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
Applies to swacl, swconfig, swcopy, swinstall, swlist, swreg, swremove,
swverify.
• show_superseded_patches=false
If false, swlist will not display superseded patches. To see them, you must set this option to
true. Even if you explicitly swlist the superseded patch, it will not display unless this option
is true.
Applies only to swlist.
• softreboot=false
If any fileset requires to reboot, this option defines the command called by an agent, to reboot
the system after all filesets have been loaded. If set to true, softreboot is invoked.
Applies only to swinstall and swremove
• software=
Defines the default software_selections.
There is no supplied default. If there is more than one software_selection, they must be
surrounded by brackets { } or quotes. Software is usually specified in a software_selections
input file, as options on the command line or in the GUI or TUI.
Applies to all commands except swreg.
• software_view=products
Indicates which software view is to be used in the GUI. It can be set to products,
all_bundles, or a bundle category tag (shows only bundles of that category). The
default view is all_bundles plus products that are not part of a bundle.
Applies to swcopy, swinstall, swlist and swremove.
• source=
Specify a source to automatically bypass the GUI and CLI source selection dialog box. This
has the same effect as the -s source command line option. Specify the source using the
following syntax:
[path]
Applies to swcopy and swinstall.
• source_cdrom=/SD_CDROM
Defines the default location of the source CD-ROM. The syntax is:
[host][:][path]
Applies only to swinstall.
• source_depot_audit=true
If both source and target machine are updated to SD-UX revision B.11.00 or later, the system
administrator at the source depot machine can set this option to track which user pulls which
software from a depot on the source machine and when the software is pulled.
A user running swinstall or swcopy from a target machine cannot set this option; only
the administrator of the source depot machine can set it.
When source_depot_audit is set to its default value of true, a swaudit.log file is
created on the source depot (for writable directory depots) or in /var/tmp (for tar images,
CD-ROMs, or other nonwritable depots).
To view, print, or save the audit information, invoke the swlist interactive user interface by
typing:
swlist -i -d
You can view audit information based on language preference, as long as the system has the
corresponding SD-UX message catalog files on it. For example, you can view the source audit
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