HP-UX 11i June 2004 Release Notes

Installation
Software Distributor
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Software Distributor
Software Distributor (SD) is the HP-UX administration tool set used to deliver and
maintain HP-UX operating systems and layered software applications. Delivered as part
of HP-UX, SD can help you:
• Manage your OS, patches, and application software on HP-UX systems.
• Organize, standardize, and distribute software to your customers.
• Handle complex delivery challenges such as testing complete solutions for the
commercial and technical desktop.
For more information about SD, visit http://software.hp.com/SD_AT_HP/.
updated for June
2004
Software Distributor has been updated to a new version to reflect defect fixes only. (Since
the initial release of HP-UX 11i v1, SD has been updated periodically to incorporate
defect fixes.)
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
“Known Compatibility Exceptions from HP-UX 11.0 to 11i” on page 287.)
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.