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
• corrupt
SD-UX has encountered an unexpected condition during software installation checks.
• transient
When SD-UX moves software from one location to another, the software is in a transient state.
If an interruption occurs during the transfer, the state remains transient.
For more information about these states, see the Software Distributor Administration Guide on the
HP Business Support Center website at http://www.hp.com/go/sd-docs.
Use the following swlist command to view the state associated with patch patch_id:
swlist -l fileset -a state | grep patch_id
For more information about the swlist command,see “Which patches are on a system?” (page 22).
Category tags
Patches have categories, or category tags, associated with them to simplify the process of
determining the general purpose of a specific patch. A patch might have multiple categories
specified. This section provides a list of common patch categories. A patch always has the category
tag patch.
Although you can use category tags in conjunction with several SD-UX commands, including the
swinstall and swcopy commands, you should only use category tags with the swlist
command.
Because of the cumulative nature of patches, many category tags for a patch are inherited from
the patch's ancestors. Therefore, if patch A is created to deliver a critical fix, it will have a
critical tag, and all patches superseding it will also have a critical tag.
You can determine patch categories for a given patch in the following ways:
• Viewing the Category Tags field on the patch details page or inthe text file for the patch.
• Using the swlist command:
swlist -l product -a category_tag patch_id
This command also shows any category tags that have been manually added to the patch by a
user. For swlist examples that use category tags and for more information about the swlist
command, see “Which patches are on a system?” (page 22).
The following list provides a subset of patch-related categories:
• patch
This category tag is always present for patches because software objects with the is_patch
attribute set to true have the built-in, reserved category of patch. For more information
about attributes, see “Patch-related attributes” (page 30).
• hardware_enablement
A patch that provides support for new hardware.
• enhancement
A patch that provides an enhancement.
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