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
attributes
definition, 61
listing, 242
sample, 71
audience for this guide, 13
authorization, depot, 93
authorization, RPC, 159
auto_kernel_build, 230
automatic recovery, 231
automatic scrolling, 44, 79, 88
autoreboot, 230
autorecover, 49, 231
autorecover_product, 231
autorecover_product= default, 49
autoremove_job, 115, 231
autoselect_dependencies, 231
autoselect_dependencies=true option, 22
autoselect_dependents, 231
autoselect_minimum_dependencies, 231
autoselect_patches, 232
autoselect_reference_bundles, 232
B
bundles, 20, 166
busy files, swremove, 76
C
catalog files, 21, 72, 73
editing, 21, 73
CD-ROM
depot, 195
mastering to, 195
change
command options, 37, 227
default option, -x, 46, 55, 58, 64, 73, 80, 90, 94,
113, 192
IPD or catalog files, 72
source, 42
source dialog box, 42
target, 78
check volatile=, 233
check_contents_uncompressed, 232
check_contents_use_chksum, 232
check_permissions, 232
check_requisites, 232
check_scripts, 233
check_volatile option, 186
checking
dependencies, 57
states of versions, 57
checkinstall script, 202
details, 211
checkpointing, 136
checkremove script, 202
details, 214
client, definition, 19
client/server, 17
codewords, 23, 233
using, 42, 50, 68, 87, 92
column editor in Job Browser, 27
command lines, executing, 34
command options
alphabetic list of, 228
changing, 37, 227
editor, 29
job-related, 114
precedence, 227
commands
description, 19
overview, 19
SD-UX, 19
communication failure, 45, 89
compatibility filtering, 51
compress_cmd, 233
compress_files, 136, 233, 257
compress_index option, 233
compression, 136
compress_index option, 233
performance, 257
compression_type, 233
config_cleanup_cmd, 234
configuration
phases, 53
samples, 56
configure cleanup, 234
Configure Phase, 54
configure script, 202
details, 213
executing, 54
CONFIGURED state, 52
configuring after installing, 139
container ACL templates, 155, 156
control script
details, 211
environment variables, 207
execution of other commands, 216
file management, 218
format, 205
guidelines, 205
input and output, 216
location, 206
location and execution of, 210
must run as superuser, 157
request, 202, 206, 215
shells, 205
swask command, 221
testing, 218
types, 202
types supported, 166
unpostinstall, 138
unpreinstall, 138
writing, 201
control_files, 234
controller, 116
controller log file, 241
controller privileges, 158
controller_source, 234
controlling access, 157
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