HP-UX Software Assistant Reference (November, 2010)

R
report A summary of actions to take based on the analysis.
S-T
security bulletin The mechanism used by Hewlett-Packard to announce the presence of potential security issues
and lists actions recommended to resolve the issue.
Security Patch
Check (SPC)
An HP-UX command that analyzes the security bulletin compliance of a system. Most of the
functionality of SPC is superseded by HP-UX Software Assistant. Full support of SPC will end on
11/01/08.
Software Assistant
(SWA)
A command line interface tool that consolidates and simplifies patch management and security
bulletin management on HP-UX systems. The SWA tool is new for HP-UX releases as of January
2007, supersedes Security Patch Check (SPC), and is the HP-recommended utility to use to maintain
currency with HP-published security bulletins for HP-UX software.
step One discrete action of the swa report or swa get command. SWA steps are initiated with
the swa step command. Valid steps are: inventory, catalog, analyze, report,
download, and depot.
supersession chain A series of patches for a software product, beginning with the nonpatched software product and
progressing from the oldest patch to the newest patch. Newer patches completely replace the
older ones. In general, patch numbers increase along a patch supersession chain.
swcache Files containing the software downloaded from the HP ITRC during the swa get or the swa
step download command. These files are stored in the swcache directory.
U-Z
usercache Files created by swa report, such as the inventories of the systems or depots, the catalog, and
the analysis file. These files are stored in the cache subdirectory.
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