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

Index
A
Access Control Lists, 76
advanced topics
Access Control Lists, 76
checking for all patch dependencies, 62
corequisite and prerequisite filesets, 34
Dynamic Root Disk, 13
HP-UX Software Assistant, 52, 74
patch ancestors, 27
patch cleanup utility, 36
patch warnings, 43
readme attribute, 40
rollback files, 35
scanning for security patches, 54
security patching strategy, 53
special installation instructions, 61
supersession information, 29
supersession, patch_state attribute, 29
ancestor attribute, 32
ancestors, 27
attributes related to patches, 31
autoselect_patches
swcopy, 74
swinstall, 84
B
backup, 43
BUNDLE11i, 55
see also standard HP-UX patch bundles
use and release date table, 56
bundles, 55 see patch bundles
see also standard HP-UX patch bundles
C
care pack information in the HPSC, 58
category tags, 22
category_tag attribute, 32
check_patches, 67
cleanup, 67
depot example, 79
example of preview mode, 36
configured SW state, 21
corequisites, 34
corrupt SW state, 22
critical category tag, 23
critical patches, 38
critical warnings, 42
custom patch bundles, 84
Custom Patch Manager, 65
D
Data Protector, 43
dependencies, 34
see also manual dependencies
and FEATURE11i, 46
and patch bundles, 19
and patch chains, 28
copying products with patches, 74
difference between enforced and manual, 34
how to make sure you have everything, 62
installing products with patches, 84
on patch details page, 15
overview, 33
depots, 67
see also directory depots
see also tape depots
choosing type and location, 70
installing patches from, 81
overview, 20
types, 68
use strategy, 69
viewing, 70
details page, 39
directory depots
adding and updating applications, 74
advantages over tape, 68
copying a patch, 73
creating from existing depot, 72
installing select applications from, 84
overview, 68
registering, 75
removing, 80
removing software, 78
removing superseded patches, 79
unregistering, 75
using, 67
verifying, 76
viewing, 70
documentation
all related, 95
DRD, 91
Ignite-UX, 95
Software Distributor, 95
SWA, 89
Dynamic Root Disk (DRD)
documentation, 91
overview, 13
using, 90
E
enforced dependencies see dependencies
enhancement category tag, 22
F
Feature Enablement patch bundle see FEATURE11i
FEATURE11i, 55
see also standard HP-UX patch bundles
overlapping content with QPK and HWE, 56
overview, 46
use and release date table, 56
firmware category tag, 23
114 Index