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To be sure that your HP-UX system is reliable and secure:

• Install the latest quality pack patch bundles delivered on the support plus release. These bundles are released regularly and provide the most reliable and thoroughly tested set of patches. If there are recommended additional patches that address warnings against patches in the bundle, be sure to include them as well.

• Run a patch assessment to identify:

  • Appropriate security patches
  • Patches for subsystems or applications not covered by the quality pack patch bundles
  • Replacements for installed patches with critical warnings

  Running a patch assessment ensures that your system has the currently recommended configuration.

• Subscribe to the appropriate support information digests to stay informed of new patches as they become available.

Standard HP-UX Patch Bundles

The web pages for each release provide information and download instructions for the following patch bundles:

As a result, you may find different versions of patches (older or newer) in the HWE or QPK bundles for a given version of HP-UX.

Bundle Information

The Standard HP-UX Patch Bundles pages provide information and installation instructions for the following patch bundles:

Since June 2008, HPE has delivered QPK patch bundles for HP-UX 11i Version 2 (B.11.23) on new Support Pack media. The new media includes the OnlineDiag and SysFaultMgt bundles for diagnostics support, and the Software Pack bundles that provide optional core enhancements for HP-UX 11i v2.

The HPE Support Center page for each 11.23 Support Pack release has links to the latest patch bundles and to a 'read before installing' document.

Run a patch assessment

Run a patch assessment to ensure that your system has a consistent and recent collection of patches. You need:

• A system configuration file, which specifies what software, including patches and patch bundles are currently installed.
• An assessment profile, which contains the rules to determine which patches and patch bundles are appropriate for your system.

Use the swainv command on the target system to generate the ASCII text file that primarily contains the output of the HP-UX command 'swlist'. This file is then uploaded into the patch application in preparation for running an assessment.

To specify your system configuration, select the link 'upload new system information' on the Run a patch assessment page.

The assessment profile controls the behavior of patch assessment.

Select the default profile (hpRecommended) to:

• Identify security patches.
• Identify patches to replace installed patches that have critical warnings.
• Detect whether your system has the latest recommended quality pack patch bundle(s) installed.

You can also create a custom profile.

Select the system to assess and the assessment profile to use, then click 'Display candidate patches'. Shortly, a patch assessment results page is displayed.

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The result is a list of patch related issues, presented depending on the assessment profile. Patches or patch bundles that address an identified issue are listed as recommended. Some issues may not have a recommendation.

To generate a more detailed, text-only assessment report, ideal for archiving or emailing, use the 'Show detailed assessment report' link near the top of the results page. This report captures system characteristics, the assessment profile, which patches or bundles each chosen analyzer recommends, and a summary with detailed information about the recommended patches.

Review all recommended items. Take special care to review any recommended patches that have a warning or special installation instructions.

From the assessment results page, deselect any recommended item that is not appropriate for your system. Press the 'Add to My Patch List' button to add all selected items to your selected patch list.

Press the 'Download Selected' button to take delivery of the patches. From the download patches page, you may select from a variety of formats including tar, zip, gzip.

Configure an assessment profile

The assessment profile allows you to customize the behavior of the patch assessment tool. Adjust the profile to indicate which types of issue to identify, which patch sets to validate against, and how risk averse your patch strategy is.

Name and describe your assessment profile. Specify your patch strategy:

Select patch options as follows:

Quality pack patch bundles (QPKs) contain stable defect-fix patches for the proactive maintenance of HPE servers and workstations. HPE thoroughly tests each QPK and requires that it pass the same tests as would a new HP-UX operating system release.

• For HP-UX 11.00, there is a single QPK bundle that includes all stable defect-fix patches for the core OS, graphics and networking drivers.
• For HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11) and HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23), there are two QPK bundles: a base bundle that includes all stable defect-fix patches for the core OS, graphics and networking drivers; and an applications bundle that contains all stable defect-fix patches for the Operating Environment (OE) applications.

Patches or patch chains can be specified as well.

