Software Distributor Administration Guide HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, and 11i v3 (5900-2561, March 2013)

About This Document

This guide describes using Software Distributor (SD) to deliver, manage and maintain HP-UX

operating systems and layered software applications. This guide is written for experienced HP-UX

system administrators who are responsible for setting up and maintaining HP-UX servers and

workstations.

Intended Audience

This guide is written for the following types of users and administrators:

• Stand-alone HP-UX users, primarily concerned with quick and easy access to the right software

management tools to get their normal work done. This may include software installation,

viewing, or removal and basic depot management.

• HP-UX system administrators, primarily concerned with keeping other users up and running.

Additional software management tasks may include more complex depot management, security,

patch management, remote operations, and performance management.

• Software packagers, primarily concerned with packaging software into SD-usable format and

writing scripts that may accompany the packaged software.

HP-UX 11i Release Names and Release Identifiers

Each HP-UX 11i release has an associated release name and release identifier. The following table

shows the releases available for HP-UX 11i.

Table 1 HP-UX 11i Releases

Supported Processor ArchitectureRelease IdentifierRelease Name

PA-RISCB.11.11HP-UX 11i v1

Intel® Itanium®

PA-RISC

B.11.23HP-UX 11i v2

Intel® Itanium®

PA-RISC

B.11.31HP-UX 11i v3

PA-RISC is supported on HP-UX 11i v2 starting with the September 2004 release.

The uname(1) command with the -r option returns the release identifier.

You can also determine the update release date and the Operating Environment by entering the

following:

# swlist | grep HPUX11i

The resulting output will list the current release identifier, update release date, and Operating

Environment. For example:

HPUX11i-TCOE B.11.23.0512 HP-UX Technical

Computing Operating Environment Component

The above revision string represents the following:

B.11.23 = HP-UX 11i v2

0512 = December 2005 Update Release

Typographic Conventions

We use the following typographical conventions.

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