Patch Management User Guide for HP-UX 11.x Systems (762796-001, March 2014)
Table Of Contents
- Patch Management User Guide for HP-UX 11.x Systems
- Contents
- 1 HP secure development lifecycle
- 2 HP-UX patches and patch management
- 3 Quick start guide for patching HP-UX systems
- 4 HP-UX patch overview
- 5 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
- 6 What are standard HP-UX patch bundles?
- 7 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
- 8 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
- 9 Using HP-UX Software Assistant for patch management
- 10 Using Dynamic Root Disk for patch management
- 11 The Patch Assessment Tool
- 12 Support and other resources
- 13 Documentation Feedback
- A Patch usage models
- Glossary
- Index
3 Quick start guide for patching HP-UX systems
This quick start guide is for system administrators who have immediate patching needs. It is a
limited solution to general patching issues. If you need in-depth information about patching, review
the rest of this document and the other patch-related resources in Section : “Related information”
(page 95).
NOTE: You will require root user privileges to complete these procedures.
Overview
This quick start guides you through basic patch management tasks and provides minimal detail:
• “Before you begin” (page 10)
Before you acquire and install the patch bundles or individual patches, you should consider
some patch-related questions. See “Should you use standard HP-UX patch bundles?” (page 10)
and “Should you use individual patches?” (page 10).
• “Acquiring and installing standard HP-UX patch bundles” (page 11)
When initially patching a system, it is important to establish a stable baseline of patches. This
section shows you how to acquire and install the standard HP-UX patch bundles. See Chapter 6
(page 55) for more information.
• “Acquiring and installing individual patches” (page 14)
In addition to the standard HP-UX patch bundles, you might need to install individual patches.
For example, you might want more recent patches found on the HP Support Center (HPSC)
website than those contained in a standard HP-UX patch bundle on media. You might also
want the latest security patches.
For additional information, visit the HPSC website at http://www.hp.com/go/hpsc.
Before you begin
The following sections contain questions that you should review before you begin the quick start
procedures.
Should you use standard HP-UX patch bundles?
Before you acquire and install standard HP-UX patch bundles, consider the following questions:
• Is this a new system?
• Do you want to establish a baseline of patches?
• Do you want to update the existing baseline of patches?
• Are you adding new hardware to the system?
If you answer yes to any of these questions, then you should continue with “Acquiring and installing
standard HP-UX patch bundles” (page 11).
HP recommends using the HP-UX Quality Pack Patch bundle for the proactive maintenance of all
HP-UX systems. For a description of the Quality Pack Patch bundle and all other standard HP-UX
patch bundles, see “Standard HP-UX patch bundles” (page 11) .
Should you use individual patches?
HP recommends using individual patches when performing reactive patching tasks. For example,
when a system is experiencing a problem, you should apply an individual patch or the smallest
set of patches to fix the problem, and not an entire patch bundle.
10 Quick start guide for patching HP-UX systems