HP-UX 11i v3 Installation and Update Guide, September 2009 (Update 5 Release)

clicking the appropriate links for your product until you arrive at the link for
firmware downloads.
• You can also search for your product's firmware requirements at the Business
Support Center. Enter “Firmware” and the name of your hardware in the search
box. Note that the results also return a GUI that you can use to further refine your
search.
• To automatically receive email notices for the latest firmware updates, sign up
each of your products for Subscriber’s Choice:
Go to http://itrc.hp.com.
Click Subscribe to proactive notifications and security bulletins. Fill out the
next page as appropriate.
• For information about minimum firmware requirements for systems and I/O
devices, see the “System Firmware Matrixes - Minimum Firmware Requirements
for HP-UX 11i v3, 11i v2 and PCI I/O Adapters” (http://docs.hp.com/en/
hw.html#System%20Firmware).
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 12).
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.
16 Assessing your system and meeting system requirements