• List specific patches in the 'add these specific patches' area to specify that the patch assessment tool should identify when the patch is not installed on the system being analyzed. The patch assessment tool will recommend that you install the specific patch. If the patch will not install on the system being analyzed, no recommendation will be made.
• List specific patches in the 'add these specific patch chains' area to specify that the patch assessment tool should identify when neither the patch nor any of its successors are installed on the system being analyzed. The patch assessment tool will recommend that you install the appropriate version of the patch depending on your patching strategy. If the patch will not install on the system being analyzed, no recommendation will be made.
• List specific patches in the 'add these mandatory patches -- even if they will not currently install on the system' area to specify that the patch assessment tool should identify when the patch is not installed on the system being analyzed. The patch assessment tool will recommend the specific patch, even if it will not currently install on your system.

Patch sets identify the appropriate patches for hardware, operating system, and software applications. They are updated weekly by HPE, so contain the current, best known configurations. Patch sets are maintained for restrictive and conservative patch strategies, and can be used to determine if you are properly configured to run the applications installed on your system.

If you specify the 'innovative' patch strategy, the appropriate 'conservative' patch set is used.

Use the application patch set selector to select from the available application patch sets. Be sure to browse within all categories to identify all appropriate sets. For each set, the patch assessment tool verifies that all patches or their successors in the patch set, appropriate for your patching strategy, are installed.

Interpret assessment results

The output of a patch assessment contains a list of patch issues identified for the system being analyzed. Which issues are displayed is controlled by the configuration profile as described above.

When possible, for each patch issue shown, a recommendation is made specifying the appropriate patch or patch bundle which resolves the issue. The recommended item will usually be a newer patch that contains an appropriate defect fix. Which patch is recommended is determined by the patching strategy specified in the assessment profile.

Frequently, a single recommendation resolves several related issues. This is especially likely if installing the latest quality pack is recommended. In such a case, all issues resolved by the recommended patch or patch bundle are listed immediately below it.

The assessment profile controls which analyzers are used during the patch assessment. For each issue displayed, the name of the analyzer which identified the issue is included.

(A more detailed patch assessment report, in text format only, can be generated via a link on the assessment results page. This report provides details about the system, the assessment profile, and each analyzer's recommendations, and is ideal for archiving or emailing.)

The following is a list of the issues that may result during a patch assessment.

• latest quality pack patch bundle P1 is not installed.

  You have specified 'latest quality pack patch bundle' in the assessment profile and quality pack patch bundle P1 is not installed on your system. The recommendation will be P1.

• latest quality pack patch bundle P1 has patch with critical warning: P2 latest quality pack patch bundle P1 has patch with non-critical warning: P2

  Quality pack patch bundle P1, which is not yet installed on your system but is recommended for installation, contains patch P2 with a warning, either critical or non-critical.

  The recommendation will be a successor of patch P2 which does not have a warning. If the patch strategy specified in the assessment profile is 'innovative', the recommendation will be the 'most recent' patch on the chain. Otherwise, it will be the 'recommended' patch on the chain.

  If no recommendation is made, be sure to review the details of the patch in question to determine if the warning will affect your system once the quality pack patch bundle is installed. Take appropriate action.

• security patch P1 is not installed

  Patch P1 has been identified as a security patch appropriate for your system; it is not currently installed. If the patch strategy specified in the assessment profile is 'innovative', the recommendation will be the 'most recent' patch on the chain. Otherwise, it will be the 'recommended' patch on the chain.

  In this case, a patch recommendation will always be made. If all patches which resolve this issue have warnings, the best patch with warnings is recommended. In this situation, be sure to review the warnings against the recommended patch and decide if installing the patch is appropriate.

• installed patch with critical warning: P1 installed patch with non-critical warning: P1

  Patch P1 is currently installed on your system and that patch has a warning, either critical or non-critical.

  The recommendation will be a successor of patch P1 which does not have a warning. If the patch strategy specified in the assessment profile is 'innovative', the recommendation will be the 'most recent' patch on the chain. Otherwise, it will be the 'recommended' patch on the chain.

