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
target selection
remote operations, 119, 122
target_directory, 251
target_tape, 251
target_type, 192, 251
targets option, 250
task specific permissions, 163
TCP/IP
protocol, 258
template ACL, 155
default entries, 156
Terminal User Interface (TUI), 19, 23, 41, 77, 85
terminate write-to-tape command, 199
testing
configuration scripts, 219
installation scripts, 218
removal scripts, 220
timeout, 248
connection, 258
options, 134
resolving problems, 258
too-restrictive permissions, 195
Trojan Horse, 161
troubleshooting SD, 253
tutorial prerequisites, 121
U
UDP communications, 258
umask value, 184
uname attributes, 51, 73
uncompress_cmd, 251
uncompress_files, 136, 251
unconfigure script, 202
details, 213
UNCONFIGURED state, 54
unconfiguring
removed software, 76
UNIX
run level, 17
user mode, 17
unpostinstall script, 202
for autorecovery, 138
unpreinstall script, 202
for autorecovery, 138
unregistered depot, 93, 161
unregistering a depot, 93
updating
creating a network depot, 98
HP-UX, 262
SD-UX, 262
use_alternate_source, 137, 251
user
access, 158
ACL, 151
ACL matching, 150
user managing products in depots, 146
using depots, 83
V
var/spool/sw, 84
vendor
defined attributes, 175
keyword, 176
specification, 176
verbose, 251
listings, samples, 72
lists, 70
option, -v, 46, 52, 58, 80, 90, 94, 113, 192
verify
analysis phase, 57
installations, 57
operations, samples, 60
script, 202, 233
script, details, 213, 214
scripts, executing, 57
verify_signature, 251
Verify_signature_Only, 252
versions, 139
view menu, 106
view preferences, changing, 27
volatile, 233
W
WAN, 134, 137
WAN connection timeouts, 258
warning, 247
wide area network, 137
wildcard, 199
wildcarding, partial, 188
window
GUI components, 24
Software Selection, 42, 87
swremove, 79
writable depot, 84
write permission, 93
write-to-tape, terminate, 199
write_remote_files, 198, 252
X
XToolkit
-fn option, 34
-font option, 34
286 Index