5.5 PatchiX Training

Figure 3-13. HP Patch/iX provides a list of patches
When qualification is complete a list of the available patches will be displayed in a
scrollable Selection Screen along with information about the patch status. HP Patch/iX
will display the following information about each patch (as in Figure 3-13 above):
• Patch ID - An 8 character ID, where the first three characters identifies the
product type, the next 5 characters are a unique identifier for the patch, and the
last character is the version character for the patch. There can be multiple versions
for a patch, and the newest version will have the highest alphabetic character (i.e.
B is a newer version of the A patch).
• Qualified - This field tells you weather the patch qualifies for installation on your
system.
• Status - This field tells you the current status of the patch. The most common
status values for a patch are General Release (GR) and Beta (BT).
• Flags - This field has two values separated by a comma. The first value is the
patch recommendation, the second value is the patch criticality. Definitions for
these values will be described later in the Viewing Detailed Patch Information
section.
• Update - This field tells you whether or not an update from CSLT is required to
install the patch. A value of Yes means that the patch requires a system update
from the patch installation tape created by HP Patch/iX.
• Origin - This field tells you weather the patch came from the PowerPatch tape or
from a reactive patch tape.