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
/var/tmp, 262
directory depot, 84
directory mapping, 185
directory structures, 165
disk space
analysis, 259
analysis by swpackage, 190
analysis dialog, 44
button, 44, 45, 88, 89
failure, 45, 89
space files, 204
specifying requirements, 204
diskless clusters, 17
distribution depot specification, 175
distribution directory, 235
distribution tape, 241
distribution tape format, 191
distribution tape, creating a, 192
distribution_source_directory, 235
distribution_target_directory, 235
distribution_target_serial, 235
documentation
manpages, 19
double click, 31
E
enablement
direct access, 93, 95
enforce_dependencies, 235
enforce_dependencies default, 22
swconfig, 52
enforce_dsa, 235
enforce_kernbld_failure, 235
enforce_locatable, 236
enforce_scripts, 236
enforce_selections, 236
environment variables
control scripts, 207
LANG, 207
LC_ALL, 208
error message, control scripts, 205
errors
ACL, 149
cannot read tape depot, 260
daemon logfile, 259
denied access, 256
disk space analysis is incorrect, 259
GUI will not start, 255
installation fails, 260
installing a fileset, 136
messages, 253
network, 258
PSF syntax, 190
reading the PSF, 169
represented in Job Browser, 105, 109
resolving, 253
RPC timeouts, 258
swpackage, 187, 188
troubleshooting, 253
UNIX packaging, 259
WAN connection timeouts, 258
examples
command options, 38
request script, 223
session file, 39
swask, 223
swconfig, 56
swmodify, 76
swremove, 81
swverify, 60
exclude file, 188
excluded
due to errors, 45, 89
from task, 45, 89
exrequisite, 183
F
f1 key, Help, 33
failed operations, 253
features, swpackage, 192
file
catalog, 21, 72
compression, 136
defaults.hosts, 119
exclude, 188
include, 188
level checks, swverify, 57
level specifying (swlist), 69
response, 215, 221
secrets, 159
session, 39
shareable, 165
software, 36
space, 204
target, 37
file menu, 106
file specification, 184
explicit, 185
recursive (implicit), 188
file structures, 165
file system mounting, 242
file system protection, 157
files option, 236
fileset, 20
level, specifying (swlist), 69
product structure, 166
specification, 180
filesystem structure
SD-UX agent, 264
SD-UX controller, 265
filter, 28
fix, 236
fix script, 202
flag
"yes", 25
Marked?, 42, 78, 87
follow_symlinks, 236
fonts
279