique name, the names of the filesets contained in a patch match
the corresponding base filesets that they patch.
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