HP UX Patch Management manual Ipd

HP-UX Software	A tool that consolidates and simplifies patch management and security bulletin management
Assistant	on HP-UX systems. The SWA tool is the HP-recommended utility to use to maintain currency
	with HP-published security bulletins and recommended patch levels for HP-UX 11i software.
	SWA has been released for HP-UX 11i systems. SWA can perform a number of checks including
	published security issues, installed patches with warnings, and missing patches with critical
	fixes. Once an analysis has been performed, you can use SWA to download any recommended
	patches or patch bundles and create a depot ready for installation.
Ignite-UX	An application that facilitates installing and configuring HP-UX systems. Ignite-UX provides
	a toolset used on HP-UX for doing cold installs and system recovery. It uses SD for doing
	package-based installs, and can also use golden images for supplying software.
installed product	A product that has been installed on a host so that its files can be used by end users. Contrasts
	with a product residing in a depot on a host's file system. Sometimes referred to as an available
	product.
Installed Products	Describes the products that are installed on any given host (or within an alternate root). Installed
Database	product information is created by the swinstall command, and managed by the swmodify
	command. The contents of an IPD reside in a directory structure with a single common root.
IPD	See Installed Products Database.
IUX	See Ignite-UX.
object	The pieces of software that SD-UX packages, distributes, installs, and manages. There are three
	classes of objects: software (installed on target roots or available in depots), containers (depot,
	roots, alternate roots), and jobs.
patch	Software designed to update specific bundles, products, subproducts, filesets, or files on a
	system. By definition, patch software is packaged with the is_patch attribute set to true.
patch bundle	Is a collection of patches that have been grouped into a single software object (bundle) to meet
	a specific need.
	See also bundle.
patch category	Patches have categories, or category tags, associated with them to simplify the process of
	determining the general purpose of a specific patch.
patch rollback	The process of removing a patch from the system and restoring the system to the prepatched
	state.
patch warning	Is a notification that a patch causes or exposes adverse behavior. Patch warnings provide specific
	information about this incorrect behavior, as well as other important details and
	recommendations.
prerequisite	A dependency in which one fileset requires another fileset to be installed or configured before
	the first fileset can be installed or configured. For example, fileset A might require that fileset
	B is installed before fileset A can be installed. Therefore, fileset B is a prerequisite for fileset A.
	See also dependency, corequisite.
product directory	The root directory of a product object, in which most of its files are contained. You can change
	(relocate) the default product directory when you install a locatable product.
rollback	See patch rollback.
SD	See Software Distributor.
SD-UX	HP-UX software management commands. These commands are referred to as SD-UX (Software
	Distributor-HP-UX).
	See also Software Distributor.
serial depot	See tape depot.
software depot	An SD format structure that contains one or more software products that can be installed on
	other systems or copied to other depots.
Software	The native toolset used on HP-UX for managing software packages.
Distributor
software object	The objects packaged, distributed, installed, or managed by SD. A software object can be a file,
	fileset, bundle, or product. Most operations are performed on filesets.

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