Software Distributor (SD-UX) Administration Guide HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, and 11i v3 (762797-001, March 2014)

Scheduling Jobs from the Command Line
The -Q date option lets you schedule jobs without starting the Job Browser. This option is available
for swinstall, swcopy, swconfig, swremove, and swverify.
The format for date is:
MM/DD[/YYYY][,HH:MM][AM|PM]
For example, to install the C and Pascal products on June 23, 2001, at 10:14 a.m.:
swinstall -Q 06/23/2001,10:15AM -s sw_server cc pascal
Adding Job Titles
Purpose: to help you identify jobs.
When running large numbers of jobs, you may want to add more information to help you identify
a specific job. You can do this from the Job Browser or by invoking swconfig, swcopy,
swinstall, swremove, and swverify with the job_title command option. This lets you
add an ASCII string that will be displayed along with the ID and other job attributes when you
invoke swjob or the job browser.
For example, to install the C and Pascal products from depot sw_server to three remote hosts
with a job title of 02-HLLs:
# swinstall -s sw_server -x job_title=02-HLLs cc pascal \
@ hostA hostB hostC
Removing Job Information
Purpose: to increase performance and free up disk space when you run very large numbers of
jobs.
SD-UX stores small amounts of information (such as job status or controller or agent logfiles) about
each job. You can display this information from the Job Browser or with swjob. Keeping very large
numbers of job information files may affect performance and reduce the usability of the Job Browser.
Running swconfig, swcopy, swinstall, swremove, or swverify with the autoremove_job
command option set to true prevents SD-UX from storing the job information. (The trade-off is that
you can not view the job information except by viewing log files.)
swinstall -s sw_server -x autoremove_job=true \
MySoftware @ hostA hostB hostC
You can also use the -u option to remove all old job information:
swjob -u \*
You can also remove individual jobs from the Job Browser (see “Removing a Job” (page 112).)
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