Software Distributor Administrator Guide (September 2010)

3.3.4.3 Removing Multiple Versions ......................................................................111
3.3.4.4 Removing Software from an Alternate Root ..............................................111
4 Managing Software Depots.....................................................................................................113
4.1 Depot Management Commands and Concepts..........................................................113
4.1.1 Depot Concepts...................................................................................................113
4.1.1.1 Types of Depots...........................................................................................114
4.1.1.1.1 Directory Depot...................................................................................114
4.1.1.1.2 Tape Depot..........................................................................................114
4.1.1.2 Depot Registration......................................................................................115
4.2 Copying Software Depots...........................................................................................115
4.2.1 swcopy Features and Limitations.......................................................................115
4.2.2 Using the swcopy GUI........................................................................................115
4.2.3 Using the swcopy Command Line......................................................................122
4.2.4 Copy Tasks and Examples...................................................................................124
4.2.4.1 Simple swcopy Examples............................................................................124
4.2.4.2 Using Software Codewords and Customer IDs .........................................125
4.2.4.3 Multiple Software Products in Depots .......................................................125
4.3 Registering and Unregistering Depots (swreg) ..........................................................125
4.3.1 Register Media or Create Network Depot?.........................................................126
4.3.2 Registration and Security....................................................................................126
4.3.3 Authorization .....................................................................................................126
4.3.4 Using swreg.........................................................................................................126
4.3.5 swreg Examples...................................................................................................128
4.4 Additional Depot Management Tasks and Examples.................................................128
4.4.1 Combining Patch Depots.....................................................................................128
4.4.2 Creating a Tape Depot for Distribution..............................................................128
4.4.3 Setting Depot Attributes.....................................................................................129
4.4.4 Creating a Network Depot..................................................................................129
4.4.5 Managing Multiple Versions of HP-UX..............................................................130
4.4.6 Listing Registered Depots...................................................................................131
4.4.7 Listing the Contents of a Depot (swlist -d) ........................................................131
4.4.8 Source Depot Auditing........................................................................................132
4.4.9 Verifying a Depot (swverify -d) .........................................................................132
4.4.10 Removing Software from Depots......................................................................133
4.4.11 Removing a Depot.............................................................................................133
5 HP-UX Patching and Patch Management...................................................................................135
6 Using Jobs and the Job Browser...............................................................................................137
6.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................137
6.1.1 Starting the Job Browser......................................................................................137
6 Table of Contents