  If no recommendation is made, be sure to review the details of the patch in question to determine if the warning will affect your system. Take appropriate action.

• patch P1 containing critical fix is not installed

  You have specified 'critical fixes' in the assessment profile. Patch P1 was identified to contain a critical fix. However, this patch is not installed on your system. If the patch strategy specified in the assessment profile is 'innovative', the recommendation will be the 'most recent' patch on the chain. Otherwise, it will be the 'recommended' patch on the chain.

• installed patch P1 has successor P2

  You have specified 'updates for the patches already installed' in the assessment profile. Installed patch P1 has been replaced and the best replacement, according to your patch strategy is P2. The recommendation will be P2.

• candidate patch P1 is not installed

  You have specified 'all applicable patches' in the assessment profile and patch P1 is not installed on your system. The recommendation will be P1.

• requested patch P1 is not installed

  You have specified in the assessment profile that patch P1 should be installed on this system. However, P1 is not installed. The recommendation will be P1.

• requested patch P1 is not applicable to this system

  You have specified in the assessment profile that patch P1 should be installed on this system. However, P1 is not applicable to this system. This results because P1 patches filesets which are not installed on this system. There will be no recommendation.

• requested patch chain P1 is not installed

  You have specified in the assessment profile that patch P1 or one of P1's successors should be installed on this system. However, neither P1 nor any of its successors is installed. If the patch strategy specified in the assessment profile is 'innovative', the recommendation will be the 'most recent' patch on the chain. Otherwise, it will be the 'recommended' patch on the chain.

• requested patch is unrecognized: P1

  You have specified in the assessment profile that patch P1 should be installed on this system. However, the patch assessment tool does not recognize this patch. There will be no recommendation.

• requested non-applicable patch P1 is not installed

  You have specified in the assessment profile that patch P1 should be installed on this system. However, P1 is not installed and is not applicable to this system. This results because P1 patches filesets which are not currently installed on this system. The recommendation will be P1.

• requested patch P1 is not appropriate for the HW/OS

  You have specified in the assessment profile that patch P1 should be installed on this system. However, P1 is not appropriate for this system, because P1 patches a different HW/OS than this system. There will be no recommendation.

• requested patch P1 is superseded by installed patch P2

  The patch you have explicitly requested in the assessment profile P1 cannot be installed on this system because P2, a later version of that patch, is already installed. There will be no recommendation.

• patch P1 in set S1 is not installed

  You have specified patch set S1 in your assessment profile. Patch P1 is included in this set. However, neither P1 nor any of its successors is installed on your system. The recommended patch will be P1.

• no patch set named S1 for S2 strategy found for OS OS1

  You have specified patch set S1 in your assessment profile. Additionally, you have specified patch strategy S2. It was not possible to locate an appropriate patch set for your system, which is running operating system OS1.

• no patch set named S1 for S2 strategy found for OS OS1 and model M1

  You have specified patch set S1 in your assessment profile. Additionally, you have specified patch strategy S2. It was not possible to locate an appropriate patch set for your system, which is a model M1 running operating system OS1.

• failed to locate necessary installed file set required for patch set S1 for S2 strategy and OS OS1

  You have specified patch set S1 in your assessment profile. Additionally, you have specified patch strategy S2. It was not possible to locate an appropriate patch set for your system, which is running operating system OS1. This results because this system does not have particular software installed which is required by the patch set.

• installed patch is unrecognized: P1

  The system configuration file indicates that patch P1 is installed on your system. However, the patch assessment tool does not recognize this patch. If this patch is a special early release patch obtained from HP, be sure to discard any recommended patches which may interfere with this patch.

• installed patch P1 missing dependent patch P2

  Your system has patch P1 installed, and patch P1 lists patch P2 as a dependency. However, P2 is not installed. This may result for several reasons:

  • Your system may be misconfigured.
  • P2 may have been added as a dependency of P1 after your system was configured, or
  • P2 is not applicable to your system and the patch assessment tool cannot recognize this.

  If the patch strategy specified in the assessment profile is 'innovative', the recommendation will be the 'most recent' patch on the chain. Otherwise, it will be the 'recommended' patch on the chain.

