HP-UX Patching Resources

The cold-install and update processes now includes installing critical patches from the HWEnable11i bundle provided with the HP-UX 11i v1 media. Immediately after your system is running 11i, your should install any additional critical or required patches to your base OS and applications which may have occurred since the install 11i media was produced.

Use Custom Patch Manager

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

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

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

Once you have downloaded needed patches, install them using the swinstall command, as explained in “Adding and Removing Individual Patches”.

Downloading Individual Patches

When you need to find and download a single patch, use HP's Patch Database. Begin at HP's 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. You will need to fill and submit a registration form if you do not currently have a user ID and password.

From the patch database main page, select hp-ux and use the search tool to find required patches and download them.

HP Security Bulletins

HP Security Bulletins are e-mailed periodically to announce critical patches for your system. To subscribe, go to HP's IT Resource Center:

http://itrc.hp.com

Select: Maintenance and Support -> Support Information Digests

HP-UX Support Plus

To keep your OS and HP-UX applications up-to-date, critical patches and general-release patches are delivered periodically to subscribers of HP-UX Support Plus service. You will need to install those patch bundles when they arrive. For more information on Support Plus, go to this web site:

http://software.hp.com/SUPPORT_PLUS

After installing the needed patch bundles from the Support Plus CD supplied with 11i, you should maintain your system by using the patch management tools available on HP's IT Resource Center.

Other HP-UX Patching Resources

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

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/os/11i/

General guidelines for patching HP-UX are provided in the HP-UX 11.0/11i Software Transition Kit:

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

Also see "Managing Patches" in the Software Distributor Administration Guide.

Installing Patches

Follow these steps to install each patch you've downloaded on each system prior to updating it to HP-UX 11i v1:

Back up your system!
Log in as root.
Copy the patches to the /tmp directory.
Change your working directory to /tmp and extract each patch using the sh command. For example, to extract patch PHSS_23184:
cd /tmp sh PHSS_23184
Run swinstall to install each patch. For example:
/usr/sbin/swinstall -x autoreboot=true -x \ patch_match_target=true -s /tmp/PHSS_23184.depot