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
PATCH_ASSESSMENT_05042005. Note that 05042005 represents the date on which the patch
assessment was performed.
1. List the patches in the temporary depot /my_depots/temporary_depot/, which contains
the patches identified by the patch assessment.
For example:
$ swlist -d @ /my_depots/temporary_depot/
# Initializing...
# Contacting target "my_system"...
# Target: my_system:/my_depots/temporary_depot/
#
# No Bundle(s) on my_system:/my_depots/temporary_depot/
# Product(s):
#
PHCO_24587 1.0 psrset(1M) man page patch
PHCO_25130 1.0 vPar manpage cumulative patch
PHCO_28175 1.0 vPar commands man pages patch
PHCO_28830 1.0 security(4) man page cumulative patch
2. Create a bundle containing these four patches. The following command creates a bundle in
the temporary depot named PATCH_ASSESSMENT_05042005 with a title of “May 04,
2005: HP-UX 11.11 Patch Assessment Patches” and a revision of 1.0.
$ make_bundles -B \
-n PATCH_ASSESSMENT_05042005 \
-t "May 04, 2005: HP-UX 11.11 Patch Assessment Patches" \
-r 1.0 \
/my_depots/temporary_depot/
3. List the contents of the temporary depot. Note the presence of the newly created bundle.
$ swlist -d @ /my_depots/temporary_depot/
# Initializing...
# Contacting target "my_system"...
# Target: my_system:/my_depots/temporary_depot/
#
# Bundle(s):
#
PATCH_ASSESSMENT_05042005 1.0 May 04, 2005:
HP-UX 11.11 Patch Assessment Patches
4. Preview copying the bundle (using the -p argument) from the temporary depot to the periodic
depot. Review the output generated by this command.
$ swcopy -p -s my_system:/my_depots/temporary_depot/ PATCH_ASSESSMENT_05042005 \
@ my_system:/my_depots/periodic_depot/
======= 05/04/05 14:25:00 MDT BEGIN swcopy SESSION (non-interactive)
(jobid=my_system-1132)
* Session started for user "some_user@my_system".
* Beginning Selection
* "my_system:/my_depots/periodic_depot/": This target does not exist
and will be created.
* Source connection succeeded for "my_system:/my_depots/temporary_depot/".
* Source: my_system:/my_depots/temporary_depot/
* Targets: my_system:/my_depots/periodic_depot/
* Software selections:
PATCH_ASSESSMENT_05042005,r=1.0,a=HP-UX_B.11.11_32/64
PHCO_24587.ADMN-ENG-A-MAN,r=1.0,a=HP-UX_B.11.11_32/64,v=HP,
fr=1.0,fa=HP-UX_B.11.11_32/64
PHCO_25130.CORE-ENG-A-MAN,r=1.0,a=HP-UX_B.11.11_32/64,v=HP,
fr=1.0,fa=HP-UX_B.11.11_32/64
PHCO_28175.CORE-ENG-A-MAN,r=1.0,a=HP-UX_B.11.11_32/64,v=HP,
fr=1.0,fa=HP-UX_B.11.11_32/64
PHCO_28830.ADMN-ENG-A-MAN,r=1.0,a=HP-UX_B.11.11_32/64,v=HP,
Custom patch bundles 85