Software Distributor Administration Guide for HP-UX 11i

Installing Software

Configuring Your Installation (swconfig)

Chapter 284

Analysis takes place on the local host. The configuration phase will not

take place if any errors occur during analysis. Errors in the analysis

phase will only exclude those products that had errors in them. If only

warnings occur, the task continues.

The sequential analysis tasks on the host are:

1. Initiate analysis.

2. Process software selections:

Get information from the Installed Product Database and check for

compatibility.

The system checks that all software is compatible with the host’s

uname attributes. This check is controlled by the

allow_incompatible command option. If it is set to false, the

system produces an error; if set to true, it produces a warning.

3. Check state of versions currently installed:

• If the product is non-existent or corrupt, the task issues an error

that says the product cannot be configured and to use swinstall

to install and configure this product.

• If the versions currently installed are not configured and if the

-u (unconfigure) option is set, the system issues a note that the

selected file or fileset is already unconfigured.

• If the state of versions currently installed is configured, the

check is affected by the reconfigure option. A note saying the

fileset is already configured and will (reconfigure is true) or

will not (reconfigure is false) be reconfigured is issued.

4. Check for configuring a second version:

If the allow_multiple_versions option is set to false, an error is

generated stating that another version of this product is already

configured and the fileset will not be configured. If the option is set to

true, the second version is also configured.

5. Check states of dependencies needed:

• An error or warning is issued if a dependency cannot be met.

This is controlled by the enforce_dependencies option. If

enforce_dependencies is set to true the fileset will not be

configured. If enforce_dependencies is false, the fileset will be

configured anyway.