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
copy
dialog, 90
copying software
depots, 85
icon in Job Browser, 105
Job Browser, 112
corequisite, 23, 183
definition, 23
CORRUPT state, 53
cpio tape format, 191
create_target_acls, 195, 234, 257
create_target_path, 234
create_time_filter option, 234
creating a job, 108
creating jobs, 112
creation time, 244
credentials, 158
crwit, 152
custom lists, 67
customer identification number, 234
customer IDs, using, 50, 68, 92
customer_id, 234
customer_id, using, 50, 68, 92
customer_ids, 23
D
daemon, 20
restarting, 38, 227
daemon logfile, 259
daemon/agent, 116
privileges, 159
DCE runtime library, 158
DCE-less operation, 158
default
option values, 37, 227
policy setting, 38, 227
precedence, 37, 227
swlist, 67
values, changing (swask), 222
values, changing (swconfig), 55, 193
values, changing (swcopy), 91
values, changing (swinstall), 47, 113
values, changing (swlist), 65
values, changing (swmodify), 75
values, changing (swreg), 94
values, changing (swremove), 81, 143
values, changing (swverify), 59
default options, listing of, 60, 65, 76, 81, 92, 94, 143,
193, 222
default secret, replacing, 257
default template ACL entries, 156
default values, changing, 38, 227
defaults.hosts file, 119
defer_configuration, 235
defer_configure default, 52
defer_configure option, 139
definition
architecture field, 73
attributes, 61
bundles, 20
catalog files, 21, 72
client, 19
corequisite, 23
depot, 19, 83
fileset, 20
host, 19
Installed Products Database, 21, 72
local host, 19
locatable products, 51
nodes, 19
prerequisite, 23
product, 20
server, 19
session files, 39
software objects, 20
software selection files, 36, 37
subproduct, 20
system, 19
tags, 73
target, 19
uname attributes, 73
delegation, 161
denied access, troubleshooting, 256
dependencies, 22, 52, 57, 235
swconfig, 53
swcopy, 85
dependents, 231
depot
ACL control, 152
ACL permissions, 154
advertising, 93
authorization, 93
cannot read, 260
CD-ROM, 195
copying, 85
definition, 19, 83
directory, 84
distribution, 19, 83
images, 257
listing, 99
listing contents, 100
lists, 70
management, 83
multiple, 84
on remote file systems, 198
registering, 93
registration, 93
removing software from, 77, 101
secure registration, 161
swreg command, 93, 94
tape, 84
unregistered, 93, 161
unregistering, 93
description file, 42, 78, 87
developers, security for, 162
development depots for testing purposes, 162
direct access to Support Plus, 93, 95
directory
278 Index