Patch Management User Guide for HP-UX 11.x Systems

Quick Start Guide, 9
R
ratings, 34
reactive patching strategy, 49
(see also patch strategies)
readme attribute, 30, 38
recovery, 41
registered depots, 71
Required Patch Bundle (see BUNDLE11i)
resources
all related, 91
DRD, 87
SWA, 85
S
SD-UX (see Software Distributor)
security, 50
security patching strategy, 50
(see also patch strategies)
Selected Patch List Table, 58
serial access depots, 66
service contracts, 45
show_patches, 65
availability of command, 59
list Special Installation instructions, 44
show superseded patches, 27
Software Assistant (see SWA)
Software Depot, 53
software depots (see depots)
Software Distributor
commands, 64
description of SW object structure, 17
documentation, 91
software_spec attribute, 30
special installation instructions, 58
special_release category tag, 21
standard HP-UX patch bundles, 52
(see also FEATURE11i)
(see also HWE)
(see also QPK)
acquiring, 10
finding in the patch database, 62
installing, 11
key features, 52
names, 52
names and HP-UX versions, 10
obtaining, 53
overview, 52
release dates, 53
using, 9, 43, 53
state attribute, 20, 30
strategies (see patch strategies)
Subscriber's Choice, 62
superseded_by attribute, 30
supersedes attribute, 30
supersession
and patch_state attribute, 28
and the cleanup utility, 76
chain diagram, 29, 31
displaying information, 27
overview, 26
support agreement information in the ITRC, 55
SWA
documentation, 85
using, 85
swcopy, 65
category tags, 20
create a depot, 69
example, 70
manpage, 69
options, 69
patch dependencies, 71
registered depots, 72
swinstall, 65
autoselect_patches, 80
category tags, 20
example, 79
installing bundles, 12
installing patches, 15, 77
remote access, 67
rollback files, 33
swlist, 65
attributes, 30
bundles, 18, 81
category tags, 20, 36
corequisite and prerequisite filesets, 32
depot registration, 72
examples, 22, 67, 81
overview, 21
patch ancestors, 25
patch_id, 20
patch_state, 20, 28
readme attribute, 38
supersession information, 27
variations, 24
viewing depots, 67
swmodify, 65
patch commit, 33
swreg, 65
examples, 72
registered depots, 72
removing depot, 77
swremove, 65
examples, 75
options, 74
patch rollback, 33
registered depots, 72
swverify, 65
examples, 73
options, 73
overview, 73
sysdiff, 65
T
tape depots
creating directory depot from tape depot, 69
disadvantages, 65
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