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 46 Keywords Used in the Product Specification File (continued)
ExampleMax Size in
bytes
ValueKeyword
contents commands agent data man noneone-line list of tag
string values
description
title
<data/desc.mgr
Management Utilities
8K
256
multi_line_string
one_line_string
Fileset Class
commands64tag_string
fileset
* tag
prod.oldfilesetnonerepeatable list of ancestor
product.fileset
HP-UX_B.11.11_32/6464revision_string architecture
patch_normal64tag_string category_tag
SD-UX.man.r>=2.0nonesoftware_spec corequisite
<data/descr.cmd8Kmulti_line_string description
SD-UX.data,R>=2.1nonesoftware_spec exrequisite
false9boolean is_kernel
false9boolean is_patch
ipf pfil256one_line_string dynamic_module
false9boolean is_reboot
false-64boolean is_sparse
9000/8*64uname_string machine_type
HP-UX64uname_string os_name
?.11.*64uname_string os_release
A64uname_string os_version
SD-UX.agent,r>=2.0nonesoftware_spec prerequisite
2.4264revision_string* revision
product.fileset
SD-UX Commands
none
256
software_spec
one_line_string
supersedes
title
Class
./commands=/usr/sbinnonepath_mapping_string
control_files
directory
-u 0222 -o root -g sysnone
none
permission_string
file_specification
file_permissions
file -m 04555 bin/swinstall (or)
*
Table 47 Control File Attributes
ExampleSize in BytesTypeKeyword
./scripts/checkinstall
./scripts/checkremove
1K
1K
path_string
path_string
checkinstall
checkremove
./scripts/configure1Kpath_stringconfigure
./scripts/subscripts1Kpath_stringcontrol_file
./scripts/fix1Kpath_stringfix
./scripts/postinstall1Kpath_stringpostinstall
./scripts/postremove1Kpath_stringpostremove
./scripts/preinstall1Kpath_stringpreinstall
./scripts/preremove1Kpath_stringpreremove
./scripts/request1Kpath_stringrequest
./scripts/unconfigure1Kpath_stringunconfigure
./scripts/unpreinstall1Kpath_stringunpreinstall
./scripts/unpostinstall
./scripts/verify
1K
1K
path_string
path_string
unpostinstall
verify
Control Files
SD-UX supports execution of control files (also known as control scripts) at the product and fileset
level. Control scripts let you perform additional checks and operations. The swinstall, swconfig,
swverify, and swremove commands each execute one or more vendor supplied scripts. All
scripts are optional but many times are needed correctly complete the task that you want your
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