HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update Guide, March 2013

• HP Integrity Servers
http://www.hp.com/go/Integrity_Servers-docs
• HP Proliant Servers
http://www.hp.com/go/proliant_servers-docs
Receiving firmware alerts
1. Go to http://www.hp.com/go/myhpalerts.
2. Follow the instructions to register each of your products.
Identifying model, release, and installed software
Before you cold-install or update to HP-UX 11i v3, you need to identify the model of your system
and other information.
Identifying the model
To ensure you are using a supported system, check the model number. To determine the model
number of your system, enter:
model
To verify that HP-UX 11i v3 is supported on your system, see “Supported systems” (page 10).
For Itanium-based systems, you can identify the model by using the Extensible Firmware Interface
(EFI): interrupt the autoboot process in the boot manager, enter the EFI shell, and use the info sys
command:
Shell> info sys
Information about the model is displayed. For example:
SYSTEM INFORMATION
Product Name: server rx2600
Serial Number: sg20220034
UUID: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF
Identifying the release date and Operating Environment
To ensure you are following a supported update path, determine the release and Operating
Environment currently on your system.
Each HP-UX 11i release has an associated release name and release identifier. The uname(1)
command with the -r option returns the release identifier. Table 5 lists the releases available for
HP-UX 11i.
Table 5 HP-UX 11i release identifiers
Supported processor architectureRelease nameRelease identifier
PA-RISCHP-UX 11i v1B.11.11
Intel® Itanium® and PA-RISC
1
HP-UX 11i v2B.11.23
Intel® Itanium® and PA-RISC
HP-UX 11i v3B.11.31
1
PA-RISC is supported on HP-UX 11i v2 starting with the September 2004 release.
You can determine the update release date and the Operating Environment by entering the
following:
# swlist | grep HPUX11i
The resulting output will list the current release identifier, update release date, and Operating
Environment. For example:
14 Assessing your system and meeting system requirements