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
fixed width, 34
variable width, 34
G
global_product_template, 144, 148, 155
global_soc_template, 144, 155
go up, 31
Graphical User Interface (GUI), 19, 23, 41, 77, 85
swlist, 61, 129
group
access, 158
ACL, 151
GUI
will not start, 255
GUI and TUI
swlist, 61
H
help
f1 key, 33
menu, 33
on-line, 33
host
definition, 19
re-using in Job Browser, 112
host ACL, 156
permissions, 153
hosts keyword, 119
HP-UX SD Controller
definition, 116
I
images, depot, 257
include file, 188
include_file_revisions, 237
input files, 49
insert permission, 93
install
analysis, 42, 78, 87
compatibility filtering, 51
dialog, 46, 79
failure, 260
icon in Job Browser, 105
PC, staging, 137
preferences, 126
recovery, 138
restricting, 162
retries, 134
retrying, 135
staged, 137
UNIX, staging, 137
UNIX, using alternate sources, 137
UNIX, with separate configure, 139
install-sd
options, 262
supporting files, 262
syntax, 262
updating SD with, 262
install_cleanup_cmd, 237
install_setup_cmd, 237
installation see install
Installed Products Database see IPD
INSTALLED state, 52
installed_software_catalog, 237
inter-host secrets, 257
interactive option, -i, 46, 61, 90, 113, 129
intermediate depots, 137
internal authentication, SD, 158
interpreter, script, 204
IPD, 21, 72, 265
editing, 21, 73
is_kernel attribute, 180
is_locatable attribute, 178, 180
is_reboot attribute, 50, 180
J
Job Browser
actions you can perform, 108
copy icon, 105
copying jobs, 112
description, 104
description of icons, 104
install icon, 105
invoking, 103
job with warnings icon, 105
properties, 107
re-using a source or target, 112
remove job, 112
remove job icon, 106
scheduled job icon, 105
security checks, 163
showing errors, 106, 109
job description, 111
job log, 111
job results, 109
job_title, 115, 237
jobs
monitoring from command line, 112
options, 114
re-using job information, 112
removing with swjob, 113
K
kernel
rebuilding, 40
rebuilding for swcopy, 85
kernel build, 235
kernel fileset, 228
kernel_build_cmd, 238
kernel_path, 238
keyword syntax, PSF, 170
keywords
checkinstall script, details, 211
checkremove script, details, 214
configure script, details, 213
postinstall script, details, 212
postremove script, details, 215
preinstall script, details, 212
280 Index