Create or Add to a Fix Image Based on an Inventory File
1. Go to the offline machine that has the installation directory on which you want to base the inventory file.
2. Start Update Manager and then choose to Proceed to Update Manager.
3. Choose to Create inventory. Specify the full path to the directory in which to generate an inventory file that will list the operating system, the products in the specified installation directory, and the fixes that are already installed on those products. Update Manager names the inventory file operating_systemmachine_namesuite_releaseyyyymmdd_hhmmss.
4. Copy the inventory file to an online machine.
5. On the online machine, start Update Manager, and then choose to Create or add to an image.
6. Choose to create a complete image containing both Update Manager and product fixes and specify the directory and file name to use for the image file. Also choose the operating system on which you will run Update Manager and create the image. The operating system must be the same as the machine on which you generated the inventory file.
The table below lists the values for the supported operating systems.
Value | Operating System |
AIX | IBM AIX |
OSX | Apple Mac OS X |
HP11IT | HP HP-UX Intel Itanium 2 |
HP11 | HP HP-UX PA-RISC |
LNXS390X | Linux RHEL and SLES IBM System z |
LNX | Linux RHEL and SLES x86 |
LNXAMD64 | Linux RHEL and SLES x86-64 (EM64T, AMD64) |
WNT | Microsoft Windows x86 |
W64 | Microsoft Windows x86-64 (EM64T, AMD64) |
SOL | Oracle Solaris SPARC |
SOLAMD64 | Oracle Solaris x86-64 (EM64T, AMD Opteron) |
7. Select Choose from: Inventory file and specify the inventory file name.
8. Provide your Empower user name and Password.
9. Select Next. Update Manager displays the fix selection tree. The tree lists the products in the inventory file and the fixes that are already installed on those products with the word (Installed). If you are adding to an existing image, the tree shows the fixes that are already in the image, selected.
10. Select the fixes to add to the image and select Next. Update Manager lists the fixes you selected. If there are other fixes that are required by the fixes you selected, and products to which the fixes apply exist in the specified installation directory, Update Manager lists those fixes as well.
Note: If products to which required fixes apply do not exist in the specified installation directory, Update Manager will list those fixes at the end of the installation.
11. Select Next. Update Manager downloads the fixes into the image.
12. Copy the image to the machines on which you want to install fixes.