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
• config_cleanup_cmd=/usr/lbin/sw/config_clean
Defines the script called by the agent to perform release-specific configure cleanup steps.
Applies only to swagent.
• control_files=
When adding or deleting control file objects, this option lists the tags of those control files.
There is no supplied default. (Control file objects being added can also be specified in the
given product specification file.)
If there is more than one tag, they must be separated by white space and surrounded by
quotes.
Applies only to swmodify.
• controller_source=
Specifies the location of a depot for the controller to access to resolve selections. Setting this
option can reduce network traffic between the controller and the target. Use the target selection
syntax to specify the location:
[host][:][path]
This option has no effect on which sources the target uses and is ignored when used with an
Interactive User Interface.
Applies to swconfig, swcopy, swinstall, swremove and swverify.
• create_target_acls=true
Normally set to true, this default determines whether swpackage creates Access Control Lists
(ACLs) in the depot.
If you set this option to false as superuser, ACLs for each new product being packaged (and
for the depot, if it is new) are not created.
When another user invokes swpackage, it always creates ACLs in the distribution depot. This
default has no impact on the ACLs that already exist in the depot. The swpackage command
never creates ACLs when software is packaged onto a distribution tape.
Applies only to swpackage.
• create_target_path=true
Normally set to true, creates the target directory if it does not already exist.
If false, target directory is not created. This option can be used to avoid creating new depots
by mistake.
Applies to swcopy and swinstall.
• create_time_filter=0
Controls time settings for cumulative source depots. The default of zero includes all bundles,
products, subproducts, and filesets in the source depot as candidates for selection (and
autoselection of dependencies and patches), based on the software selections and other
options. When set to a time (specified as seconds from epoch), only bundles, products, and
filesets (and the subproducts in the product) with a create_time less than or equal to the specified
value are available for selection (or autoselection).
To list the create_time of bundles, products and filesets, use:
swlist -a create_time -a create_date
Applies to swlist, swcopy, and swinstall.
• customer_id=
This number, printed on the Software Certificate, “unlocks” protected software and restricts
installation to a specific site or owner. You can enter the number with the -x
customer_id=option or by using the Interactive User Interface. See thecodeword option
for more information.
234 Command Options