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
controlled by the allow_incompatible option and depend on the host’s uname
attributes.
NOTE: HP strongly advises that you do not install software that is incompatible
unless you are advised to do so by your HP Support representative.
Table 2-4 Product Compatibility
Target Root attributeProduct value (Pattern to
match)
Product attribute
uname -m
IAia64*
machine_type
uname -m
IA or PA9000/*
machine_type
uname -s
HP-UXHP-UX
os_name
uname -r
B.11.11?.11.*
os_release
uname -v
C*
os_version
If allow_incompatible=false (the default), swinstall restricts the installation
of incompatible software and automatically filters the products on the source. The
Software Selection window shows only those products compatible with the hardware
and OS of all target systems.
If allow_incompatible=true, swinstall allows the installation of any software.
The GUI displays all products on the source for selection.
You can also use the -x os_nameand-x os_release options to check compatibility.
During an OS update, for example, if a system has been installed as 11.0/32 bit and you
wish to update to the 64-bit version of HP-UX, you can make the system appear as a
64-bit system for the purpose of compatibility checking against the merged depot by
specifying the options-x os_name=HP-UX:64 and -x os_release=B.11.00. (You
can also specify these options at a fileset level.)
68 Installing Software