HP-UX Software Assistant Release Notes (December 2011)

Version C.02.11
12/2008 Web Release and 3/2009 Media Release
• SWA now allows you to select the analyzers to be used when generating reports within HP
SIM
• Java™ SE6 is now supported
Version C.02.00
10/2008 Web Release
• Support for multisystem analysis in HP SIM for a selected set of features including catalog
download, inventory creation, analysis, and report generation
• Summary table of system issues showing total issues by analyzer type within HP SIM
• Improved HP-UX Software Assistant Administration Guide
Version C.01.05
9/2008 Web Release
• Integration with HP SIM - Software Assistant replaced Security Patch Check in HP SIM. Software
Assistant and associated tasks, logs, etc., appear in the HP SIM menus instead of Security
Patch Check and its associated tasks, logs, etc.
• Improved the HTML report
• Improved HP-UX Software Assistant Administration Guide
Version C.01.04
3/2008 Media Release
• Added support for customer-managed inventory files.
• Recalculated date for leap years (QXCR1000760488).
• Obsolescence of security_patch_check.
In order to eliminate redundant tools and simplify customer environments, HP is obsoleting the
security_patch_check(1M) tool in 2009. The Software Assistant utility and its corresponding
catalog replace and expand the capabilities provided by security_patch_check.
The March 2008 release of security_patch_check will initially use its corresponding
security_catalog and provide full legacy support. On November 1st, 2008, this version
of security_patch_check will begin invoking Software Assistant. The command
security_patch_check -m will continue to support the old report format by invoking an
equivalent swa-report(1M) command.
On a date after November 1st, 2008, the catalog file required for older versions of
security_patch_check will no longer be available. All users should plan on converting
to swa(1M) before the November 1st, 2008 date.
• Improved HP-UX Software Assistant Administration Guide.
• Improved manpages.
6 SWA Important Changes