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

• local_srp_list=
This option is only supported in a HP-UX Containers (SRP) enabled system. This option is used
in conjunction with the global_srp option to install software inside each system container.
The list contains space separated system container names enclosed in quotes and can be a
subset of all configured system containers.
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The behavior is as follows:
◦ If neither global_srp nor local_srp_list options are specified, swinstall will
install on the global view and all system containers.
◦ If global_srp=true, and local_srp_list option is not specified, swinstallwill install
only on the global view.
◦ If global_srp=true, and local_srp_list is set, swinstall will install on the global
view and the listed system containers.
◦ If local_srp_list is set, and global_srp option is not specified, swinstall will
install only in the listed system containers.
Applies only to swinstall, swremove, and swconfig.
• log_msgid=0
Adds numeric identification numbers to the beginning of SD-UX log file messages:
◦ 0 (default) adds no identifiers to messages.
◦ 1 adds identifiers to ERROR messages only.
◦ 2 adds identifiers to ERROR and WARNING messages.
◦ 3 adds identifiers to ERROR, WARNING, and NOTE messages.
◦ 4 adds identifiers to ERROR, WARNING, NOTE, and certain other informational messages.
Applies to swconfig, swcopy, swinstall, swmodify, swpackage, swreg, swremove,
and swverify.
• logdetail=false
Controls the amount of detail written to the log file. When set to true, this option adds detailed
task information, such as options specified, progress statements, and additional summary
information, to the log file.
Table A-2 shows the possible combinations of loglevel and logdetail options.
Table 55 loglevel and logdetail Combinations
Information IncludedLog DetailLog Level
No information is written to the log file(not applicable)loglevel=0
Only key events are logged. This is the default setting for
both options.
logdetail=falseloglevel=1
Event detail as above plus task progress messages. (Setting
loglevel=1 is optional because 1 is the default value.)
logdetail=trueloglevel=1
Event and file level messages only. (Setting
logdetail=false is optional because false is the default
value.)
logdetail=falseloglevel=2
All information is logged.logdetail=trueloglevel=2
1
1
This combination duplicates the logfile behavior as HP-UX 10.x releases. Setting both the loglevel=2 and
logdetail=true options is required.
Applies to swconfig, swcopy, swinstall, swreg, swremove and swverify.
240 Command Options