Software Distributor (SD-UX) Administration Guide HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, and 11i v3 (762797-001, March 2014)
Table Of Contents
- Software Distributor Administration Guide
- Contents
- HP secure development lifecycle
- About This Document
- 1 Introduction to Software Distributor
- SD-UX Overview
- SD-UX Concepts
- Using the GUI and TUI Commands
- The Terminal User Interface
- Starting the GUI/TUI Commands
- Window Components
- Opening and closing items in the object list
- Marking Items in the Object List
- Preselecting Host Files
- Software Selection Window
- Session and File Management—The File Menu
- Changing Software Views—The View Menu
- Changing Options and Refreshing the Object List—The Options Menu
- Performing Actions—The Actions Menu
- Getting Help—The Help Menu
- XToolkit Options and Changing Display Fonts
- Working from the Command Line
- 2 Installing Software
- Installation with swinstall
- Features and Limitations
- Installing with the GUI
- Installing from the Command Line
- Installation Tasks and Examples
- Updating to HP-UX 11i
- Installing Patches
- Recovering Updated Files
- Installing Software That Requires a System Reboot
- Using Software Codewords and Customer IDs
- Re-installing Software Distributor
- Installing Multiple Versions
- Installing to an Alternate Root
- Compatibility Filtering and Checking
- Software Selection Checking
- Configuring Your Installation (swconfig)
- Verifying Your Installation (swverify)
- Installation with swinstall
- 3 Managing Installed Software
- 4 Managing Software Depots
- Depot Management Commands and Concepts
- Copying Software Depots
- Registering and Unregistering Depots (swreg)
- Verifying Signed Software Signatures
- Additional Depot Management Tasks and Examples
- Combining Patch Depots
- Creating a Tape Depot for Distribution
- Setting Depot Attributes
- Creating a Network Depot
- Managing Multiple Versions of HP-UX
- Listing Registered Depots
- Listing the Contents of a Depot (swlist -d)
- Source Depot Auditing
- Verifying a Depot (swverify -d)
- Removing Software from Depots
- 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
- 10 Creating Software Packages
- Overview of the Packaging Process
- Identifying the Products to Package
- Adding Control Scripts
- Creating a Product Specification File (PSF)
- Product Specification File Examples
- PSF Syntax
- PSF Object Syntax
- Selecting the PSF Layout Version
- PSF Value Types
- Product Specification File Semantics
- Re-Specifying Files
- Packaging the Software (swpackage)
- Packaging Tasks and Examples
- Registering Depots Created by swpackage
- Creating and Mastering a CD-ROM Depot
- Compressing Files to Increase Performance
- Packaging Security
- Repackaging or Modifying a Software Package
- Packaging In Place
- Following Symbolic Links in the Source
- Generating File Revisions
- Depots on Remote File Systems
- Verifying the Software Package
- Packaging Patch Software
- Writing to Multiple Tapes
- Making Tapes from an Existing Depot
- 11 Using Control Scripts
- Introduction to Control Scripts
- General Script Guidelines
- Packaging Control Scripts
- Using Environment Variables
- Execution of Control Scripts
- Execution of Other Commands by Control Scripts
- Control Script Input and Output
- File Management by Control Scripts
- Testing Control Scripts
- Requesting User Responses (swask)
- Request Script Tasks and Examples
- 12 Nonprivileged SD
- A Command Options
- B Troubleshooting
- Error Logging
- Common Problems
- Cannot Contact Target Host’s Daemon or Agent
- GUI Won’t Start or Missing Support Files
- Access To An Object Is Denied
- Slow Network Performance
- Connection Timeouts and Other WAN Problems
- Disk Space Analysis Is Incorrect
- Packager Fails
- Command Logfile Grows Too Large
- Daemon Logfile Is Too Long
- Cannot Read a Tape Depot
- Installation Fails
- swinstall or swremove Fails With a Lock Error
- Use of Square Brackets ([ and ]) Around an IPv6 Address Causes an Error
- Some SD commands do not work after network configuration changes
- C Replacing or Updating SD-UX
- D Software Distributor Files and File System Structure
- Glossary
- Index

Table 28 swjob Command Options and Default Values (continued)
• targets=
• one_liner={jobid operation state progress results title}
• verbose=1
• rpc_binding_info=ncacn_ip_tcp:[2121]
ncadg_ip_udp:[2121]
For More Information
See Appendix A (page 227) for more information about setting options and a complete listing and
description of each option.
swjob Attributes
Each job has its own set of attributes. These attributes include job title, date of scheduled execution,
and results. The -a option selects a specific attribute to display. You can specify multiple -a options
to display multiple attributes.
Table 29 Typical job attributes
The job identification number assigned by SD-UXjobid
The type of operation (install, copy, remove, verify, etc.)operation
Current job status (completed, scheduled, or active)state
Number of targets completedprogress
Completion status, indicating success, warnings, or errorsresults
A title specified for the job by using the job_title option in swconfig, swcopy,
swinstall, swremove, or swverify (see “Managing and Tuning Jobs with Command
Options” (page 114))
title
Date at which the job was scheduled to runschedule
Date at which information for this job was last updatedlastupdate
swjob Tasks and Examples
To simply list the jobs available, type:
swjob
To display attributes of jobs on the local system, type:
swjob -v
To display attributes of jobs on remote system swbash3, type:
swjob -v @ swbash3:/var/spool/sw
Using the -a logoption lets you display log files for jobs. A job log file summarizes job details
and target actions. For example, to display the depot log file for the job swbash3-0008 on remote
system swbash3:
swjob -a log swbash3-0008 @ swbash3:/var/spool/sw
NOTE: You cannot specify any other -a options in the same command if you use -a log.
To remove job information for all previous jobs:
swjob -u \*
Managing and Tuning Jobs with Command Options
SD-UX command options let you manage and tune job behavior to best fit your environment,
particularly when you run large numbers of jobs.
See “Using Command Options” (page 37) for additional information on setting command options.
114 Using Jobs and the Job Browser