Software Distributor Administrator Guide (September 2010)

• use_alternate_source=false
At the default value of false, swinstall or swcopy begins an analysis or task
with a request that includes information describing the source binding and depot
path for the local host to use as the software source.
If true, the local host uses its own configured value. On the local host, the agent’s
configured value for alternate_source is specified in host:/path format. If
this value contains only a path component (for example,
alternate_source=:/path), the agent applies this path to the file system of
its own local host.
If only the host component exists (for example, alternate_source=host), the
agent applies the controller-supplied path to this host. If there is no configured
value at all for the alternate_source, the agent applies the controller-supplied
path to its own local host.
Applies to swcopy and swinstall.
• verbose=
By default, the command sends output to stdout for task summary messages.
Alternatively, the verbose option can be set to 0 for session level messages (no
output to stdout) or (for swpackage and swmodify) to 2 for file level messages.
Error and warning messages are always written to stderr.
For the swlist command, a verbose listing includes all attributes that have been
defined for the appropriate level of each software_selection operand. The
attributes are listed one per line, prefaced by the attribute keyword.
The -v option overrides this default, if it is set to 0.
Applies to all commands.
• write_remote_files=false
Prevents file operations on remote (NFS) file systems. All files destined for
installation, copy, removal, or packaging on targets on a remote (NFS) file systems
are skipped.
If set to true and if the superuser has write permission on the remote file system,
the remote files are not skipped.
Applies to swconfig, swcopy, swinstall, swpackage, and swremove.
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