HP e3000 MPE/iX System Software Maintenance Manual (Release C.75.00) (30216-90344)

Appendix F
HP Patch/iX Reference
HP Patch/iX Main Menu
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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.
HP Patch/iX purges all files found in the groups as selected. These files are typically left over from a
previous product installation and can cause either HP Patch/iX or AUTOINST to fail.
This is recommended for the Add-on activity.
• Restore files from reactive patch tape.
HP Patch/iX restores the patch files from the mounted tape and copies them into the patchxl.sys group.
Unmark this item if you have downloaded Reactive patch files to the PATCHXL.SYS group.
• Restore Product (SUBSYS) information files
HP Patch/iX restores a file that lists the ordered products that are on the mounted tape. When used with
information files delivered on the PowerPatch tape, HP Patch/iX will be able to qualify patches for those
products without forcing you to first install them on the system.
HP Patch/iX also restores library components from the tape. These are incorporated into the new libraries
that are created by HP Patch/iX.
This operation is recommended for the Add-on activity.