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
# Bundle(s):
FEATURE11i B.11.31.1303.391a Feature Enablement Patches for HP-UX 11i v3, March 2013
HWEnable11i B.11.31.1303.391 Hardware Enablement Patches for HP-UX 11i v3, March 2013
OnlineDiag B.11.31.22.02 HPUX 11.31 Support Tools Bundle, March 2013
QPKAPPS B.11.31.1303.391 Applications Patches for HP-UX 11i v3, March 2013
MOZILLA 1.4.0.00.00 Mozilla 1.4 for HP-UX
T1471AA A.03.50.000 HP-UX Secure Shell
# Product(s) not contained in a Bundle:
PHCO_32146 1.0 libpam cumulative patch
PHCO_32475 1.0 ps(1) cumulative patch
PHCO_34195 1.0 kernel configuration commands patch
PHCO_35048 1.0 libsec cumulative patch
PHSS_35884 1.0 CDE Base Patch
The swlist command has many arguments. This chapter considers only the following arguments
and operands:
swlist [-d] [-l level] [-a attribute] [-s source] [software_selections] [-x
option=value] [@ target_selections]
• -d
Directs the swlist command to operate on a software depot rather than on software currently
installed on the system. When you use this argument, you must also use the @
target_selections argument to specify the depot.
• -l level
◦ Lists all software objects down to the specified level. The following is a partial list of
supported level values:
– depot: Lists software available from registered depots.
– bundle: Shows only bundles.
– product: Shows only products.
– patch: Shows all applied patches.
– fileset: Shows products and filesets.
– file: Shows products, filesets, files, and numbers (used in software licensing).
– category: Shows all categories of available patches for patches that have included
category objects in their definition.
◦ Specifies multiple values for level:
-l bundle -l product: Shows bundles and the products they contain.
• -a attribute
Specifies one or more attributes to display. For more information about attributes, see
“Patch-related attributes” (page 30).
• -s source
Specifies the software source to list. Use this argument as an alternative way to list a depot.
• software_selections
◦ Specifies software objects to be listed.
◦ Applies only if the level is bundle, product, fileset, file, or patch.
Which patches are on a system? 23