This guide addresses two basic patch management
strategies. Most customers use a combination of both strategies:
- Proactive Patching
Patching regularly to
avoid problems
- Reactive Patching
Patching after a problem
occurs
No matter what strategy or combination of strategies
you adopt, keep in mind that any change to a
system, including change incurred during the process of patch management,
risks the introduction of new problems to a system. This guide discusses
some steps that you can take to mitigate the risk associated with
patching systems.
How to Get Patches |
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HP provides numerous ways to acquire patches,
ensuring that system administrators with different goals and different
levels of expertise can find a patch source to fit their needs. You
can obtain patches individually or in groups of related patches known
as patch bundles.
This guide discusses the following HP-UX patch
sources:
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