HP VPN Firewall Appliances System Management and Maintenance Configuration Guide

41
Activating patches
Activating a patch changes its state to ACTIVE. An ACTIVE patch runs in memory until a reboot occurs.
To have a patch continue to run after a reboot, you must change its state to RUNNING.
To activate patches:
Ste
p
Command
1. Enter system view.
system-view
2. Activate patches.
patch active [ patch-number ]
Confirming ACTIVE patches
To have an ACTIVE patch continue to run after a reboot, perform the task in this section.
After you confirm an ACTIVE patch, its state changes to RUNNING and persists after a reboot.
To confirm ACTIVE patches:
Ste
p
Command
1. Enter system view.
system-view
2. Confirm ACTIVE patches.
patch run [ patch-number ]
Uninstalling a patch step by step
To uninstall a patch step by step, first stop running the patch and then remove it from the patch memory
area.
Stopping running patches
When you stop running a patch, the patch state becomes DEACTIVE, and the system runs the way it did
before it was installed with the patch.
To stop running patches:
Ste
p
Command
1. Enter system view.
system-view
2. Stop running patches.
patch deactive [ patch-number ]
Removing patches from the patch memory area
After being removed from the patch memory area, a patch is still retained in IDLE state in the storage
medium. The system runs the way it did before it was installed with the patch.
HP recommends that you uninstall all patches by using the undo patch install command.
To remove patches from the patch memory area:
Ste
p
Command
1. Enter system view.
system-view
2. Remove patches from the patch memory area.
patch delete [ patch-number ]