HP e3000 MPE/iX Release 6.5 System Software Maintenance Manual (30216-90325)

Appendix F 289
HP Patch/iX Reference
HP Patch/iX Main Menu
Adding (SUBSYS) Products
Select
Adding (SUBSYS) Products if you have a SUBSYS product tape that was shipped
with your PowerPatch tape. SUBSYS products are subsystem products that you
specifically order. This option can be used only when a new product is being added to the
system at the same time a PowerPatch is applied. Applying SUBSYS products to your
system is known as the Add-On process. When you select this option, HP Patch/iX restores
product information from the SUBSYS tape that will be used in patch qualification.
If you are adding-on SUBSYS products with a PowerPatch, you can apply Reactive patches
at the same time. You cannot add-on SUBSYS products and Reactive patches together
without a PowerPatch.
If you are adding SUBSYS products, you cannot stage the modification. When this item is
selected, the Main menu replaces the
Create
[Stage] [Tape]
option with the Create [Tape] option.
Customizing Patch Preparation
When you select a patching activity, the default is to perform preparation operations for
that patching activity. You can instead customize patch preparation. When you customize
patch preparation, you are overriding the Hewlett-Packard recommended operations,
unless you have downloaded patches from the HP SupportLine web site.
If you downloaded patch files, you must deselect both “Purge all files in the PATCHXL.SYS
group” and “Restore files from Reactive patch tape.” Also if you downloaded files from the
web site, confirm that you have the following files in the INSTALL.SYS group:
PATCHIX, PATCH000, ABLDINTX, ALKEDCAT, ALKEDHLP, AUTOCM,
AUTOLED, AUTOSPTH.
If the patch files are not in the PATCHXL.SYS group, or the A-files are not in the
INSTALL.SYS group, Patch/iX will not allow you to unmark the item, “Restore files from
Reactive patch tape.”
In the customized patch preparation activity, the possible patch preparation operations are
the following:
• Purge unneeded files in INSTALL.SYS group.
HP Patch/iX purges all unnecessary files found in the INSTALL.SYS group. These files
are typically left over from a previous patch installation and can cause HP Patch/iX,
AUTOINST, or HPINSTAL to fail.
This operation is recommended for the PowerPatch, Reactive Patch, and Add-on
activities.
• Purge all files in PATCHXL.SYS group.
HP Patch/iX purges all files in the PATCHXL.SYS group. These are typically, files that are
left over from a previous patching process. This operation is recommended for Reactive
Patches unless you downloaded files from HP SupportLine.
Unmark this item if you have intentionally placed new patch files in the PATCHXL.SYS
group.
• Purge all files in USL.SYS, UXL.SYS, or UNL.SYS groups.