Patch Management User Guide for HP-UX 11.x Systems (5900-3011, March 2013)

Quick Start Guide, 9
R
ratings, 36
reactive patching strategy, 51
see also patch strategies
readme attribute, 31, 39
recovery, 42
registered depots, 74
Required Patch Bundle see BUNDLE11i
resources
all related, 95
DRD, 90
SWA, 88
S
SD-UX see Software Distributor
security, 52
security patching strategy, 52
see also patch strategies
Selected Patch List Table, 60
serial access depots, 68
service contracts, 47
show_patches, 67
availability of command, 60
list Special Installation instructions, 46
show superseded patches, 28
Software Assistant see SWA
Software Depot, 56
software depots see depots
Software Distributor
commands, 66
description of SW object structure, 17
documentation, 95
software_spec attribute, 31
special installation instructions, 60
special_release category tag, 22
standard HP-UX patch bundles, 54
see also FEATURE11i
see also HWE
see also QPK
acquiring, 10
finding in the patch database, 64
installing, 11
key features, 54
names, 54
names and HP-UX versions, 10
obtaining, 56
overview, 54
release dates, 55
using, 9, 45, 55
state attribute, 20, 31
strategies see patch strategies
Subscriber's Choice, 64
superseded_by attribute, 32
supersedes attribute, 32
supersession
and patch_state attribute, 28
and the cleanup utility, 78
chain diagram, 30, 32
displaying information, 28
overview, 27
support agreement information in the HPSC, 57
SWA
documentation, 88
using, 88
swcopy, 67
category tags, 21
create a depot, 71
example, 72
manpage, 71
options, 71
patch dependencies, 73
registered depots, 74
swinstall, 67
autoselect_patches, 83
category tags, 21
example, 81
installing bundles, 12
installing patches, 15, 80
remote access, 69
rollback files, 34
swlist, 67
attributes, 32
bundles, 18, 83
category tags, 21, 38
corequisite and prerequisite filesets, 33
depot registration, 74
examples, 22, 70, 83
overview, 22
patch ancestors, 26
patch_id, 21
patch_state, 20, 28
readme attribute, 39
supersession information, 28
variations, 25
viewing depots, 69
swmodify, 67
patch commit, 35
swreg, 67
examples, 74
registered depots, 74
removing depot, 79
swremove, 67
examples, 77
options, 77
patch rollback, 34
registered depots, 74
swverify, 67
examples, 75
options, 75
overview, 75
sysdiff, 67
T
tape depots
creating directory depot from tape depot, 71
disadvantages, 67
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