HP XC System Software Installation Guide Version 3.1

c. Click on the Linux for High Performance Computing splash screen to close it.
d. Open a terminal window from the Gnome desktop:
i. From the Applications menu, select the System Tools menu.
ii. Scroll down the list of options, and select Terminal to open a terminal window.
3.5 Task 4: Install Patches or RPM Updates
For each supported version of the HP XC System Software, HP releases all Linux security updates and
HP XC software patches on the HP IT Resource Center (ITRC) Web site.
You are required to download and install all available patches and updated RPM packages now before
the system is configured so that the software updates are propagated to all nodes during the initial image
synchronization.
See the following sources to determine if additional software packages (patches) are available for this
release:
• The HP XC System Software Release Notes
Because the HP XC System Software Release Notes are updated periodically, they are only available on
line at:
http://www.docs.hp.com/en/highperfcomp.html
• The HP IT Resource Center (ITRC) Web site
http://www.itrc.hp.com/
“Download and Install Patches” (page 52) describes how to download HP XC patches from this Web
site, if they are available
Proceed to “Task 5: Run the discover Command to Discover System Components” (page 54) when you
are finished installing patches.
3.5.1 Download and Install Patches
Follow this procedure to download and install HP XC patches from the ITRC Web site:
1. Create a temporary patch download directory on the head node. You can name this temporary
directory anything you want; this procedure creates a directory called /home/patches:
# mkdir /home/patches
IMPORTANT: Although HP has no restrictions about where you download patches, do not choose
a directory that is included in the golden image because you do not want to distribute the actual RPM
files to all client nodes. The HP XC System Software Administration Guide provides a list of directories
that are included in the golden image; do not save patches in these directories.
If necessary, you can exclude specific files from the golden image if they are not appropriate for
distribution to all client nodes.
The example uses /home because it is not included in the golden image.
2. Register as an Americas/Asia Pacific or European customer at the following HP remote server:
http://www.itrc.hp.com/
NOTE: Because this is a newly installed system, set up the proxies on the Web browser to access
this Web site.
After supplying information about yourself and your corporation, an ITRC user ID is assigned to you;
you supply your own password. Remember this user ID and password because you must use it
whenever you download a patch.
3. From the registration confirmation window, select the option to go directly to the ITRC home page.
4. From the IT Resource Center home page, select patch/firmware database from the maintenance
and support (hp products) list.
52 Configuring and Imaging the System