Software Distributor Administration Guide for HP-UX 11i

Glossary
Request script
Glossary500
Request script An interactive control
script that gets a response from the user. A
request script prompts the user for a
response, reads the user’s answer, and stores
the results in a response file. Request scripts
can be run by the swask, swconfig, and
swinstall commands.
Response file A file that is generated by an
interactive request script and contains the
user’s response.
Revision This keyword defines the
“revision” attribute for the product object.
The revision information (release number,
version) for the product.
Root The root directory of a system (/). See
Root Directory.
Root Directory The directory on a target
host in which all the files of the selected
products will be installed. The default (/),
can be changed to install into a directory
that will eventually act as the root to
another system. See Alternate Root
Directory.
RPC Remote Procedure Call. DCE
technology for distributed communications
and data transfer.
S
sd The command that invokes the Job
Browser, a GUI program that lets you create,
monitor, schedule, and delete jobs. The swjob
command lets you monitor jobs from the
command line. You can also activate the Job
Browser with the swjob -i command.
SD format See SD-UX format.
SD-UX format The format and syntax of
SD-UX software in depots. See
Layout_version.
Secret In SD-UX security, a password used
to verify the authenticity of the caller’s host.
SD-UX manages sets of hosts by restricting
and changing the default secret on all
controller and target hosts in the network.
See shared secrets file.
Security Controlling access to software
objects. In SD-UX, security is achieved by a
combination of Access Control Lists (ACLs)
associated with objects and commands, and
the security inherent in the file system
permissions on which the software is stored.
See Access Control List.
Selection, Selection Phase The first
phase of a software installation, copy,
remove, or verify operation, during which
the user selects the software products to be
installed, copied, or removed from the host.
Server A system on the network that acts as
a software source for other systems on the
network.
ServiceControl Manager (SCM) An HP
program that permits central management
of many system administration functions.
You can run SD-UX from SCM.
Session/Session File Each invocation of a
SD-UX command defines a session. Most SD
commands let you use the
-C
session_file option to save command
options, source information, software
selections, and host selections and re-use
this information with the
-S
session_file option. You can also save
and re-use session information from the GUI
programs.