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
Table 60 Agent Component (continued)
Daemon log file containing details on host and security
operations
/var/adm/sw/swagentd.log
Controller logfile containing a summary of each job, where
<task> is one of these values:
/var/adm/sw/sw<task>.log
• install
• remove
• config
• modify
• package
• reg
• verify
Directory for temporary files/var/adm/sw/tmp
Default location for admin_directory during nonprivileged
mode
/var/home/USER_NAME
File containing user-specified default values. If this file does
not exist, Software Distributor looks for user-specific
defaults in $HOME/.sw/defaults
$HOME/.swdefaults
Software Distributor Controller File System Structure
The controller file system structure is comprised of all files in agent (see “Agent File System Structure
” (page 264)) plus the following files:
Table 61 Controller File System Structure
Directory that contains the help files for on-line help/usr/lib/sw/help
Directory that contains the description files used by
the GUIs
/usr/lib/sw/ui
X11 resource definitions for the GUIs/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults
Message catalogs for the daemon, agent, and
shared messages
/usr/lib/nls/msg/$LANG/sw*.cat
Data files that are conditionally copied into
/var/adm/sw.
/usr/newconfig/var/adm/sw
Directory that contains all the data for jobs/var/adm/sw/queue
Controller logfile/var/adm/sw/sw<task>.log
System-level defaults.hosts file for the GUIs/var/adm/sw/defaults.hosts
Key file that enables the remote operations GUI/var/adm/sw/.sdkey
Location of the cache file for each target host/var/adm/sw/target_hosts
Directory that stores the GUI user view preferences/var/adm/sw/ui/preferences
Installed Products Database
Software Distributor commands keep track of installations, products, and filesets on the system with
the Installed Product Database (IPD). Located in the directory /var/adm/sw/products, the IPD
is a series of files and subdirectories that contain information about all the products that are installed
under the root directory (/). This information includes all the attributes describing the products,
filesets, and files. The swinstall, swconfig, and swremove tasks automatically add to, change,
and delete this IPD information as the commands are executed.
You cannot manually edit the IPD files, but swmodify lets you change local IPD and local depot
catalog information.
Software Distributor Controller File System Structure 265