HP-UX Patch Management Tools

Special notes

HP delivers this 4hr instructor-led, lecture-only, online technical seminar “live” using HP’s Virtual Training Room.

Seminar overview

This fast-paced, 4hr online lecture-only seminar demonstrates practical techniques to simplify patching and minimize system downtime by creating custom patch bundles and depots, and by leveraging HP’s new Software Assistant and Dynamic Root Disk tools.

Prerequisites

• The students must have previous HP-UX system administration experience

Audience

• HP-UX System Administrators
• HP-UX Senior System Administrators
• HP-UX Consultants

Ways to save

Next steps

• Attend one of our hands-on HP-UX courses from the curriculum path

Benefits to you

• Install, verify, remove, and commit patches via Software Distributor
• Create and manage custom patch bundles, depots, tapes, and CDROMs
• Easily select, download, and install patches with HP Software Assistant
• Minimize downtime by installing patches via the Dynamic Root Disk product

Seminar outline

Patch concepts

• Why install patches?
• Bundle, product, and fileset concepts
• Patch supersession
• Patch ratings
• Patch warnings
• Patch dependenciesSD-UX patch attributes
• SD-UX patch categories
• Patch sources
• Patch management tools

Installing and removing patches

• Sourcing patches from the ITRC
• Installing patches from depot DVDs, directories, and tapes,
• Installing patches: Selecting patches by name, category, or –x patch_match_target
• Verifying patch installation with swverify
• Verifying patch installation with swlist
• Removing patches with swremove
• Committing patches swmodify, swinstall, cleanup, and Ignite-UX

Simplifying patch management with SDUX depots

• SD-UX depot server concepts and advantages
• Planning for depots
• Creating a depot
• Copying software and patches to a depot
• Removing software from a depot with swremove
• Removing superseded patches from a depot with cleanup
• Registering or unregistering a depot
• Listing depots and their contents
• Pulling and software from a depot
• Pushing software from a depot
• Creating custom patch reference bundles
• Copying patches to a custom patch .depot file
• Copying patches to a custom patch tape
• Copying patches to a custom patch CD

Simplifying patch management with Software Assistant (SWA)

• Security patch overview
• SWA overview
• Installing SWA
• Generating SWA reports
• Selecting SWA analyzers
• Viewing SWA reports
• Retrieving SWA recommended patches
• Installing SWA patches
• Installing other products recommended by SWA
• Applying other manual changes
• Regenerating SWA reports
• Purging SWA caches
• Viewing SWA logs
• Customizing SWA defaults
• Integrating SWA and Systems Insight Manager (SIM)

Simplifying patch management with Dynamic Root Disk (DRD)

• DRD clone concepts
• Using DRD to minimize planned downtime
• Using DRD to minimize unplanned downtime
• Installing DRD
• Using the drd command
• Creating and updating a DRD clone
• Verifying a DRD clone’s status
• Installing patches on an inactive image
• Installing patches on an inactive image: caveats
• Accessing inactive images via other commands
• Activating and deactivating an inactive image