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swa(1M) swa(1M)

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

To get patches from HP that are recommended in the default analysis ﬁle (that is, from the previous

swa

report

command) and place the results into the new depot,

mydepot:

swa get -t mydepot

To add newly recommended patches into the existing depot,

mydepot, only downloading patches from HP

that are neither in

mydepot nor previously downloaded:

swa get -t mydepot -x allow_existing_depot=true

To preview which patches need to be downloaded from HP and added to an existing depot without actually

doing the work, and with increased verbosity:

swa get -p -v -t mydepot -x allow_existing_depot=true

To remove all cached inventory, catalog, and analysis information in the default location:

swa clean usercache

To remove all cached downloaded software in the default location:

swa clean swcache

To preview the removal of all cached downloaded software in the default location:

swa clean swcache -p

To remove all cached inventory, catalog, analysis, and downloaded software in speciﬁed locations:

swa clean all -x user_dir=˜/myusercache -x swcache=/my/cache

AUTHOR

swa was developed by HP.

FILES

/etc/opt/swa/swa.conf

System-wide Software Assistant conﬁguration ﬁle.

/etc/opt/swa/swa.conf.template

Template ﬁle that documents each -x option.

$HOME/.swa.conf Per-user Software Assistant conﬁguration ﬁle.

/var/opt/swa/swa.log

Default log ﬁle location for root users. For users

without write permissions to the default log location,

swa.log ﬁle is created under the directory

speciﬁed by the user_dir extended option.

download.contents Lists all ﬁles downloaded from HP stored within the

swcache, a directory speciﬁed by the swcache

extended option.

readBeforeInstall.txt Lists special installation instructions and other depen-

dencies for the patches in the depot. Located in the

root directory of the target depot.

ignore Lists issue IDs to be ignored (for example, they are

completed or not applicable). Supports comments and

regular expressions. See regexp(5).