HP e3000 MPE/iX Release 6.0 System Software Maintenance Manual (30216-90272)
Table Of Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Task Checklists
- 3 Planning for Your Task
- 4 Preparing Your System
- 5 Modifying Your System
- 6 Finishing the Process
- A Manually Installed Products
- B Configuration Tables
- C Managing Disk Space
- D Backdating Your System
- E CD-ROM Resources
- F HP Patch/iX Reference
- G HP Stage/iX Reference
- H Error Messages and Warnings
- A
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Planning for Your Task
3.2 General Planning Tasks
performing the Update or Install for 6.0. For further information, see the
Communicator 3000.
17.Document your current system configuration.
Keep a listing of output from:
• DSTAT ALL command for volume set and volume names.
• DISCFREE C for a percentage of permanent and transient space used on your system.
• SYSINFO for your system configuration.
If you have mirrored disks and users are logged on, do not run SYSINFO. When you can
access the system, verify that you have a current version of SYSINFO on your system
and keep your listing.
18.Plan for downtime.
Most of the tasks described in this manual require that you shutdown your system.
Plan for this downtime. DO NOT SHUTDOWN your system until it is necessary. Each
task checklist indicates when the system will be shutdown. Perform all the other steps
for the task while your system is up.
To estimate the amount of downtime, review the steps you need to perform after the
system is shutdown. Where possible, an estimate of time is provided. Record the
amount of time for the individual steps and add it up. This will give you a very rough
estimate of the amount of system downtime you will require.
The amount of time listed is based on small and low-end machines. Actual time values
can be about one-half of the time listed.
19.If you are using HP Stage/iX, be aware that not all patches are stageable.
At the time of release 6.0, Stage/iX cannot handle patches which involve System
configuration files, MMSAVE.MPEXL.SYS, nonsystem volume set files, and patches with
files that contain jobs that are streamed during patch installation. During the process,
Stage/iX will identify which patches are stageable.
20.If you are using HP Stage/iX to apply patches to your system, remove old
stages BEFORE applying the new release.
Since the process installs a new operating system, you must uninstall HP Stage/iX
and/or remove all of the old stages BEFORE applying the factory SLT.
Uninstalling HP Stage/iX deletes all staging areas and all files and directories that HP
Stage/iX has built.
To uninstall HP Stage/iX:
:STAGEMAN
STAGEMAN>UNINSTALL
Reply Y to the prompt, Are you sure?
• General Planning Tasks completed. Go to the next section on your
checklist.