HP releases patches to deliver incremental updates to your system.
Patches are best known for delivering defect fixes, but also deliver
new functionality and features, enable new hardware, and update firmware.
You can use HP-UX patches to update HP-UX software without having
to completely reinstall your system application.
Hewlett-Packard provides several methods to patch HP-UX systems:
Standard HP-UX Patch Bundles |
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The HP-UX OE media provides standard HP-UX patch bundles for
HP-UX core file sets and applications, plus diagnostic products. Standard
patch bundles are collections of patches that have been thoroughly
tested together. These bundles enable new hardware, fix known defects,
and provide diagnostics tools. In some cases, a patch bundle may
deliver new software functionality. All bundle software is cumulative
and replaces completely any previous bundle release for the same operating
system (OS) release.
For descriptions of the standard HP-UX patch bundles (including
Hardware Enablement, Quality Pack, and Feature Enablement), see the HP-UX 11i Version 3 Release Notes. In addition to being
delivered on the OE media, the standard HP-UX patch bundles are available
at the HP IT Resource Center website at http://itrc.hp.com
Documentation The Patch Management User Guide for HP-UX 11.x Systems provides information and procedures on how to acquire and install
standard HP-UX patch bundles. You can find the document at http://www.docs.hp.com/en/oshpux11iv3.html (navigate to Patch Management).
Individual HP-UX Patches |
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Individual HP-UX patches comprise the Standard HP-UX patch bundles.
The individual patches and patch bundles are available from the Patch
Database on the HP IT Resource Center website at http://itrc.hp.com
At times, you may find it necessary to acquire and install individual
patches, for example, based on known patch IDs, software functionality,
reactive patching, and security issues.
HP-UX Software Assistant |
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HP-UX Software Assistant (SWA)
is a tool that consolidates and simplifies patch management and security
bulletin management on HP-UX systems. SWA combines the versatility
and power of the HP IT Resource Center (ITRC) Patch Assessment and
Security Patch Check (SPC) utilities, and is the HP-recommended utility
to use to maintain currency with HP-published security bulletins for
HP-UX software.
SWA can perform a number of checks, including applicable security
bulletins and installed patches with critical warnings. Once an analysis
has been performed, you can use SWA to download any recommended patches
or patch bundles and create a depot ready for installation.
New for HP-UX 11i releases as of January 2007, the SWA tool's
bundle name is SwAssistant and its product number
is B6834AA. SWA is delivered as a recommended
(default-installed) product in all OEs.
The HP-UX Software Assistant website at https://www.hp.com/go/swa provides
a product overview, download links, documentation links, and installation
instructions.
Documentation The following SWA documents are available at http://www.docs.hp.com/en/oshpux11iv3.html (navigate to Patch Management):
The HP-UX Software Assistant Release Notes provides the features and functionality of the latest release, and
known problems.
The HP-UX Software Assistant System Administration
Guide provides an introduction to the tool, how to use
it, how to use the reporting, and troubleshooting.
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