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
* The analysis phase failed for
"my_system:/my_depots/PHSS_30278_depot".
* Verification had errors.
NOTE: More information may be found in the agent logfile using the
command "swjob -a log my_system-0841 @
my_system:/my_depots/PHSS_30278_depot".
======= 05/03/04 13:04:01 MDT END swverify SESSION (non-interactive)
(jobid=my_system-0841)
Removing software from a directory depot
If you need to remove patches from a directory depot, you can do so by using the swremove
command.
swremove [-p] -d patch_to_remove @ [target_system:]
/some_directory/target_depot
A basic description of these swremove arguments follows:
• -p
Executes the command in preview mode.
• -d
Operates on a depot rather than on installed software.
• patch_to_remove
◦ Specifies the patches to be removed.
◦ Replace with a wildcard to remove multiple patches with one command. For example:
◦ – \* selects everything from the source depot.
– \*,c=patch selects all patches from the source depot.
– PHXX_12345 selects patch PHXX_12345 from the source depot.
• @ [target_system:]/some_directory/target_depot
◦ Include target_system if you want to specify a system other than the local one.
◦ Use to specify the directory depot from which the selected patches will be removed.
The success or failure of the command is indicated in the output, which also details how to get
more information.
It is good practice to unregister a depot that has been made available for remote use prior to
modifying the depot. When you have completed depot modifications, reregister the depot to make
it available again.
The following example shows how to remove patch PHCO_27780 from directory depot
/my_depots/new_directory_depot on the system named my_system:
For example:
$ swremove -d PHCO_27780 @ my_system:/my_depots/new_directory_depot
======= 05/03/04 13:25:01 MDT BEGIN swremove SESSION
(non-interactive) (jobid=my_system-0843)
* Session started for user "some_user@my_system".
* Beginning Selection
* Target connection succeeded for
"my_system:/my_depots/new_directory_depot".
* Software selections:
PHCO_27780.CMDS-AUX,r=1.0,a=HP-UX_B.11.11_32/64,
78 Using software depots for patch management