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

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Cache File A file that contains the name and attributes of targets selected by swinstall or swcopy.

Catalog/Catalog

directory

An area within a depot that contains all the information needed by SD-UX to define the

organization and contents of the products stored in the depot. It includes a global INDEX file and

a directory of information for each product version in the depot. It is sometimes referred to as the

catalog directory.

Category This keyword defines the “category” attribute for the product object. It refers to the type of software

being packaged.

CD-ROM Compact Disc-Read Only Memory or a SD-UX depot that resides on a CD-ROM.

Centralized

management

See remote operations.

Checkinstall script An optional, script associated with a product or fileset, executed by swinstall during the analysis

phase. The result returned by the script determines if the fileset can be installed or updated.

Checkremove

script

An optional script associated with a fileset that is executed during the swremove analysis phase.

The result returned by the script determines if the fileset can be removed.

checksum Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC), a computed value that is compared with stored data to tell if

a file has been corrupted during transfer.

CLI Command Line Interface. See Command Line User Interface.

Client Usually refers to diskless server computer. Previous versions of SD-UX supported diskless clients.

CLUI See Command Line User Interface. All SD-UX commands can be run from the command line. See

also GUI, TUI, and IUI.

Codeword To protect software from unauthorized installation, HP (and other vendors) use special codewords

and customer identification numbers to lock the software to a particular owner. These codewords

and customer IDs are provided to you when you purchase the software or receive it as update.

Command line

options

Optional parameters for a command entered with the command itself at the HP-UX command line

prompt. See also default options.

Command Line

User Interface

(CLI/CLUI)

Text-formatted commands and options entered at an HP-UX command line prompt or executed

by a script. SD-UX also has a Graphical User Interface (GUI) and a Terminal User Interface (TUI)

for the sd, swinstall, swcopy, swlist, and swremove commands.

Committed The state in which a patch is applied and rollback files have been deleted. Other patch states

include applied and superseded and committed/superseded.

Committed/superseded

A patch state in which the patch is both committed and superseded.

Compatibility

Filtering

The ability of swinstall to filter the software available from a source according to the host’s uname

attributes. Software products are created to run on specific computer hardware and operating

systems. Many versions of the same products may exist, each of which runs on a different

combination of computer hardware and operating system. By default, swinstall does not allow

selection and installation of incompatible software.

Compatible

Software

A software product that will operate on a given hardware system. Software that passes

compatibility filtering for a local host. Also see Incompatible Software.

Configure Script An optional script associated with a fileset and automatically executed by swinstall (or manually

executed by swconfig) after the installation of filesets is complete.

Container ACL

Template

A special ACL (global_soc_template) that is used to create initial ACLs for depot and roots.