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
and defaults, swremove, 81
changing, 37, 227
compress_index, 233
create_time_filter, 234
editor, 29
job-related, 114
menu, 29
precedence, 227
preserve_create_time, 244
OS update, 237, 246
os_name, 242
os_release, 243
overview, commands, 19
P
package_in_place, 243
packaging
ACLs, 195
CD-ROM, 195
failures, 259
for nonprivileged SD, 225
making tapes, 200
overview, 165, 189
registering depots, 194
remote file systems, 198
repackaging, 197
security, 195
writing to tapes, 199
packaging command, 189
Packaging Specification File (PSF)
and swmodify, 73
partitioning filesets on multiple tapes, 200
patch_commit, 243
patch_filter, 243
patch_match_target, 244
patch_one_liner, 244
patch_save_files, 244
patches, 232, 243
managing, 102
performance, 133
permission bits, 157
permission specification, default, 184
policy-setting, 38, 227
polling interval, increasing, 259
polling_interval, 244
polling_interval option, 259
postinstall script, 202
details, 212
postremove script, 202
details, 215
pre-specified selections, 46, 90, 113
preinstall script, 202
details, 212
preremove script, 202
details, 214
prerequisite, 23, 183
definition, 23
preserve_create_time option, 244
preview, 244
preview option, -p, 46, 55, 80, 90
privileged functions, 157
problem solving, 253
product, 20
description button, 44, 79, 88
description, swremove, 79
level, specifying (swlist), 68
summary button, 44, 79, 88
product ACL
control, 152
permissions, 154
templates, 155, 156
product specification, 177
Product Specification File see PSF
Product Summary, swremove, 79
product-location directory pair, 82
product_specification_file (PSF) for swmodify, 73
product_template, 155
products, 166
Products Ready column, 45, 90
Projected Actions
swremove, 79
proof of trustworthiness, 159
protected software, 23
protected software, installing example, 50
protecting SD objects, 152
protocol sequence, 228, 247
PSF
and swmodify, 73
comment lines, 169
creating, 167
defining default, 250
dependency class, 183
depot class, 175
directory mapping, 185
example, 168
example file specifications, 187
example permission specifications, 185
exclude files, 188
explicit file specification, 185
extensions, 188
file class, 184
fileset class, 180
include files, 188
keyword value, 170
keywords, 169
product class, 177
quotes, 169
recursive file specification, 188
subproduct class, 180
syntax, 169
vendor class, 176
public, 244
pull distribution, security in, 162
pull-down menus, 25
pushAgent, modifies ACLs at install time, 144
R
re-using packages, 197
282 Index