Software Distributor (SD-UX) Administration Guide HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, and 11i v3 (762797-001, March 2014)

Centralized
management
See remote operations.
Checkinstall script An optional, script associated with a product or fileset, executed by swinstall during the analysis
phase. The result returned by the script determines if the fileset can be installed or updated.
Checkremove
script
An optional script associated with a fileset that is executed during the swremove analysis phase.
The result returned by the script determines if the fileset can be removed.
checksum Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC), a computed value that is compared with stored data to tell if
a file has been corrupted during transfer.
CLI Command Line Interface. See Command Line User Interface.
Client Usually refers to diskless server computer. Previous versions of SD-UX supported diskless clients.
CLUI See Command Line User Interface. All SD-UX commands can be run from the command line. See
also GUI, TUI, and IUI.
Codeword To protect software from unauthorized installation, HP (and other vendors) use special codewords
and customer identification numbers to lock the software to a particular owner. These codewords
and customer IDs are provided to you when you purchase the software or receive it as update.
Command line
options
Optional parameters for a command entered with the command itself at the HP-UX command line
prompt. See also default options.
Command Line
User Interface
(CLI/CLUI)
Text-formatted commands and options entered at an HP-UX command line prompt or executed
by a script. SD-UX also has a Graphical User Interface (GUI) and a Terminal User Interface (TUI)
for the sd, swinstall, swcopy, swlist, and swremove commands.
Committed The state in which a patch is applied and rollback files have been deleted. Other patch states
include applied and superseded and committed/superseded.
Committed/superseded
A patch state in which the patch is both committed and superseded.
Compatibility
Filtering
The ability of swinstall to filter the software available from a source according to the host’s uname
attributes. Software products are created to run on specific computer hardware and operating
systems. Many versions of the same products may exist, each of which runs on a different
combination of computer hardware and operating system. By default, swinstall does not allow
selection and installation of incompatible software.
Compatible
Software
A software product that will operate on a given hardware system. Software that passes
compatibility filtering for a local host. Also see Incompatible Software.
Configure Script An optional script associated with a fileset and automatically executed by swinstall (or manually
executed by swconfig) after the installation of filesets is complete.
Container ACL
Template
A special ACL (global_soc_template) that is used to create initial ACLs for depot and roots.
See also product ACL template.
Contents A keyword used to assign filesets to subproducts. This allows a fileset to be contained in multiple
subproducts.
Control Script Optional scripts packaged with software or added to software by modifying the IPD. Control
scripts are run during swconfig, swinstall, swremove, or swverify operations. Control scripts may
include: configure or unconfigure for swconfig; checkinstall, preinstall, postinstall and configure
scripts for swinstall; the checkremove, unconfigure, preremove, and postremove scripts for
swremove; and the fix or verify script for swverify.
Controller The SD-UX programs or commands (swinstall, swcopy, etc.) that are invoked by the user on the
local host and that direct the actions of an SD-UX agent.
Copyright A keyword that defines the copyright attribute for the destination depot (media) being
created/modified by swpackage. It refers to the copyright information for the software product.
Corequisite A dependency in which a fileset requires that another fileset be installed or configured at the
same time. For example, if fileset A requires that fileset B is installed at the same time, fileset B
is a corequisite.
Critical Fileset A fileset containing software critical to the correct operation of the host. Critical filesets are those
with the reboot and/or kernel fileset flags. During swinstall’s load phase, critical filesets are
loaded and customized before other filesets.
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