  In this case, a patch recommendation will always be made. If all patches which resolve this issue have warnings, the best patch with warnings will be recommended. In this situation, be sure to review the warnings against the recommended patch and decide if installing the patch is appropriate.

  If this issue arises because patch P2 is not applicable to your system, the software distributor tool 'swinstall' may not allow you to install the recommendation.

Frequently, a recommended patch requires another patch as a dependency. If the dependent patch is not already installed and it does not resolve other patch issues, it will be listed in the additional dependencies table.

Occasionally, the only patch that satisfies a dependency will have a warning. In this case, review the warning prior to adding the patch to the download list. If you decide not to take delivery of the dependent patch, you will have to deselect the recommended patch as well.

When two issues are emitted during a patch assessment that involve related patches (one is a successor of the other), it is possible that their recommendations may conflict. In this case, the most recent of the recommendations will be used to resolve both issues.

Frequently the patch assessment tool will identify issues with your system for which no recommendation is made. The recommendations made by the system depend on your specified patching strategy. Frequently, there is no patch with sufficient rating for your specified strategy that resolves the issue. In this situation, you should review the issue and make an appropriate decision.

HP-UX Patches - Advisory Notices

Effective November 28th, 2007, HP-UX patches may include additional text called Advisory Notices that will be used to call attention to defects with certain characteristics that customers may want to search the HPE Support Center database for. The new phrases will be included in the details section of some patches that bear the CRITICAL flag. There are two forms of advisories:

HP-UX 11i Version 2 September 2004

HP-UX 11i version 2 (B.11.23), originally released in September of 2003 for Itanium-based systems, includes support for the HP 9000 PA-RISC server family. For this update, HPE will ship HP-UX 11i v2 software for the Itanium-based and PA-RISC architectures on the same DVD media, which will have the date of September 2004. During installation, it will automatically determine which software to load.

HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004 provides new functionality to both HP 9000 and Itanium-based systems, most notably 128-way scalability. You can find details regarding this new functionality and a complete list of systems supported on HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004 in the HP-UX 11i v2 Release Notes for September 2004 (part number 5990-8153).

While HPE will support Itanium-based systems running earlier versions of HP-UX 11i v2, HPE strongly recommends all current HP-UX 11i v2 customers proactively plan to update to HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004 during their next maintenance window. After the release of HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004, all future products and patches for HP-UX 11i v2 will be created and tested utilizing this release. Individual patches and patch bundles released from September 2004 forward will require that HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004 or a later version of HP-UX 11i v2 be installed.

Note: To avoid kernel build failures, please read the information in the following two boxes prior to updating to HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004.

Prior to updating from an earlier version of HP-UX 11i v2 or HP-UX 11i v1.6 (B.11.22) to HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004, you MUST first load the August 2004 version of BUNDLE11i. The August version of BUNDLE11i can be loaded from the DVD that was sent to all customers on support, or can be obtained from the HPE Support Center as follows.

1. Go to HPE Support Center
2. If you are not already registered, do so now by selecting 'register now'.
3. Select 'HP-UX patch bundles', and then select 'Aug '04'.
4. Select either the HP-UX 11i v2 or the HP-UX 11i v1.6 version of BUNDLE11i.
5. Select 'bundle readme' from the gray box to view the Readme file, then print the file as it contains important instructions for installing this bundle. Then press 'back' to return to the BUNDLE11i page.
6. Select 'add to my patch list'.
7. Select 'download selected' and follow the instructions to download the August 2004 version of BUNDLE11i.
8. Follow the instructions in the Readme file for the August 2004 version of BUNDLE11i (that you printed out in step 6 above) regarding how to install this bundle.

If you cold install HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004, or update from HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11) to HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004, you do not need to load the August 2004 version of BUNDLE11i.

