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
for developers, 162
in "push" installations, 161
packaging, 195
pull distribution, 162
UNIX, 157
security checks
configuration, 164
copying, 163
installing, 163
Job Browser, 163
listing, 163
packaging, 163
registering depots, 164
removal, 164
verifying, 164
security tasks, 144
select_local, 248
selecting software to copy, 87
selecting software to remove, 77
server, definition, 19
session
file, example, 39
files, 39
session file option, -S, 46, 55, 58, 64, 73, 80, 90, 94,
113, 192, 221
setuid root, 196
shareable files, 165
shared secrets file, 159
shells, control script, 205
show description of software, 42, 78, 87
show software for selection, 42, 87
show_superseded_patches, 249
single target installation, 122
Single-User mode, 17
software
dependencies, 22, 52, 57
objects, 20
selection file option, -f, 46, 55, 58, 63, 64, 73, 80,
90, 94, 113, 192, 221
selection files, 36, 37
source option, -s, 46, 64, 90, 221
Software Certificate, 23
software compatibility, 228
Software Distributor
introduction, 17
software group, 134
adding, 78
saving, 78
software installation, 228
software level, 238
software selection
remote operations, 124
Software Selection Window, 42, 87
software view, 249
software view default, 249
software=, 249
software_view, 249
sorting, 29
source, 249
adding, 86
adding a, 32, 42
depot path, 32, 42, 86
host name, 32, 42, 86
network, 83
re-using in Job Browser, 112
Source Option, 134
source_cdrom, 249
source_depot_audit, 249
source_directory, 250
source_file, 250
source_tape, 250
source_type, 250
space files, 204
Specify Source Dialog, 41, 86
SRP, 240
staged installation, 137
staging, 137
states of versions, 57
structure
determining product, 166
software, 165
software product, 20
stty, using to determine character mapping, 37, 130
subproduct, 20, 166
level, specifying (swlist), 69
specification, 180
superuser
ACL access, 150
authorization, 161
privileges, 157
swpackage, 196
supporting files
install-sd, 262
SW-DIST
loading new version, 262
reloading if corrupt, 262
SW_CONTROL_DIRECTORY, 208
SW_DEFERRED_KERNBLD, 209
SW_INITIAL_INSTALL, 210
SW_KERNEL_PATH, 210
SW_LOCATION, 208
SW_PATH, 209
SW_ROOT_DIRECTORY, 209
SW_SYSTEM_FILE_PATH, 210
swacl, 164
-D option, 149
-F option, 149
-l depot option, 144
-l host option, 144
-l product option, 144
-l root option, 144
-M option, 149
command, 142
listing user access, 144
options, 142
overview, 17
swadm group, 143
swagent, 20, 116
284 Index