5.5 PatchiX Training

Qualifying Patches For Your System
The next step in the patch management process is to qualify the set of patches for your
system.
Figure 3-10. HP Patch/iX Main Menu before qualifying patches.
Figure 3-10 (above) shows the HP Patch/iX screen after the Select Activities step is
complete, and before the Qualify Patches step is started. Highlight the Qualify Patches
menu item and press the [Return] Key. The first step in the qualification process is what
we call a full qualification. A full qualification does the following:
• Analyzes each patch to make sure that all dependent patches are present on the
system.
• Analyzes each patch to make sure there isn't already a newer patch on the system.
• Analyzes each patch that has multiple versions present in the patch set, and only
qualifies the newest version.
• Analyzes each patch to determine what family of patches the patch belongs to and
only qualifies the newest member of the family. The supersedes tree discussed
later will show you how to analyze a patch family.
• Analyze each patch to make sure that the patch isn't already installed. Note: in
some cases patches are reinstalled. See What is Patch-on-Patch ?.