Software Distributor Administration Guide for HP-UX 11i

Reliability and Performance
Staging
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• If the target doesn’t have an alternate source, the agent uses the
same depot path used by the controller, but it will apply this path
to its own file system. This lets you do staged installations
without any target configuration at all, by locating the
intermediate depot on each target system at the same file system
location as the master depot (approach 2 above).
Because the swcopy and swinstall steps in a staged installation are
separate, SD-UX cannot enforce consistency between master and
intermediate depots. You must ensure that the software available from
the intermediate depots is consistent with that on the master depot.
If master and intermediate depots are out-of-synch when you perform
the swinstall step, you may encounter errors if software that is on the
master depot is not available from one or more intermediate depots.