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
Figure 2 HP-UX Patch Supersession Chain
The supersession chain in Figure 2: “HP-UX Patch Supersession Chain” (page 31) is composed of
two separate supersession chains that were combined when patch PHSS_29156 superseded both
PHSS_29026 and PHSS_29008. Again, because of the cumulative nature of HP-UX patches,
patch PHSS_29377 delivers all the features and fixes delivered by the other six patches in this
supersession chain.
Patch-related attributes
Each of the SD-UX objects described in “HP-UX software structure” (page 18) has a set of properties
known as attributes that provide information about the object's characteristics. For patches, these
attributes control aspects of patch behavior and define patch properties and relationships. (See
“State” (page 21) and “Patch state” (page 21).)
For information about how you can use attributes with the swlist command, see “Which patches
are on a system?” (page 23).
Patch-related attributes 31