Important Note: Updating HP-UX 11i v2 Systems with the PCI-MUX Software Installed

Prior to updating from HP-UX 11i v2 to HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004 on a system that has revision B.11.23.01 of the PCI-MUX software installed, you must first update the PCI-MUX software to revision B.11.23.1.1 or later. This version of the PCI-MUX software may be obtained from the HP-UX 11i v2 media released in September 2004 or later. Failure to update the PCI-MUX software will result in the following kernel build failure during the update to HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004:

ld: Unsatisfied protected symbol 'forceclose' infile '/usr/conf/lib/libpci_mux.a[eqnx_bus_pci_mux.o]'

Customers with an older release of HP-UX 11i v2 who have an HPE support contract should have received a letter with instructions on how to request the HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004 media as part of their support service. Support customers also should have received the media containing the August 2004 version of BUNDLE11i directly, and this media should be loaded prior to updating systems to HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004. See the 'Important Note' on the previous page for more details. If you are a support customer and have not received the HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004 media and the media with the August 2004 version of BUNDLE11i, please contact your HPE support representative.

Customers with an older release of HP-UX 11i v2 who do not have a support contract with HPE can obtain the HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004 media and the media with the August 2004 version of BUNDLE11i by calling the local HPE sales office and doing one of two things:

• purchase a support contract so that you receive this update to HP-UX 11i v2 as well as future updates.
• request the name of an HPE Reseller in your area with expertise in HP-UX who will sell you the HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004 media.

Part numbers for the HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004 media, plus the media containing the August 2004 version of BUNDLE11i, are as follows:

1. 5013-3260 DVD with the August 2004 version of BUNDLE11i
2. 5013-2296 DVD for HP-UX 11i v2 Foundation OE, September 2004
3. 5013-2298 DVD for HP-UX 11i v2 Enterprise OE, September 2004
4. 5013-2299 DVD for HP-UX 11i v2 Mission Critical OE, September 2004
5. 5013-2300 DVD for HP-UX 11i v2 Minimum Technical OE, September 2004
6. 5013-2297 DVD for HP-UX 11i v2 Technical Computing OE, September 2004

Run a patch assessment on your HP-UX 11i v2 system

If you use the HPE Support Center to analyze an HP-UX 11i v2 system, the analysis will only complete if you have updated to HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004 or later. If you have a version of HP-UX 11i v2 released earlier than September 2004, you will need to first update your system prior to doing a patch assessment.

To determine if HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004 or later is installed on your system, use the following swlist command to check the version of BUNDLE11i:

The version of BUNDLE11i should be B.11.23.0409.3. If version B.11.23.0408.1 is on your system, you will still need to load HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004.

Customers who already have HP-UX 11i v2 on their system but need to update to HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004 can obtain the media needed by following the instructions in the section labelled 'Obtaining the HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004 media.'

Download individual HP-UX 11i v2 patches

Part of the HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004 release is delivered via patches, and these patches are designated as 'required' patches at the HPE Support Center. If you attempt to download one of these required patches individually from the HPE Support Center, you will be given the following warning:

'Any patch that is designated as a 'required' patch should not be downloaded and/or installed individually. Instead, your system should be updated to at least the September 2004 quarterly release of HP-UX 11i Version 2 (B.11.23) which will include the patch you have selected.'

If this message appears, you can determine if HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004 or later is installed by checking the version of BUNDLE11i on your system with the following swlist command:

The version of BUNDLE11i should be B.11.23.0409.3. If version B.11.23.0408.1 is on your system, you will still need to load HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004. See the 'Obtaining the HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004 media' section for details on obtaining media if needed, and also read the important notes in the two text boxes contained in this document prior to updating to HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004. Note that once HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004 or later has been loaded, it will include the patch you initially tried to select at the HPE Support Center. The patch redirected you to this web page. There should be no further need to load this particular patch once HP-UX 11i v2 September 2004 or later is loaded.

Patch Set Definitions

Patch sets are groups of patches that should be installed to support common HPE products and sub-systems. Not all patch sets are available for all versions of HP-UX. If there is no version of a specific patch set for your version of HP-UX, it is most likely because no patch set is needed to support the product or subsystem on that HP-UX version.

While patch sets are added and modified on a regular basis, the tables in the sections below show the current patch sets available.

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