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
For more information
• See the DRD webpage at http://www.hp.com/go/drd for links to download the DRD product
free of charge and to access DRD documentation, including the release notes, administrators
guide, and white papers.
• The Patch Usage Models in Appendix A (page 97) provide information on where DRD fits
into the overall patch process.
• The DRD manpages describe the commands and provide examples. For HP-UX releases, the
manpages are available from the command line using the man drd command.
◦ drd(1m)
◦ drd-activate(1m)
◦ drd-clone(1m)
◦ drd-deactivate(1m)
◦ drd-mount(1m)
◦ drd_register_mirror(1m)
◦ drd-rehost(1m)
◦ drd-runcmd(1m)
◦ drd-status(1m)
◦ drd-sync(1m)
◦ drd-umount(1m)
◦ drd_unregister_mirror(1m)
◦ drd-unrehost(1m)
90 Using Dynamic Root Disk for patch management