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
Examples of the swlist command
To view a list of registered depots on the local system, use this command:
swlist -l depot
For example:
$ swlist -l depot
# Initializing...
# Target "my_system" has the following depot(s):
/var/spool/sw
/bundles/sp1209/QPK1131/depot380
/bundles/sp1209/HWEnable11i/depot380
/bundles/sp1209/FEATURE11i/depot380
To view a list of registered depots on a remote system, use this command:
swlist -l depot @ remote_system
For example:
$ swlist -l depot @ swdepot.xyz.com
# Initializing...
# Target "swdepot.xyz.com" has the following depot(s):
/depot/patches/11.00
/depot/patches/11.04
/depot/patches/11.11
/depot/patches/11.23
To list the contents of a directory or tape depot, use this command:
swlist -l level -d @ remote_system:/directory_path/depot_name
The following values for level are useful: bundle, product, and fileset. For more information
about level, see Chapter 4: “HP-UX patch overview” (page 18).
For example:
$ swlist -l product -d @ swdepot.xyz.com:/depot/patches/11.11
# Initializing...
# Contacting target "swdepot.xyz.com"...
#
# Target: swdepot.xyz.com:/depot/patches/11.11
#
PHCO_23263 B.11.11.15 HP AutoRAID Manager cumulative patch
PHCO_23370 1.0 lint(1) library patch
PHCO_23463 1.0 sysdef(1) patch
PHCO_23492 1.0 Kernsymtab Patch
PHCO_23702 1.0 cumulative header file patch for prot.h
PHCO_23909 1.0 cu(1) patch
...
To view the contents of a specified directory depot at various levels, use this command:
swlist -l level @ remote_system:/directory_path/depot_name
The following values for level are useful: bundle, product, and fileset. This command
does not work for a tape depot.
For example:
$ swlist -l product @ swdepot.xyz.com:/depot/patches/1123.depot
# Initializing...
# Contacting target "swdepot.xyz.com"...
#
# Target: swdepot.xyz.com:/depot/patches/1123.depot
#
PHCO_29605 1.0 VxVM 3.5~IA.004 Command Patch 01
PHCO_29793 1.0 audisp(1M) patch
PHCO_29957 1.0 libc cumulative patch
PHCO_30027 1.0 Release notes document
...
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