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cerupdate(1) cerupdate(1)
NAME
cerupdate - update the Common Error Repository (CER) with error metadata supplied by HP, Indepen-
dent Hardware Vendors (IHV), and Independent Software Vendors (ISV). CER is a huge database, which
is a part of Error Management Technology (EMT). To use the
cerupdate command, users must have
administrative privileges.
SYNOPSIS
/opt/sfm/bin/cerupdate -d
extract-dir-path [
-t
logfile ][-l trace-level ] -p public-key [-h]
DESCRIPTION
To use this command, users must have administrative privileges.
All Independent Hardware Vendors (IHV) and Independent Software Vendors (ISV) use the DesCompiler
tool provided by EMT to create extracts. These extracts include information about errors generated on an
HP-UX 11iv3 system. Users can use the
cerupdate
command to upload the extracts created by HP,
ISVs, and IHVs to the Common Error Repository (CER). However, to upload these extracts, the IHVs and
the ISVs must be registered with EMT.
Options
The following options are used with the
cerupdate
command:
-d extract-dir-path
Specifies the path of the directory where the extract files are located. The directory must
contain an index.txt file with the names of the extracts that must be uploaded to the CER.
The
-d option is mandatory.
-p decryption-key
Specifies the key that the cerupdate command will use to decrypt the extract files.
Configuration and post-installation scripts that invoke the
cerupdate command must
pass the correct decryption key.
IHVs and ISVs can obtain the encryption and the decryption keys by registering with
EMT.
The
-p option is optional and is case-sensitive.
-t log-file-name
Specifies the log file. If the -t option is not specified, the
cerupdate command uses the
log file specified in
/var/opt/sfm/conf/cerupdate.conf
, which is the cerup-
date configuration file. Changes made to an existing log file will overwrite the contents
of the file.
-l trace-level Specifies the trace level to be used for logging. Following lists the trace levels that are
supported in the ascending order of severity:
Trace
Information
Error
The default trace-level is Information.
The
cerupdate command logs all messages related to trace-level and above to the log
file specified by the -l option. If the -l option is not specified, the cerupdate com-
mand uses the option specified in the configuration file. The trace level strings are case-
insensitive.
-h Displays information on how to use the cerupdate command, like a help option.
FILES
/opt/sfm/bin/cerupdate
This is a binary file that is used for updating the CER.
/var/opt/sfm/conf/cerupdate.conf
This is a configuration file that is used to configure the trace levels.
AUTHOR
cerupdate was developed by HP.
HP-UX 11i Version 3: March 2011 − 1 − Hewlett-Packard Company 1