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

Index
Symbols
$HOME/.sw/sessions/ directory, 39
*systemFont, 34
*userFont, 34
-C option, 46, 55, 58, 63, 73, 80, 90, 94, 113, 192,
221
-f option, 36, 46, 55, 58, 63, 64, 73, 80, 90, 94, 113,
192, 221
-i option, 46, 90, 113
-p option, 46, 55, 80, 90
-r option, 46
-S option, 46, 55, 58, 64, 73, 80, 90, 94, 113, 192,
221
-s option, 46, 64, 90, 221
-t option, 37
-u option
swconfig, 55
-x codeword=, 50
-x customer_id=, 50
-x option, 46, 55, 58, 64, 73, 80, 90, 94, 113, 192
/ (root directory), 40
/var/adm/sw/defaultsor $HOME/.sw/defaults file, 38,
227
/var/adm/sw/products file, 73
/var/adm/sw/software/ directory, 36, 37
/var/spool/sw/catalog file, 73
/var/tmp directory, 262
@ ("at") sign, 37
A
abort copy/install, 46
access enforcement, 93
access to files, 157
access, granting, 146
ACL
any_other, 151
command options, 142
creation, swpackage, 196
default template entries, 156
definition, 150
denied access, 256
depot, 152, 154, 257
editing, 149
effects of modification, 256
entry fields, 150
errors, 149
group, 151
header, 143
host, 153
key values, 151
manager, 160
matching, 150
modifying ACL files without using swacl, 257
object_group, 151
object_owner, 151
overview, 141
packaging, 195
permissions, 152
product, 152, 154
root, 152, 154
samples, 149
superuser access, 150
swacl command, 142
templates, 155
user, 151
warning, 149
actions menu, 42, 77
add software group, 78
adding
disk space requirements, 204
adding sources, 32, 42, 86
adding target groups, 120
adding target host, 148
advertising depots, 93
agent option, 228
agent polling, 259
agent_auto_exit, 228
agent_timeout_minutes, 228
agents
handling controller requests, 160
privileges, 159
security, 157
swagent, 20
UNIX, using alternate sources, 137
allow_downdate, 229
allow_incompatible, 51, 229
allow_incompatible default
for swconfig, 52
allow_large_files, 229
allow_large_serial_depot, 229
allow_multiple_versions, 93, 140, 229
allow_multiple_versions default, 51
allow_partial_bundles, 229
allow_split_patches, 229
alternate root
directory, 40
installing to, 51
option -r, 46
removing software from, 82
alternate sources, using, 137
alternate_source, 230
analysis
progress and results, swremove, 79
Analysis Dialog, 43, 78, 88
analyzing
removal, 78
app-defaults file, 34
architecture field, 73
ask option, 230
ask=, 230
assigning management responsibility, 162
276 Index