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
7. Read through the following Advanced Topic sections, then continue with the procedures in
“Check for patches with dependencies” (page 62)
Advanced topic: checking for special installation instructions
Some patches might have extra installation instructions, called special installation
instructions, that you should follow to install the patch successfully. The following steps show
you how to access these instructions.
1. If there is a patch in the selected patch list that has the special instructions icon beside it, select
the patch ID link to display the patch details page for the patch.
2. On the patch details page, read the special installation instructions section.
You should follow the instructions given here when you install the patch.
3. Select the view selected patch list link located in the upper right corner of the patch details
page to return to the selected patch list page.
4. Repeat these steps for any remaining patches in the selected patch list that also have special
instructions icons.
TIP: You can use the show_patches –it command directed at a source depot to list Special
Installation Instructions documented within any patches in the depot. For more information, see
show_patches(1).
The show patches command is available on 11i v3 systems, and is available as a patch in
preceding HP-UX versions:
• PHCO_32220 for 11i v2
• PHCO_27780 for 11i v1
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