Checklist B. Manage Patches by Staging Area

Use this task checklist if your source material is on tape and/or electronically downloaded files, you are managing your patches, and you are using a staging area on disk to apply:

Reactive patches




	NOTE: Not all patches are stageable. For more information, refer to item 19 in section 3.2, "General Planning Tasks."

Print a copy of this checklist for each system that you are applying patches to.

Read and perform the steps only in the following sections:

Begin Preparation Tasks.Does not require exclusive access to the system.

Chapter 3 “Planning for Your Task”
- 3.1 Verifying Required Materials
- 3.2 General Planning Tasks
- 3.4 Checking Tape Media
- 3.6 Estimating Disk Space
  Record contiguous disk space:
  Record non-contiguous disk space:
Chapter 4 “Preparing Your System”
- 4.1 Reserving Disk Space for Tape Tasks
- 4.4 Initializing HP Stage/iX
- 4.7 Starting the Patch Management Tools
- 4.8 Selecting HP Patch/iX Activities
- 4.9 Viewing Patches—Optional
- 4.10 Qualifying Patches
- 4.11 Creating a Patch Tape or Staging Area
  Record manually installed products:
Chapter 5 “Modifying Your System”
- 5.10 Setting a Staging Area

Preparation Tasks completed. Schedule downtime for exclusive access.

Begin Exclusive Access Tasks.

- 5.11 Securing the System
  Record terminated logging processes:
  Record temporary filename for the COMMAND.PUB.SYS file:
- 5.12 Shutting Down the Remote System
- 5.14 Restarting the System
Chapter 6 “Finishing the Process”
- 6.4 Setting Passwords, Lockwords, and UDCs
- 6.8 Restarting Selected System Functions
- 6.9 Backing Up Your System
- 6.10 Permanently Applying a Staging Area-optional.
- 6.11 Finishing Up

Checklist B tasks completed.

Record system change:

System name:
System type:
Date change made:
Change performed by:
OS version from:
OS version to:
Comments:

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