For patch analysis of HP-UX systems, the HPE support team need the output of the swainv script. Here I have shown the process to run and collect the output of swainv script.

HP-UX Patch Assessment Using swainv

• Login HP-UX system as a superuser.
• First run the whereis swainv command to check whether swainv is installed or not, here it is installed.

  # whereis swainv
  swainv: /opt/swa/lbin/swainv

• Run the command /opt/swa/lbin/swainv or simply swainv. It will create an XML file in the current directory.

  # /opt/swa/lbin/swainv
  Copyright (c) Hewlett-Packard 2005-2006.  All rights reserved.
  
    swainv revision: 4.01
  
  This script lists the patches, products, bundles, and filesets found
  in a system or depot and packages the information in a file for transfer
  to the ITRC or the Response Center.
  
         * Listing Filesets
         * Listing Products
         * Listing Bundles
         * Inventory written to inventory.xml

• Check the current directory for inventory.xml file and send this XML file to the HPE support team for patch analysis.

  # ls -l
  total 2144
  -rw-r--r--   1 root       sys        1022630 Oct 10 17:18 inventory.xml

Last Updated: August 26, 2020