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

Contents
1 HP secure development lifecycle...................................................................7
2 HP-UX patches and patch management.........................................................8
Patch management strategies.....................................................................................................8
How to get patches..............................................................................................................9
Where to start.....................................................................................................................9
3 Quick start guide for patching HP-UX systems...............................................10
Overview..............................................................................................................................10
Before you begin....................................................................................................................10
Should you use standard HP-UX patch bundles?.....................................................................10
Should you use individual patches?......................................................................................10
Standard HP-UX patch bundles............................................................................................11
Acquiring and installing standard HP-UX patch bundles...............................................................11
Acquiring the bundles........................................................................................................11
Installing the bundles..........................................................................................................12
Advanced topic: using Dynamic Root Disk (DRD)....................................................................13
Acquiring and installing individual patches................................................................................14
Acquiring the patches.........................................................................................................14
Installing the patches..........................................................................................................16
Advanced topic: using Dynamic Root Disk (DRD)....................................................................17
4 HP-UX patch overview...............................................................................18
Patch-related concepts.............................................................................................................18
Patch identification.............................................................................................................18
HP-UX software structure.....................................................................................................18
Patch bundles....................................................................................................................19
Software depots and patch depots.......................................................................................20
Patch status.......................................................................................................................20
Patch state........................................................................................................................21
State................................................................................................................................21
Category tags...................................................................................................................22
Which patches are on a system?..............................................................................................23
Examples of the swlist command..........................................................................................23
Ancestors and supersession......................................................................................................27
Ancestors..........................................................................................................................27
Advanced topic: determining patch ancestors...................................................................27
Supersession.....................................................................................................................28
Advanced topic: displaying supersession information.........................................................29
Advanced topic: supersession and the patch_state attribute................................................29
Patch-related attributes.............................................................................................................31
Patch dependencies................................................................................................................33
Types of dependencies.......................................................................................................34
Corequisites and prerequisites.............................................................................................34
Advanced topic: determining corequisite and prerequisite filesets with the swlist command.....34
Enforced and unenforced (manual) dependencies..................................................................34
Impact of dependencies on acquiring patches.......................................................................35
Patch rollback and commitment................................................................................................35
Patch rollback....................................................................................................................35
Advanced topic: patch installation and rollback files..........................................................35
Patch commitment..............................................................................................................36
Advanced topic: patch cleanup utility...................................................................................36
HP-UX patch ratings................................................................................................................37
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