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
Table 10 SD commands and patch tools (continued)
DescriptionSD-UX Command
This command is available on 11i v3 systems, and is available as a patch in
preceding HP-UX versions:
• PHCO_27780: 11.11 HP-UX Patch Tools
• PHCO_32220: 11.23 HP-UX Patch Tools
See cleanup(1M) for more information.
List patches installed on a system or in a depot. Options allow you to list patches
that are active, superseded, require Special Installation Instructions, or have
any Other Dependencies.
show_patches
This command is available on 11i v3 systems, and is available as a patch in
preceding HP-UX versions:
• PHCO_27780: 11.11 HP-UX Patch Tools
• PHCO_32220: 11.23 HP-UX Patch Tools
See show_patches(1) for more information.
Copies software from a software source to a depot or from one depot to another.
Can add products to an existing depot, replace products already on a depot,
or create a new depot.
swcopy
Use to install software. Also use to perform software configuration.swinstall
Use to list software elements, their attributes, and their organization. It lists both
installed software and software contained within a depot.
swlist
Use to change information in the installed products database or depot catalog
files.
swmodify
Use to register or unregister depots.swreg
Use to remove previously installed software or remove packaged software from
a depot.
swremove
Use to verify installed software or depot software for correctness and
completeness.
swverify
Compares SD-UX packaged software and active patches between two systems.sysdiff
This command is available on 11i v3 systems and is available as a patch for
11i v2:
• PHCO_32220: 11.23 HP-UX Patch Tools
See sysdiff(1) for more information.
Depot types
There are two types of SD-UX software depots:
• Directory depots
• Tape depots
Both are commonly used and provide the same basic functionality. However, each has its own
advantages for you to consider. This chapter focuses on using directory depots for patch
management. Less emphasis is placed on the use of tape depots.
Directory depots
Directory depots, also known as network depots, are more practical than tape depots for patch
management tasks. Directory depots exist as a directory structure, and the name of the depot's
root directory is the name of the depot.
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