HP XC System Software Installation Guide Version 4.0

9.7 Installing Patches and Reinstalling Additional Software
Follow this procedure to install patches and reinstall additional software on the upgraded system
before the golden image is propagated to all client nodes:
1. Install all patches from the HP IT Resource Center (ITRC) website that might be available
for HP XC Version 4.0. Section 3.5.1 (page 60) describes how to download HP XC patches
from this website.
IMPORTANT: You might have to reboot the head node if a patch to the kernel is required,
and the patch README file provides instructions. You must stop all user applications before
rebooting the head node.
It is also important to download patches to a directory that is not included in the golden
image, as described in Section 3.5.1 (page 60).
2. If the system is installed with the SFS client software, install all SFS client patches.
3. If a new kernel is supplied in a patch, you must rebuild kernel-dependent modules. See the
HP XC System Software Administration Guide for more information about rebuilding
kernel-dependent modules.
4. Reinstall or upgrade any HP, open source, or third-party vendor software products that you
specifically installed (for example, debuggers, compilers, and so on) on the HP XC system.
• Reinstall SFS server or client software RPMs (Do not perform an SFS upgrade. A
reinstallation is required). See the HP SFS Client Installation and User Guide for details.
• To upgrade or reinstall HP Scalable Visualization Array (SVA) Version 2.1.3 (which is
the SVA release that is compatible with HP XC System Software Version 4.0), follow
the instructions in Section 2.4.2 (page 48) to run the SVA installation script. Then,
optionally, follow the instructions in Section 5.7.3 (page 86) to install HP Remote
Graphics Software (RGS) and load the RGE module.
When you upgrade SVA, do not rerun the svaconfigure command to re-create the
SVA site configuration file.
5. If you removed Serviceguard RPMs as described in Section 9.3 (page 141), install the RPMs
again:
# rpm -ivh pidentd-{version}
# rpm -ivh qs-A.{version}.rhel{version}
# rpm -ivh serviceguard-{version}.rhel{version}
6. You might need to upgrade firmware according to the Master Firmware Tables for this release:
http://www.docs.hp.com/en/linuxhpc.html
7. If you want to configure eligible services for improved availability, you must install and
configure an availability tool now.
See Section 1.9 (page 26), which describes what improved availability offers, how it is
achieved, the supported availability tools, and the services that are eligible for improved
availability to determine if this is a feature you want to enable.
Proceed to Section 9.8 (page 146).
9.8 Manually Merging File Customizations
Follow this procedure to manually merge customizations you might have made to system
configuration files in the previous release. Customizations are not automatically merged into
the new version of the configuration files, and the contents of the new version of the file might
have changed in the new release:
1. Use the method of your choice to open and search the log files for HP XC configuration files
that have an .rpmsave or an .rpmnew extension appended to them. These files contain
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