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
If set to false, a failure return from a kernel build process is ignored, and the install session
proceeds. The currently running kernel remains in place.
Applies only to swinstall.
• enforce_locatable=true
When set to the default value of true, this option generates an error if a command tries to
relocate a non-relocatable fileset. (Relocatable filesets are packaged with the
is_relocatable attribute set to true.) When set to false, the usual error handling process
is overridden, and SD-UX permits the command to relocate the fileset.
Note that although this option is defined for swverify, there is no swverify behavior associated
with the option.
Applies to swinstall and swverify.
• enforce_scripts=true
Controls the handling of errors generated by scripts. If true, and a script returns an error, the
command halts, and an error message appears reporting that the execution failed. If false,
script-generated errors are treated as warnings, and the command attempts to continue. A
warning message appears and reports that the command was successful. Where appropriate,
the message identifies the phase in which the error occurred (configure/unconfigure,
preinstall/postinstall, preremove/postremove, etc.).
Applies to swask, swconfig, swinstall and swremove.
• enforce_selections=false
This option controls the behavior of the SD-UX commands by checking the
software_selections that are available. When set to false, the SD-UX command
proceeds if one or more software_selections are available. When set to true, the
SD-UX command proceeds only if all of the software_selections are available. This
behavior applies to swconfig, swcopy, swinstall, swremove, and swverify commands.
• files=
When adding or deleting file objects, this option can list the path names of those files. There
is no supplied default. File objects being added can also be specified in the given product
specification file.
If there is more than one path name, they must be separated by white space and surrounded
by double-quotes.
Applies only to swmodify.
• fix=false
Controls whether or not to run vendor-specific scripts to correct and report problems on installed
software. Fix scripts can create missing directories, correct file modifications (mode, owner,
group, major, minor), and recreate symbolic links.
If false (default), fix scripts are not run.
If true, fix scripts are run.
Applies to swverify.
• follow_symlinks=false
Do not follow symbolic links that exist in the packaging source; instead, package them as
symlinks.
Applies only to swpackage.
• global_srp=
This option is only supported in a HP-UX Containers (SRP) enabled system. This is used in
conjunction with the local_srp_list option to install software on the system.
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For more information, see the syntax of the local_srp_list option.
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