Software Distributor Administrator Guide (September 2010)

Software
selection
A group of software objects you have selected for an operation. You can save these software
selections for later reuse. See software group.
Software
Selection
Window
A GUI window that lets you select the software files you want to install, copy, or remove.
Software
source
A depot used as the source of a swinstall or swcopy operation.
Source See software source.
SPA See Single Point Administration.
Staged
installation
See staging.
Staging A way of setting up intermediate depots that are local to each group of targets on local area
networks. This can reduce the amount of network traffic.
State An attribute that indicates the current state of the fileset. During installation, software is
transitioned through the following states: non-existent, transient, installed, and configured. During
removal, software is transitioned through these states: configured, installed, transient, and non-existent.
If a task fails during a transient state, the state is set to corrupt.
Subproducts An optional grouping of filesets, used to partition a product that contains many filesets or to offer
the user different views of the filesets.
Superseded The state in which a patch was applied but was then replaced by a superseding patch. Other patch
states include applied and committed.
Superseding
patch
A patch that supersedes all previous patches to a given fileset.
SW-DIST A software product that provides all of the SD-UX functionality. SW-DIST is included on your
HP-UX 11i media. If SW-DIST is damaged, missing, or corrupted on your system, you cannot
install or copy any HP-UX software that is packaged in the SD-UX format, including a newer
SW-DIST product. You can re-install SD-UX with the install-sd command.
swacl A SD-UX command that allows you to modify Access Control List permissions that provide
software security.
swadm In SD-UX security, the default user identification group.
swagent The SD-UX agent program that makes changes to depots and roots. It is directed by the controller
and scheduled by the daemon
swagentd The SD-UX daemon that provides various services, including: initiation of communication between
the controller and agent; serving one or more depots to multiple requesting agents on remote hosts.
swask A SD-UX command that lets you run an interactive request script to get a response from the user.
Request scripts can also be run by the swconfig and swinstall commands.
swconfig A SD-UX command that configures previously installed software and make the software ready
for use.
swcopy A SD-UX command that copies software from a software source to a depot or from one depot to
another. The swcopy command can add products to an existing depot, replace products already
on a depot, or create a new depot.
swgettools A SD-UX command used in previous HP-UX releases to install the new SW-DIST product from
media. This command has been replaced by install-sd and update-ux.
swinstall A SD-UX command that installs software. swinstall may also perform software configuration.
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