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
preremove script, details, 214
unconfigure script, details, 213
values, control scripts, 205
verify script, details, 213, 214
L
LANG environment variable, 207
language environment variables, 207, 208
layout_version, 238
LC_ALL environment variable, 208
level
designation, swlist, 63, 68
of detail, swlist, 61
level=, 238
level= default, 67, 68
list
as input to other commands, 61
depot, 70
simple, 65
verbose, 70
listing
interactive swlist, 61, 129
registered depots, 99
software, 61
UNIX depot contents, 100
loadorder_use_coreqs, 239
local host
definition, 19
local superuser, 161
local_srp_list, 240
locatable products, 51
locked software, 50, 68, 92
log file messages, 240
log_msgid, 240
logdetail, 240
logfile, 44, 79, 88, 241
button, 45, 89
swpackage, 194
swremove, 79
too long, 259
loglevel, 241
loglevel option, 136
lookupcache_timeout_minutes, 241
M
making tapes (existing depot), 200
management responsibility, assigning, 162
managing
multiple versions, 51
patches, 102
manpages, 19
mark
for copy, 77
for install, 42, 77
for remove, 77
marked, 25
Marked? flag, 42, 78, 87
master and intermediate depots, consistency between,
138
master depot, 137
mastering a depot to a CD-ROM, 195
Match-What-Target-Has, 42
match_target, 42, 180, 241
matching ACLs to user, 150
max_agents, 241
max_targets, 134, 241
media_capacity, 199, 241
media_type, 242
menubar, 25
menus, pull-down, 25
minimum_job_polling_interval, 242
mode bits, 159
modifying default values, 38, 227
modifying target groups, 120
monitoring job results, 128
mount_all_filesystems, 242
mount_cmd, 242
mouse, clicking, 25
Multi-User mode, 17
multiple depots, 84
multiple tapes, writing to, 199
multiple versions, 139
in depots, 92
installing, 51
removing, 82
swconfig, 53
N
network
errors, 258
problems, 257
protocols, 258
network depot, creating, 98
network requirements, 17
network servers, 83
network source, 83
networking requirements, 17
nodes, definition, 19
nonprivileged SD, 224
limitations, 224
overview, 224
packaging requirements, 225
set up, 225
num_entries value, 257
O
object list, 25
object permissions, 152
objects, software, 20
objects_to_register, 242
on-line Help, 33
one_liner, 242
one_liner= default, 67, 68
open item, 31
option menu, 107
options
alphabetic list of, 228
and defaults, swconfig, 75
281