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

Critical patches have a critical category tag. The category tags (and swlist command used
to acquire the category tags) for patch PHSS_30011 are shown in the following screen. See
“Category tags” (page 21) for more information.
$ swlist -l product -a category_tag PHSS_30011
# Initializing...
# Contacting target "some_system"...
#
# Target: some_system:/
# PHSS_30011 patch defect_repair general_release critical
enhancement corruption manual_dependencies
Finding information for a specific patch
The best place to obtain information about a specific patch is the patch's patch details page on
the HPSC.
Patch documentation
All patches have a patch details page, a patch text file, and readme information. The patch details
page should be your first choice for obtaining information because it contains the most up-to-date
information available. This is not always true for the patch text file or the patch readme.
You can find the documentation at the following resources:
• See Chapter 6: “Using the HP Support Center” (page 57). For the patch details page, go to
the HPSC website at http://www.hp.com/go/hpsc.
• The patch text file will be in the downloaded file after you download a patch from the HPSC.
See Chapter 6: “Using the HP Support Center” (page 57).
• The patch readme will be on the system after you install the patch.
The patch details page and the patch text file contain the same fields and provide detailed
information about a patch. Table 4: “Subset of fields in patch text file and patch details page ”
(page 38) shows a subset of these fields.
Table 4 Subset of fields in patch text file and patch details page
DescriptionField
The patch ID. See “Patch identification” (page 17) for more information about
the format of patch IDs.
Patch Name
A terse description of the patch.Patch Description
The date the patch was created.Creation Date
The date the patch was released for general distribution.Post Date
If the patch has an associated warning, this field shows the date the warning
was issued and provides information about the warning. This field is present
Warning
only if the patch has an associated warning. For more information, see “Patch
warnings” (page 40).
The hardware platforms and HP-UX OS releases where you can install the
patch.
Hardware Platforms - OS Releases
A listing of the filesets that compose this patch.Filesets
This is set to Y if the installation of this patch requires a reboot.Automatic Reboot?
The support status of the patch. For more information, see “Patch status”
(page 19).
Status
If this patch is considered critical, or if it supersedes a critical patch, additional
information is provided. For more information, see “Critical and noncritical
patches” (page 37).
Critical
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