Software Distributor Administration Guide for HP-UX 11i

Glossary
SW-DIST
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Shared Secrets File In SD-UX security, a
file containing the passwords used to encrypt
and decrypt distributed communications for
added security.
Single Point Administration (SPA) The
ability to simultaneously distribute to,
manage, or monitor multiple remote targets
from a single controller system. See remote
management.
Software depot An SD-UX format
structure that contains one or more software
products that can be installed on other
systems or copied to other depots.
Software file An input file of previously
defined software selections to be used as
operands for a command. You specify a
software file with the
-f
software_file command line option.
Software group A group of software
selections read or saved from the GUI
programs.
Software object The objects packaged,
distributed, installed, or managed by
SD-UX. A software object may be a file,
fileset, bundle, or product. Most operations
are performed on
filesets .
Software selection A group of
software objects that you have selected for
an operation. You can save these software
selections for later re-use. See software
group.
Software Selection Window A GUI
window that lets you select the software files
you want to install, copy, or remove.
Software source A depot used as the
source of a swinstall or swcopy operation.
Source See software source.
SPA See Single Point Administration.
Staging A way of setting up intermediate
depots that are local to each group of targets
on local area networks. This can reduce the
amount of network traffic.
Staged installation See staging.
State An attribute that indicates the
current state of the fileset. During
installation, software is transitioned through
the following states: non-existent, transient,
installed, and configured. During removal,
software is transitioned through these
states: configured, installed, transient, and
non-existent. If a task fails during a
transient state, the state is set to corrupt.
Subproducts An optional grouping of
filesets, used to partition a product that
contains many filesets or to offer the user
different views of the filesets.
Superseded The state in which a patch was
applied but was then replaced by a
superseding patch. Other patch states
include applied and committed.
Superseding patch A patch that
supersedes all previous patches to a given
fileset.
SW-DIST A software product that provides
all of the SD-UX functionality. SW-DIST is
included on your HP-UX 11i media. If
SW-DIST is damaged, missing, or corrupted
on your system, you cannot install or copy
any HP-UX software that is packaged in the
SD-UX format, including a newer SW-DIST
product. You can re-install SD-UX with the
install-sd command.