Identifying Model, OS/OE, and Software

Before you cold-install or update to HP-UX 11i v2, check the model and other information on the system. You can use this information in the “System Requirements”.

Identifying model

To determine the model number of your system, enter:

model

To verify that HP-UX 11i v2 is supported on your system see “Supported Servers and Workstations”.

From EFI you can identify the model by interrupting the autoboot process in the boot manager, entering the EFI shell, and using the info sys command:

Shell> info sys

The sample output should appear as follows:

SYSTEM INFORMATION
Product Name: server rx2600
Serial Number: sg20220034
UUID: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF

Identifying OS and OE

To identify the OS version that your system is currently running, enter:

uname -r

When a system has HP-UX 11i v2 installed, you can determine which revision (Release ID) is installed by entering the following command:

/usr/sbin/swlist -l bundle

The HPUXBaseAux bundle indicate the current installed revision level. The revision level is indicated both in the bundle version number and the description text.

To identify the Operating Environment currently installed on your system, use swlist. For example:

/usr/sbin/swlist

The output of this command includes a line which identifies the installed OE. For example, this HP-UX 11i v2 OE release generates this line:

HPUX11i-OE B.11.23 HP-UX 11i Operating Environment Component

Identifying installed software

To identify the software products on a system or media, use swlist. For example, to show revision and descriptive title of all software installed on a system, enter:

/usr/sbin/swlist

For example, to list all products and their versions on a DVD mounted at /cdrom, enter:

/usr/sbin/swlist -s /cdrom

To get table of contents and product details, enter:

/usr/sbin/swlist -dvl product -a readme @ /cdrom

The swlist command has many options to expand or narrow the listing to specific attributes; see the swlist(1M) manpage or the Software Distributor Administrator Guide, available on the Instant Information DVD and on this web site: http://docs.hp.com/hpux/os/11iv2

	NOTE: The cold-install process will erase all software on the root volume before installing HP-UX 11i v2. If you wish to retain any existing software, be sure to back up that software before migrating, or use update.