Software Distributor Administration Guide HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, and 11i v3 (5900-2488, September 2012)

swacl A SD-UX command that allows you to modify Access Control List permissions that provide software
security.
swadm In SD-UX security, the default user identification group.
swagent The SD-UX agent program that makes changes to depots and roots. It is directed by the controller
and scheduled by the daemon
swagentd The SD-UX daemon that provides various services, including: initiation of communication between
the controller and agent; serving one or more depots to multiple requesting agents on remote
hosts.
swask A SD-UX command that lets you run an interactive request script to get a response from the user.
Request scripts can also be run by the swconfig and swinstall commands.
swconfig A SD-UX command that configures previously installed software and make the software ready
for use.
swcopy A SD-UX command that copies software from a software source to a depot or from one depot to
another. The swcopy command can add products to an existing depot, replace products already
on a depot, or create a new depot.
swgettools A SD-UX command used in previous HP-UX releases to install the new SW-DIST product from
media. This command has been replaced by install-sd and update-ux.
swinstall A SD-UX command that installs software. swinstall may also perform software configuration.
swlist A SD-UX command that lists software objects, their attributes, and their organization. It lists both
installed software and software contained within a depot.
swlock A file that contains the read or write access to software objects and ACLs.
swmodify A SD-UX command that lets you change information in the installed products database or depot
catalog files.
swpackage A SD-UX command that uses a product specification file (PSF) to organize software products and
package them into a depot. The depot can be accessed directly by SD-UX commands or mastered
onto CD-ROM or tape.
swreg A SD-UX command used to register or unregister depots.
swremove A SD-UX command that removes previously installed software or removes packaged software
from a depot.
swverify A SD-UX command that verifies installed software or depot software for correctness and
completeness.
Systems Computers, either stand-alone or networked to other computers. See local host.
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Tag In packaging, a keyword that defines the distribution tag or software object’s name attribute for
the destination depot (media).
Tape Depot A software depot stored in a tar (tape archive) format. Within the tape depot, the archive, directory
and file entries are organized using the same structure as any other SD-UX 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.
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