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

For example, if an agent session failed to start and retry_rpc was set to 9 and

retry_rpc_interval was set to {1 2 4 8 15} to allow long waits to handle transient

network failures, the controller would attempt to recontact the agent after 1 minute for the first

retry, then 2 minutes for the second retry, 4 for the third retry, then 8, then 15 for all additional

retries until nine retries were attempted. With these values, a file load failure could cause the

operation to pause for 90 minutes (1+2+4+8+15+15+15+15+15). If both options were set

to 5, the controller would try to contact the target five times over a 30-minute period.

Applies to swcopy and swinstall.

• return_warning_exitcode=false

This option controls the exit code returned by SD's controller commands. It is applicable only

for a single target operation and is ignored when multiple targets are used. When set to the

default value of false, swinstall returns:

◦ 0 If there were no errors, with or without warnings.

◦ 1 If there were errors.

When set to true, swinstall returns:

◦ 0 If there were no warnings, and no errors.

◦ 1 If there were errors.

◦ 2 If there were warnings but no errors.

• reuse_short_job_numbers=true

When assigning job ID numbers, SD-UX uses numbers less than 10,000. Typically, old jobs

are removed long before job number 9,999 is reached, so the job number quickly rolls over

from 9999 back to 1. When you execute a large numbers of jobs that are not removed before

the ID numbers reach 9,999, SD-UX may have performance delays while it searches for unused

job numbers.

Setting reuse_short_job_numbers to false causes SD-UX to begin using numbers above

10,000. This avoids possible searching delays and lets the job ID numbers increase to 8 digits

(99,999,999) if necessary. (This prevents roll-over from 9999 back to 1, so is usually not

desirable.)