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

-X option_file Read session options and behaviors from option_file. See
“Changing Command Options” (page 193).
software_selections The software objects to be installed. See “Software Selections”
(page 35).
If you do not include this specification, swpackage packages all
the products listed in the PSF.
@ target_ selections The target of the command. See “Target Selections” (page 37).
If you are creating a distribution depot (directory), this operand
defines the location of the directory. Without this operand,
/var/spool/sw is used as the default depot directory.
If you are creating a distribution tape, this operand names the
device file on which to write the tar archive. swpackage must
be able to determine if the media is a DDS tape or a disk file.
Without this operand, swpackage uses the device file, /dev/
swtape.
Changing Command Options
You can change the behavior of this command by specifying additional command-line options
when you invoke the command (using the -xoption) or by reading predefined values from a file.
The following table shows the options and default values that apply to swpackage.
Table 49 swpackage Command Options and Default Values
• loglevel=1• admin_directory=/var/spool/sw
• •allow_large_files=false lookupcache_timeout_minutes=10
•• media_capacity=1330allow_large_serial_depot=false
• •allow_partial_bundles=true media_type=directory
•• package_in_place=falsecompress_command=/usr/contrib/bin/gzip
• •compress_files=false reinstall_files=true
•• reinstall_files_use_cksum=truecompress_index=false
• •compression_type=gzip remove_obsolete_filesets=false
•• run_as_superuser=truecreate_target_acls=true
• •distribution_source_directory=/var/spool/sw software=
•• source_directory=distribution_target_directory=/var/spool/sw
• •distribution_target_serial=/dev/rmt/0m source_files=psf
•• source_type=directoryenforce_dsa=true
• •follow_symlinks=false target_directory=
•• target_tape=include_file_revisions=false
• •layout_version=1.0 targets=
•• uncompress_cmd=log_msgid=0
• •logdetail=false verbose=
•• write_remote_files=falselogfile=/var/adm/sw/swpackage.log
For More Information
See Appendix A (page 227) for complete descriptions of each default.
Packaging the Software (swpackage) 193