4.9 Viewing Patches

Overview

On the HP Patch/iX Main menu, View Patches is the second option. It is an optional step for patch installation.

The list of patches displayed in the View Patches screen varies depending upon the filter selected. The default View Patches filter displays installed patches. The current View Patches filter setting is displayed at the top right corner of the View Patches window. There are three filters:

Installed Patches—are already on the system.
Available Patches—are on the PowerPatch or Reactive patch tapes. From this filter you can view detailed information about each patch.
Available Products—are the products on the SUBSYS tape.

Viewing Patches (optional)

To view the list of patches:

From the Main menu, highlight View Patches and press [Return].
It displays the View Patches screen.
If this is the first time you are using HP Patch/iX, there will not be any patch history. The screen will display the message:
No patches match this filter.
To change the View Patches filter from the View Patches screen, press [F5] Previous Filter or [F6] Next Filter (or enter the number that corresponds to the filter view).
The View Patches screen displays showing Patch ID, Origin, Date, and Installed By columns. If you have not completed the Select Activities portion of the HP Patch/iX process, the screen will be blank.

To display detailed patch information:

From the View Patches screen, Available Patches filter, highlight the patch and press [Return].
The Patch Detail Summary screen displays.
Press [F5] Previous View or [F6] Next View (or press the number on the keyboard that corresponds to the filter view).
It displays the selected detailed information about the selected patch.
Press [F2] Previous Patch or [F3] Next Patch (or Tab and Shift-Tab) to scroll through the list of patches from the View Patches list and display the selected detailed information about the selected patch in the View Patch Detail screen.

To return to the Main menu, press [F8] Previous Menu until the Main menu displays.

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4.9 Viewing Patches

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