Software Distributor Administration Guide (March 2009)

Table D-2 Agent Component (continued)
List of depots registered at the local host
/var/adm/sw/host_object
List of depots registered at the local host during
nonprivileged mode
/var/adm/sw/host_object_np
The Installed Products Database (IPD), a series of
files and subdirectories that contain information
about all products installed under the root (/)
directory
/var/adm/sw/products
Directory that contains the Jobs database.
/var/adm/sw/queue
Directory that is SD’s save area for patches
/var/adm/sw/save
Directory that is a custom save area for patches
/var/adm/sw/save_custom
Directory that contains the host Access Control List
(ACL), all default ACLs, and the secrets file
/var/adm/sw/security
Agent logfile containing details on installed
software operations
/var/adm/sw/swagent.log
Daemon log file containing details on host and
security operations
/var/adm/sw/swagentd.log
Controller logfile containing a summary of each
job, where <task> is one of these values:
• install
• remove
• config
• modify
• package
• reg
• verify
/var/adm/sw/sw<task>.log
Directory for temporary files
/var/adm/sw/tmp
Default location for admin_directory during
nonprivileged mode
/var/home/USER_NAME
File containing user-specified default values. If this
file does not exist, Software Distributor looks for
user-specific defaults in $HOME/.sw/defaults
$HOME/.swdefaults
D.2 Software Distributor Controller File System Structure
The controller file system structure is comprised of all files in agent (see “Agent File
System Structure ” (page 347)) plus the following files:
Table D-3 Controller File System Structure
Directory that contains the help files for
on-line help
/usr/lib/sw/help
Directory that contains the description files
used by the GUIs
/usr/lib/sw/ui
348 Software Distributor Files and File System Structure