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 3 SD Commands
More InformationDescription/FeaturesCommand & Manpage
• “Installation with swinstall” (page 40)
swinstall(1M)
• Installs or updates software
• Optional GUI
swlist(1M)
• “Listing Your Software (swlist)” (page 61)• Lists installed software or software in
depots or on media
• “Listing Registered Depots” (page 99)
• Optional GUI
• “Copying Software Depots” (page 84)
swcopy(1M)
• Copies software from one depot to
another
• Optional GUI
swremove(1M)
• “Removing Installed Software (swremove)”
(page 76)
• Removes installed software or software
in a depot
• •Optional GUI “Removing Software from Depots” (page 101)
• Chapter 10: “Creating Software Packages
” (page 165)
• Creates packages of software which
can then be used as a source for other
SD-UX commands
swpackage(1M)
swconfig(1M)
• “Configuring Your Installation (swconfig)”
(page 52)
• Runs configuration scripts on installed
software
• •Configures, reconfigures, or
unconfigures
Chapter 11: “Using Control Scripts ”
(page 201)
• Runs interactive request scripts that
gather information for later use by
swinstall or swconfig
swask(1M)
• Chapter 11: “Using Control Scripts ”
(page 201)
• “Requesting User Responses (swask)”
(page 221)
• Chapter 9: “SD-UX Security ” (page 141)• Specifies, lists, and changes Access
Control Lists (ACLs) for SD security.
swacl(1M)
swverify(1M)
• “Verifying Your Installation (swverify)”
(page 57)
• Verifies the integrity of installed software
or depot software by comparing IPD
information with the files actually
installed
• “Verifying a Depot (swverify -d) ” (page 101)
• Runs verify and fix scripts
• “Modifying the IPD (swmodify)” (page 72)• Modifies the Installed Products Database
(IPD) and various catalog files that
contain information about the software
on the system
swmodify(1M)
• “Registering and Unregistering Depots
(swreg) ” (page 93)
• Registers newly created depots to make
them visible to other systems
swreg(1M)
sd(5)
• Chapter 7: “Remote Operations Overview”
(page 116)
• Starts the Job Browser GUI to create,
monitor, schedule, and delete jobs
• •Requires that remote operations are
enabled
Chapter 6: “Using Jobs and the Job Browser”
(page 103)
swjob(1M)
• “Monitoring Jobs from the Command Line”
(page 112)
• Monitors jobs from the command line
• Requires that remote operations are
enabled
• Chapter 7: “Remote Operations Overview”
(page 116)
• Chapter 6: “Using Jobs and the Job Browser”
(page 103)
18 Introduction to Software Distributor