Software Distributor Administration Guide (March 2009)
Table Of Contents
- Software Distributor Administration Guide
- Table of Contents
- About This Document
- 1 Introduction to Software Distributor
- 1.1 SD-UX Overview
- 1.2 SD-UX Concepts
- 1.3 Using the GUI and TUI Commands
- 1.3.1 The Terminal User Interface
- 1.3.2 Starting the GUI/TUI Commands
- 1.3.3 Window Components
- 1.3.4 Opening and closing items in the object list
- 1.3.5 Marking Items in the Object List
- 1.3.6 Preselecting Host Files
- 1.3.7 Software Selection Window
- 1.3.8 Session and File Management—The File Menu
- 1.3.9 Changing Software Views—The View Menu
- 1.3.10 Changing Options and Refreshing the Object List—The Options Menu
- 1.3.11 Performing Actions—The Actions Menu
- 1.3.12 Getting Help—The Help Menu
- 1.3.13 XToolkit Options and Changing Display Fonts
- 1.4 Working from the Command Line
- 2 Installing Software
- 2.1 Installation with swinstall
- 2.1.1 Features and Limitations
- 2.1.2 Installing with the GUI
- 2.1.3 Installing from the Command Line
- 2.1.4 Installation Tasks and Examples
- 2.1.4.1 Updating to HP-UX 11i
- 2.1.4.2 Installing Patches
- 2.1.4.3 Recovering Updated Files
- 2.1.4.4 Installing Software That Requires a System Reboot
- 2.1.4.5 Using Software Codewords and Customer IDs
- 2.1.4.6 Re-installing Software Distributor
- 2.1.4.7 Installing Multiple Versions
- 2.1.4.8 Installing to an Alternate Root
- 2.1.4.9 Compatibility Filtering and Checking
- 2.2 Configuring Your Installation (swconfig)
- 2.3 Verifying Your Installation (swverify)
- 2.1 Installation with swinstall
- 3 Managing Installed Software
- 3.1 Listing Your Software (swlist)
- 3.1.1 swlist Features and Limitations
- 3.1.2 Using the swlist GUI
- 3.1.3 Using the Command Line
- 3.1.4 Software Listing Tasks and Examples
- 3.2 Modifying the IPD (swmodify)
- 3.3 Removing Installed Software (swremove)
- 3.1 Listing Your Software (swlist)
- 4 Managing Software Depots
- 4.1 Depot Management Commands and Concepts
- 4.2 Copying Software Depots
- 4.3 Registering and Unregistering Depots (swreg)
- 4.4 Additional Depot Management Tasks and Examples
- 4.4.1 Combining Patch Depots
- 4.4.2 Creating a Tape Depot for Distribution
- 4.4.3 Setting Depot Attributes
- 4.4.4 Creating a Network Depot
- 4.4.5 Managing Multiple Versions of HP-UX
- 4.4.6 Listing Registered Depots
- 4.4.7 Listing the Contents of a Depot (swlist -d)
- 4.4.8 Source Depot Auditing
- 4.4.9 Verifying a Depot (swverify -d)
- 4.4.10 Removing Software from Depots
- 4.4.11 Removing a Depot
- 5 HP-UX Patching and Patch Management
- 6 Using Jobs and the Job Browser
- 7 Remote Operations Overview
- 8 Reliability and Performance
- 9 SD-UX Security
- 9.1 Overview
- 9.2 The swacl Command
- 9.3 Basic Security Tasks
- 9.4 How ACLs are Matched to the User
- 9.5 ACL Entries
- 9.6 Security on SD-UX Systems
- 9.7 SD-UX Internal Authentication
- 9.8 RPC Authorization
- 9.9 Security Use Models
- 9.10 Permission Requirements, by Command
- 9.10.1 Packaging (swpackage)
- 9.10.2 Listing (swlist)
- 9.10.3 Job Browsing (sd, swjob)
- 9.10.4 Copying (swcopy)
- 9.10.5 Installing (swinstall)
- 9.10.6 Removal (swremove)
- 9.10.7 Configuration (swconfig)
- 9.10.8 Verify (swverify)
- 9.10.9 Registering Depots (swreg)
- 9.10.10 Changing ACLs (swacl)
- 9.10.11 Request Scripts (swask)
- 9.10.12 Modify (swmodify)
- 10 Creating Software Packages
- 10.1 Overview of the Packaging Process
- 10.2 Identifying the Products to Package
- 10.3 Adding Control Scripts
- 10.4 Creating a Product Specification File (PSF)
- 10.4.1 Product Specification File Examples
- 10.4.2 PSF Syntax
- 10.4.2.1 PSF Object Syntax
- 10.4.2.2 Selecting the PSF Layout Version
- 10.4.2.3 PSF Value Types
- 10.4.2.4 Product Specification File Semantics
- 10.4.2.4.1 Vendor-Defined Attributes
- 10.4.2.4.2 Distribution (Depot) Specification
- 10.4.2.4.3 Vendor Specification
- 10.4.2.4.4 Category Specification
- 10.4.2.4.5 Product or Bundle Specification
- 10.4.2.4.6 Control Script Specification
- 10.4.2.4.7 Subproduct Specification
- 10.4.2.4.8 Fileset Specification
- 10.4.2.4.9 Dependency Specification
