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
information in Japanese during one invocation of swlist, then view the same information
in English at the next invocation.
Applies to swagent.
• source_directory
See distribution_source_directory.
• source_file=psf
This keyword defines the default product_specification_file to read as input to the
packaging or swmodify session. It may be a relative or absolute path.
Applies to swpackage and swmodify.
• source_tape=/dev/rmt/0m
Defines the default tape location, usually the character-special file of a local tape device. You
can also use the host:path syntax, but the host must match the local host. The -s option
overrides this value.
Applies to swcopy and swinstall.
• source_type=directory
The default source type (choices are cdrom, file, directory, or tape) that points to one
of the next three options. The source type derived from the -s source file option overrides
this default.
The cdrom and tape values apply to swcopy and swinstall. The file value applies
only to swpackage.
• srp_parallel=6
This option is only supported in a HP-UX Containers (SRP) enabled system. It enables the
parallel installation mode on containers. SD limits the number of concurrent install operations
on containers to the number specified. When an install operation is complete on one container,
another container gets selected and the installation begins. This process continues until
installation is complete on all containers.
Server and disk performance determines the optimal setting; the default value is 6.
A value of:
0 or 1 disables parallel installation mode. Installation runs in serial mode on one
container at a time.
* Installation runs concurrently on all containers.
Applies to swinstall, swremove, and swconfig.
• system_file_path=/stand/system
The path to the kernel’s template file. The path is passed to the system_prep_command via
the SW_SYSTEM_FILE_PATH environment variable.
Applies only to swagent.
• system_prep_cmd=/usr/lbin/sysadm/system_prep
The kernel build preparation script called by the agent. This script must do any necessary
preparation so that control scripts can correctly configure the kernel that is about to be built.
Applies only to swagent.
• targets=
There is no supplied default (see also select_local). If there is more than one target, they
must be separated by spaces. Targets are usually specified in a target input file, as options
on the command line or in the GUI.
Applies to all commands.
250 Command Options