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
How to get patches
HP provides numerous ways to acquire patches, ensuring that system administrators with different
goals and different levels of expertise can find a patch source to fit their needs. You can obtain
patches individually or in groups of related patches known as patch bundles.
This guide discusses the following HP-UX patch sources:
• HP Support Center (HPSC) website:
http://www.hp.com/go/hpsc
• Patch Tools:
HP-UX Software Assistant (SWA) is the HP-recommended utility to maintain currency with
HP-published security bulletins and recommended patch levels for HP-UX 11i software. See
“Using HP-UX Software Assistant for patch management” (page 89) for more information.
Where to start
If you have immediate patching needs, see Chapter 3: “Quick start guide for patching HP-UX
systems” (page 10).
If you want to learn about patching options, read all chapters in this guide, and then choose the
resource that best meets your needs.
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