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
D Software Distributor Files and File System Structure
This chapter contains information on key Software Distributor files.
For additional information, refer to the following manual reference pages:
sd(5) For most current information on Software Distributor files
sd(4) For file layouts of all Software Distributor files.
swpackage(4) For file layouts of Software Distributor files created during packaging.
Table 59 Chapter Topics
Topics:
“Agent File System Structure ” (page 264)
“Software Distributor Controller File System Structure ” (page 265)
“Installed Products Database ” (page 265)
Agent File System Structure
The agent component is organized as follows:
Table 60 Agent Component
Default location of the target tape device file/dev/rmt/Om
Location of the gzip executables used in file compression/usr/contrib/bin
The SD-UX agent/usr/lbin/swagent
Directory containing utilities used by swinstall and
swremove
/usr/lbin/sw
File containing common utilities used by SD control scripts./usr/lbin/sw/control_utils
Directory that contains the Software Distributor daemon
(and all other executables)
/usr/sbin
Directory that contains various example packages and
PSF files
/usr/lib/sw/examples
File that lists all options and their default values/usr/lib/sw/sys.defaults
Directory that contains all the data for the Software
Distributor product and the default location of logfiles
/var/adm/sw
Default directory of the local Software Distributor depot/var/spool/sw
Software Distributor system-wide defaults file/var/adm/sw/defaults
List of depots registered at the local host/var/adm/sw/host_object
List of depots registered at the local host during
nonprivileged mode
/var/adm/sw/host_object_np
The Installed Products Database (IPD), a series of files and
subdirectories that contain information about all products
installed under the root (/) directory
/var/adm/sw/products
Directory that contains the Jobs database./var/adm/sw/queue
Directory that is SD’s save area for patches/var/adm/sw/save
Directory that is a custom save area for patches/var/adm/sw/save_custom
Directory that contains the host Access Control List (ACL),
all default ACLs, and the secrets file
/var/adm/sw/security
Agent logfile containing details on installed software
operations
/var/adm/sw/swagent.log
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