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
• check_scripts=true
Normally set to true, run the vendor-supplied verify scripts when verifying software.
Applies only to swverify.
• check_volatile=false
When set to true, swverify verifies installed files that have the is_volatile attribute set.
By default, installed volatile files do not have their attributes verified because they are intended
to be modified by the customer.
Applies only to swverify.
• codeword=
Lets you to enter a codeword for the HP-UX licensing procedure. Once entered you need not
re-enter the codeword. See “Working with Protected Software ” (page 23) for more information.
Applies to swcopy, swinstall and swlist.
• compress_cmd=/usr/contrib/bin/gzip
Specifies the command called by the source agent to compress files before installing, copying,
or packaging.
If you set the compression_type option to a value other than gzip or compress, you
must change this path.
Applies to swagent and swpackage.
• compress_files=false
Controls file compression during transfer. When set to false, files are not compressed before
transfer from a remote source.
If set to true, SD-UX compresses files before network transfer if they’re not already compressed.
For swinstall, the files are uncompressed after network transfer.
If set to true during swcopy or swpackage, the resulting depots are smaller, unless you also
set uncompress_files to true.
Applies to swcopy, swinstall and swpackage.
• compress_index=false
Enhances performance on slower networks, although it may increase disk space usage due
to a larger Installed Products Database and depot catalog. The default of false does not
compress INDEX and INFO files. When set to true, INDEX and INFO files are compressed.
Applies to swinstall, swcopy, swpackage, swmodify, swconfig, and swremove.
• compression_type=gzip
Defines the default compression type used by the agent (or set by swpackage) when it
compresses files during or after transmission.
If uncompress_files is set to false, the compression type is recorded for each file
compressed so that the correct uncompression can later be applied during a swinstall, or
a swcopy with uncompress_files set to true.
The compress_cmd specified must produce files with the compression_type specified.
The uncompress_cmd must be able to process files of the compression_type specified
unless the format is gzip which is uncompressed by the internal uncompressor (funzip). To use
gzip you must load the SW-DIST.GZIP fileset (which is optional freeware). If the
SW-DIST.GZIP fileset is loaded, then you may set the compression options as follows:
compress_cmd=/usr/contrib/bin/gzip
uncompress_cmd=/usr/contrib/bin/gunzip
compression_type=gzip
Applies to swpackage and swagent.
Options Listed Alphabetically 233