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
This option is ignored when the autoselect_dependencies option is set to false.
If false (default), the first left-most dependency in a list of OR dependencies that satisfies a
requisite is automatically selected, even when another dependency in the list that also satisfies
the requisite is explicitly selected.
If true, the first left-most dependency in a list of OR dependencies that satisfies a requisite is
not automatically selected when another dependency in the list that also satisfies the requisite
is explicitly selected.
Applies to swask, swconfig, swcopy, swinstall, and swverify.
• autoselect_patches=true
Automatically selects the latest patches (based on superseding and ancestor attributes) for a
software object that a user selects for a swinstall or swcopy operation. When set to false,
the patches corresponding to the selected object are not automatically selected.
You can use the patch_filter= option in conjunction with autoselect_patches.
Applies to swask, swinstall and swcopy.
• autoselect_reference_bundles=true
If true, a bundle that is referenced is installed, copied, or removed along with the software
from which the reference is made.
Applies to swcopy, swinstall and swremove.
• check_contents=true
Normally set to true, verify mtime, size and cksum of files.
If false, the software can be installed without the bundle that contains it.
Applies only to swverify.
• check_contents_uncompressed=false
When a file is compressed, SD-UX uses it with check_contents and
check_contents_use_cksum to determine whether or not to compute and verify the
uncompressed checksum and size of a compressed file. (This option is ignored if the file is not
compressed.)
Since the timestamp of uncompressed contents is meaningless, this option verifies only the
timestamp of the file, whether it is compressed or not.
If set to true and the file is compressed, SD-UX uncompresses the file into memory and computes
the checksum and size of the uncompressed contents. Then, the checksum and size of the
compressed file and the checksum and size of the uncompressed contents are verified.
If check_contents_use_cksum=false, only the compressed and uncompressed sizes
are verified, not the checksums.
Applies only to swverify.
• check_contents_use_cksum=true
Normally true, calculates the checksum of the file being verified, checking the timestamp, size,
and checksum.
If false, turns off the checksum calculation. If check_contents is set to true, timestamp and
size checking is still performed.
Applies only to swverify.
• check_permissions=true
Normally set to true, verify owner, uid, group, gid and mode attributes of files.
Applies only to swverify.
• check_requisites=true
Normally set to true, verify that the prerequisites and corequisites of filesets are being met.
Applies only to swverify.
232 Command Options