Keeping Up to Date with the Latest Critical Patches

HP-UX Patching Resources

You should install any additional recommended critical or required patches to your base OS and applications which may have occurred since the initial HP-UX 11i v2 install media was produced.

Using the Custom Patch Manager

You can identify and download all needed patches for your system by using the HP Custom Patch Manager:

http://itrc.hp.com/wps/bin/doc.pl/sid=00f2dea61cb1fc364e

	NOTE: As of this release, use of CPM requires a current support contract or it may be used on a fee-per-use basis.

If you are already registered, log in with your user ID and password. If you are not registered, follow the instructions on the screen. Remember to save your user ID and password.

CPM will identify recommended patches for your system and all required dependencies. Once you have downloaded needed patches, install them using the swinstall command, as explained in “Installing OS Patches Required by Individual Applications”.

Downloading Individual Patches

When you need to find and download a single patch, use the HP Patch Database. Begin at the HP IT Resource Center web site:

http://itrc.hp.com

From the home page, select individual patches.

If you are already registered, log in with your user ID and password. If you are not registered, follow the instructions on the screen.

From the patch database main page, select HP-UX and use the search tool to find required patches and download them. You may download patches individually or as a group. All dependent patches will also be identified. Once you have downloaded needed patches, install them using the swinstall command as explained in “Adding HP-UX Patches to a Software Depot or System”.

HP Security Bulletins & Security Patch Check Tool

To keep informed on newly identified security patches and HP-UX patches released in a previous week, you can sign up to receive periodic HP Security Bulletins and weekly HP-UX Patch Digests, respectively. To subscribe, go to the HP IT Resource Center:

http://itrc.hp.com

Under Maintenance and Support, select subscribe to security bulletins & patch digests. For security bulletins, register for the HP-UX Security Bulletins digests, and for all HP-UX patches register for HP-UX 11.X Patch Digests. Security Patch Check is a tool available for identifying security patches applicable for your system. For more information on Security Patch Check, go to the web:

http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=B6834AA

Other HP-UX Patching Resources

If you are not familiar with patching HP-UX, documents in the Patch Management section of the HP documentation web site may be helpful.

http://docs.hp.com

Go to the operating system or environment version and then search for patch management. General guidelines for patching HP-UX are provided in the HP-UX Software Transition Kit:

http://devresource.hp.com/STK/hpuxpatch.html

Also see “Managing Patches” in the Software Distributor Administration Guide.