HP-UX 11i June 2002 Release Notes

Installation
Software Distributor (SD-UX)
Chapter 8
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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. (For additional Software Distributor information, see also
Chapter 12.)
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. These
include the ability to distribute software to multiple remote targets (individually or
together), as well as 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 as follows:
• Filesets are not allowed to span media.
• The command swcopy has not been modified to copy to tape (swpackage can be used
for this instead).
• 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 that
swmodify cannot be run against distributed systems.
Change in swlist Hides Superseded Patches by Default
In 11.0, swlist shows all installed patches including superseded ones. However, the 11i
default behavior is not to show superseded patches. This can be overcome, returning to
11.0 standard behavior, by setting -x show_superseded_patches=true on the swlist
command line or in the defaults files.
64-bit Capability Determined from System, Not
/etc/.supported_bits
In 11.0, SD-UX reads the /etc/.supported_bits file to map model strings to either
32-, 32/64-, or 64-bit capability. From time to time, synchronization breakdowns between
the model command and the contents of /etc/.supported_bits have created trouble on
64-bit systems.
To prevent synchronization breakdowns, SD-UX in 11i has changed to get the necessary
information directly from the system, rather than using a look-up table.