HP-UX Software Assistant Administration Guide (5900-3003, March 2013)

Contents
1 Introducing HP-UX Software Assistant............................................................5
HP-UX SWA overview................................................................................................................5
Release notes...........................................................................................................................5
Capabilities.............................................................................................................................5
Command structure...................................................................................................................5
The major modes.................................................................................................................6
Extended options.................................................................................................................7
Help..................................................................................................................................7
2 Installing HP-UX Software Assistant...............................................................8
Installation requirements............................................................................................................8
For Windows systems within HP SIM.......................................................................................8
For HP-UX systems – CLI or within HP SIM...............................................................................8
Getting the SWA software.........................................................................................................8
What version of SWA should I use?............................................................................................9
Installing SWA from a local or remote depot................................................................................9
Installing SWA to use within HP SIM...........................................................................................9
On Windows......................................................................................................................9
On HP-UX...........................................................................................................................9
Uninstalling SWA...................................................................................................................10
From a Windows system.....................................................................................................10
From an HP-UX system........................................................................................................10
3 Quick Start..............................................................................................11
Steps to using SWA................................................................................................................11
Create a config file.................................................................................................................11
Run the initial report................................................................................................................11
Review recommended actions...................................................................................................12
Download patches and make a depot.......................................................................................12
Read the readBeforeInstall.txt file and take appropriate actions.....................................................13
Install the depot......................................................................................................................13
Generate a second report........................................................................................................13
Put appropriate actions in the ignore file....................................................................................13
4 Creating and interpreting reports................................................................14
Analysis................................................................................................................................14
Report overview......................................................................................................................15
The HTML report.....................................................................................................................15
The Assessment Profile.............................................................................................................16
The Action report....................................................................................................................17
Patch bundles....................................................................................................................17
Patches.............................................................................................................................17
Manual actions..................................................................................................................18
The Issue report......................................................................................................................19
Latest Quality Pack bundle (QPK).........................................................................................19
Security bulletins (SEC).......................................................................................................19
Patches that fix critical issues (CRIT)......................................................................................20
Patches with warnings (PW)................................................................................................20
Specific patch (PATCH), and patch or recommended successor (CHAIN)...................................20
Automatically invoked analyzers..........................................................................................20
The Detail report.....................................................................................................................21
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