HP-UX Software Assistant Reference (November, 2010)

To display swa report usage information:

swa report -?

To display usage and list all swa report extended options:

swa report -x -?

To run swa report using the options specified in the file ./myconfig:

swa report -X ./myconfig

To inventory the local system, analyze it against an HP-supplied catalog (of known software and

issues) for newer Quality Pack patch bundles, security issues, and critical patch warnings, and

then generate a default standard output Action report:

swa report

To create a report for security issues (SEC) for a remote system inventory gathered with Secure

Shell, and running ssh in batchmode to avoid being prompted for user input:

swa report -a SEC -s ssh://user@remotesystem \

-x ssh_options='-o batchmode=yes'

To create a detailed report for remotesystem, limited in scope to Quality Pack patch bundle analysis

(QPK) and installed, active patches with critical warnings (PCW). This example uses the swlist

networking protocol, which is not integrity protected.

swa report -a QPK -a PCW -s remotesystem -r detail

To do the same task as the previous example, using the extended option equivalents (which can

be specified on the command line, in a user or system configuration file, or in an extended options

file):

swa report -x analyzers='QPK PCW' \

-x inventory_source=remotesystem -x stdout_report_type=detail

To generate a report and place the analysis results in the ~/firstanalysis.xml file (for later

use by swa get):

swa report -x analysis_file=~/firstanalysis.xml

To generate a report, updating the catalog of HP software if it is more than 48 hours old:

swa report -x catalog_max_age=48

To generate a report using a specified catalog of HP software without updating that catalog:

swa report -x catalog=~/mycatalog.xml -x catalog_max_age=-1

To generate a report always updating the catalog of HP software:

swa report -x catalog_max_age=0

AUTHOR

swa was developed by HP.

FILES

Many of the following files have characteristics that may be modified by extended options, including

the location and name. For more information, see swa-report(1M), swa-get(1M), swa-step(1M),

and swa-clean(1M).

$HOME/.swa.conf The per-user SWA configuration file. This file takes

precedence over the system-wide SWA configuration file.

$HOME/.swa/cache/

swa_catalog.xml

An HP-supplied catalog file from the ITRC website that

contains known security issues and other defects along with

their solutions. This file is downloaded with the command

swa report or swa step catalog.