HP-UX Software Assistant Frequently Asked Questions

Q4:IfIdon’thaveaninternetconnectioncanIuseSWA?

A4:Systemswithoutanyinternetconnectionscanbeanalyzedbymovingfiles.

InventoryfilescanbemovedtoanHP‐UXsystemwithinternetaccessoruploaded

totheITRCPatchDatabaseforanalysis.Alternatively,theSWAcatalogfilecanbe

downloadedonasystemwithaccessandtransferredtotheHP‐UXsystemusing

media.

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Q5:Whatisthecheck_crloptionfor?

A5:ThecatalogfileisintendedtobedownloadedviaasecureHTTPSconnection.

Theseconnectionsrelyonthevalidityofcertificatesissuedbyacertificate

authority(CA).SWAverifiesthesecertificatesremainvalidwhenperforming

catalogdownloads.Attimes,thiscertificatecheckitselfmayfail.Thecheck_crl

optionallowsthisspecificchecktobedisabled.

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CommandLineOptions

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Q1:HowcanIeasilyfindthecommandlineoptions?

A1:Theoption“‐?”maybeusedatanylevelofthecommandline.Use“swa‐?”tolist

thesupportedmajormodes,“swareport‐?”willlisttheoptionsavailabletothe

reportmajormode,and“swaget–x‐?”willlisttheextendedoptionavailableto

thegetmajormode.Eachswamajormodehasadedicatedmanpage.References

tothesepagescanbefoundinthe“SeeAlso”sectionofthemainswa(1m)page.

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Q2:CanIperformapartialSWAoperation?

A2:Thereportandgetmajormodesperformanumberofactionssuchasdownloading

anup‐to‐datecatalogorcopyingpatchesintoadepot.Thestepmajormode

allowsaccesstotheindividualoperationsthemselves.Toprintanissuereportfor

thelastrunanalysis,runthecommand:

#swastepreport–rissue

Toforceadownloadofthecatalog,runthecommand:

#swastepcatalog–xcatalog_max_age=0

Fulldetailscanbefoundintheswa‐step(1M)manpage.

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Q3:CanIspecifymoretha

noneignorefileonthecommandline?

A3:Therecanonlybeasingleuseoftheignorefileoption,butmultiplefilescanbe

specifiedasalist:

#swareport–xignore_file=”fileAdirB/fileB/home/me/myfile”

Whenanignorefilelistisexplicitlyset,thedefaultignorefile“~/.swa/ignore”is

notincluded.Ifneeded,itshouldbeaddedtothespecifiedlist.

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