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
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Revision History
Table 1 Revision history
Publication DateSupported VersionsSupported Operating SystemsManufacturing Part Number
March 201311i v1, 11i v2, 11i v3HP-UX5900-3011
August 201011i v1, 11i v2, 11i v3HP-UX5900-1048
September 201011i v1, 11i v2, 11i v3HP-UXB3921–90030
September 200911i v1, 11i v2, 11i v3HP-UX5992–6582
March 200811.0, 11i v1, 11i v1.6, 11i
v2, 11i v3
HP-UX5992-4020
September 200711.0, 11i v1, 11i v1.6, 11i
v2, 11i v3
HP-UX5992-0674
February 200711.0, 11i v1, 11i v1.6, 11i
v2, 11i v3
HP-UX5991-6449
June 200611.0, 11i v1, 11i v1.6, 11i
v2
HP-UX5991-5309
March 200611.0, 11i v1, 11i v1.6, 11i
v2
HP-UX5991-4825
December 200511.0, 11i v1, 11i v1.6, 11i
v2
HP-UX5991-2722
May 200511.0, 11i v1, 11i v1.6, 11i
v2
HP-UX5991-1163
December 200411.0, 11i v1, 11i v1.6, 11i
v2
HP-UX5991-0686
September 200411.0, 11i v1, 11i v1.6, 11i
v2
HP-UX5990-6753a
April 200411.0, 11i v1, 11i v1.6, 11i
v2
HP-UX5990-6753