Software Distributor Administration Guide for HP-UX 11i

Glossary
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format depot.) Tape depots such as cartridge
tapes, DAT and 9-track tape are referred to
by the file system path to the tape drive’s
device file.
Tape Media Software media that uses tar
to store SD-UX software products and
control files. It usually resides on a serial
media such as a DDS, cartridge, nine-track,
or other tape, though it can also be a regular
file that contains the tar archive. Within the
tar archive, directory and file entries are
organized using the same structure as any
other depot.
Tape Source See tape depot.
Target Any system on which software is to
be installed or managed with SD-UX. There
are typically multiple targets on a network,
identified by system name, network address,
user name, or by a user group. Targets can
contain a primary root, an alternate root, or
depots. A target may also be the object of
remote operations.
Target Group Most SD-UX commands let
you use the
-t
target_file option to read a list of
previously defined target selections as
operands for the command. You can also
read or save target group files from the GUI
programs when remote operations are
enabled.
Target Selection A group of systems or
software objects that you have selected as
targets for an operation. You can save these
selections for later re-use. See target group.
TUI Terminal user interface. A
character-based display with windows and
pull-down menus that works on ASCII
terminals. The TUI uses the keyboard to
navigate (no mouse). See also Command
Line User Interface and Graphical User
Interface.
TUI See Terminal User Interface.
Title A one-line, full name attribute that
identifies the product with a title.
U
UDP/IP User Datagram Protocol.
Comparable with TCP/IP, but runs
connections less and is intended to be used
in more reliable network environments
(LAN).
Uname Attribute When a target is
contacted for a software management
operation, the system’s four uname
attributes (operating system name, release,
version and hardware machine type) are
obtained. Used to determine software
compatibility with the proposed host.
Unconfigure Script An optional script
that undoes the configuration done by the
configure script. Unconfigure scripts are
associated with filesets and are
automatically executed by swremove before
the removal of filesets begins. You can also
run unconfigure scripts with swconfig.
Unregister Using the swreg command to
remove the registration of a depot. This
makes the depot unavailable to network
access.
Update Overwriting software objects
already installed on the system and
replacing them with new objects.