Software Distributor Administration Guide (March 2009)

Response file A file that is generated by an interactive request script and contains the user’s response.
Revision This keyword defines the “revision” attribute for the product object. The revision information
(release number, version) for the product.
Root The root directory of a system (/). See Root Directory.
Root
Directory
The directory on a target host in which all the files of the selected products will be installed. The
default (/), can be changed to install into a directory that will eventually act as the root to another
system. See Alternate Root Directory.
RPC Remote Procedure Call. DCE technology for distributed communications and data transfer.
S
sd The command that invokes the Job Browser, a GUI program that lets you create, monitor, schedule,
and delete jobs. The swjob command lets you monitor jobs from the command line. You can also
activate the Job Browser with the swjob -i command.
SD format See SD-UX format.
SD-UX format The format and syntax of SD-UX software in depots.
Secret In SD-UX security, a password used to verify the authenticity of the caller’s host. SD-UX manages
sets of hosts by restricting and changing the default secret on all controller and target hosts in the
network. See shared secrets file.
Security Controlling access to software objects. In SD-UX, security is achieved by a combination of Access
Control Lists (ACLs) associated with objects and commands, and the security inherent in the file
system permissions on which the software is stored. See Access Control List.
Selection,
Selection
Phase
The first phase of a software installation, copy, remove, or verify operation, during which the
user selects the software products to be installed, copied, or removed from the host.
Server A system on the network that acts as a software source for other systems on the network.
Session/Session File
Each invocation of a SD-UX command defines a session. Most SD commands let you use the -C
session_file option to save command options, source information, software selections, and
host selections and reuse this information with the -S session_file option. You can also save
and reuse session information from the GUI programs.
Shared Secrets
File
In SD-UX security, a file containing the passwords used to encrypt and decrypt distributed
communications for added security.
Single Point Administration (SPA)
The ability to simultaneously distribute to, manage, or monitor multiple remote targets from a
single controller system. See remote operations.
Software
depot
An SD-UX format structure that contains one or more software products that can be installed on
other systems or copied to other depots.
Software file An input file of previously defined software selections to be used as operands for a command. You
specify a software file with the -f software_file command line option.
Software
group
A group of software selections read or saved from the GUI programs.
Software
object
The objects packaged, distributed, installed, or managed by SD-UX. A software object may be a
file, fileset, bundle, or product. Most operations are performed on filesets.
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