HP-UX 11i June 2001 Release Notes

Installation

Software Distributor (SD-UX) (new at 11i original release)

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Software Distributor (SD-UX) (new at 11i

original release)

Many changes have been implemented in Software Distributor since

11.0. The following sections detail the changes. Also see Chapter 12 for

additional Software Distributor information.

Multiple Target Management Capabilities Enabled

As part of the ServiceControl Manager integration, capabilities

previously only available through the OpenView Software Distributor

version of SD-UX have been enabled. This includes the ability to

distribute software to multiple remote targets (individually or together).

This also includes the job management capabilities for scheduling jobs

and viewing (local or remote) agent logﬁles.

POSIX Enhancements and Exceptions

Software Distributor has been enhanced to meet the IEEE Std

1387.2-1995 standard (also referred to as POSIX 7.2). This affects the

behavior of the command line interface and the number of options. See

/usr/lib/sw/sys.defaults for a complete list of supported options,

their descriptions, and default values.

Exceptions to the POSIX 7.2 standard are:

• ﬁlesets are not allowed to span media

• swcopy has not been modiﬁed to copy to tape (swpackage can be used

for this)

• user interaction for tape changes is not handled in the command line

of SD-UX

The only known exception to the distributed option of the POSIX 7.2

standard is:

• swmodify cannot be run against distributed systems