- 10.4.2.4.10 Control Script Specification
- 10.4.2.4.11 File Specification
- 10.4.2.5 Re-Specifying Files
- 10.5 Packaging the Software (swpackage)
- 10.6 Packaging Tasks and Examples
- 10.6.1 Registering Depots Created by swpackage
- 10.6.2 Creating and Mastering a CD-ROM Depot
- 10.6.3 Compressing Files to Increase Performance
- 10.6.4 Packaging Security
- 10.6.5 Repackaging or Modifying a Software Package
- 10.6.6 Packaging In Place
- 10.6.7 Following Symbolic Links in the Source
- 10.6.8 Generating File Revisions
- 10.6.9 Depots on Remote File Systems
- 10.6.10 Verifying the Software Package
- 10.6.11 Packaging Patch Software
- 10.6.12 Writing to Multiple Tapes
- 10.6.13 Making Tapes from an Existing Depot
- 11 Using Control Scripts
- 11.1 Introduction to Control Scripts
- 11.2 General Script Guidelines
- 11.3 Packaging Control Scripts
- 11.4 Using Environment Variables
- 11.5 Execution of Control Scripts
- 11.5.1 Details Common to All Control Scripts
- 11.5.2 Checkinstall Scripts
- 11.5.3 Preinstall Scripts
- 11.5.4 Postinstall Scripts
- 11.5.5 Configure Scripts
- 11.5.6 Unconfigure Scripts
- 11.5.7 Verify Scripts
- 11.5.8 Fix Scripts
- 11.5.9 Checkremove Scripts
- 11.5.10 Preremove Scripts
- 11.5.11 Postremove Scripts
- 11.5.12 Request Scripts
- 11.6 Execution of Other Commands by Control Scripts
- 11.7 Control Script Input and Output
- 11.8 File Management by Control Scripts
- 11.9 Testing Control Scripts
- 11.10 Requesting User Responses (swask)
- 11.11 Request Script Tasks and Examples
- 12 Nonprivileged SD
- A Command Options
- B Troubleshooting
- B.1 Error Logging
- B.2 Common Problems
- B.2.1 Cannot Contact Target Host’s Daemon or Agent
- B.2.2 GUI Won’t Start or Missing Support Files
- B.2.3 Access To An Object Is Denied
- B.2.4 Slow Network Performance
- B.2.5 Connection Timeouts and Other WAN Problems
- B.2.6 Disk Space Analysis Is Incorrect
- B.2.7 Packager Fails
- B.2.8 Command Logfile Grows Too Large
- B.2.9 Daemon Logfile Is Too Long
- B.2.10 Cannot Read a Tape Depot
- B.2.11 Installation Fails
- B.2.12 swinstall or swremove Fails With a Lock Error
- C Replacing or Updating SD-UX
- D Software Distributor Files and File System Structure
- Glossary
- Index
If a product provides a more complex configuration process, a script can set the fileset’s
state to configured upon successful completion.
To change the values of a fileset’s attributes:
# swmodify -a state=installed PRODUCT.FILESET
To change the attributes of a depot:
# swmodify -a title=Master Depot \
-a description=/tmp/mfg.description \
@ /mfg/master_depot
3.2.3.3 Defining New Objects
You can import an existing application (not installed by SD-UX) by constructing a
simple Product Specification File (PSF) describing the product and then invoke
swmodify to load that definition into the IPD.
To create a new fileset definition (if the PSF contains file definitions, then add those
files to the new fileset):
swmodify -s new_fileset_definition
3.3 Removing Installed Software (swremove)
The swremove command removes software that has been installed on a host. Before
its removal, the software is first unconfigured. swremove also removes software
products that have been copied to a software depot.
3.3.1 swremove Features and Limitations
• Removes files from the specified location. It removes symbolic links, but not the
targets of symbolic links. It also lists busy files that were not removed.
• Automatic use of dependencies to automatically select software on which to operate
(in addition to any software you specify directly).
• Ability to run control scripts as part of the removal:
Unconfigure Undoes host configuration performed by configure scripts.
Checkremove Analyzes each target to determine if removal and
unconfiguration can take place. If this check fails, an object
cannot be removed.
Preremove Performs additional file operations, such as removing files
created by a preinstall script.
Postremove Performs additional remove operations (such as restoring
"rollback" files) immediately after a fileset or product has been
removed.
3.3 Removing Installed Software (swremove) 101