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
Overview...
This menu item provides information about the currently active SD-UX screen. This includes a list
of the tasks you can do in that screen and a short description of the different areas of the screen
and links to related topics.
Keyboard...
This menu item brings up help on how to use the keyboard to control the application, covering
topics such as selection, menu bar activation and traversal, dialog box traversal, etc.
Using Help...
This menu item displays information about how to use the Help system.
Product Information...
This menu item displays copyright and revision information for SD-UX.
XToolkit Options and Changing Display Fonts
The GUI commands support the following subset of the HP-UX XToolkit command line options:
• -bgor -background
• -fgor -foreground
• -display
• -name
• -xrm
Note that the SD-UX commands do not support the XToolkit -fn or the -font option used to
change display fonts.
SD-UX commands do, however, recognize most Motif™ standard resources when running in the
X11/Motif environment, plus the following additional resources:
*systemFont Specifies the variable-width font used in the GUI menu bars and other areas
where a variable width font is applicable. The default size is 8x13.
*userFont Specifies the fixed-width font used in all other GUI displays. This font should be
the same basic size as the *systemFont only in the fixed width style. The
default size is also 8x13.
Here is an example of how to change the size of your fixed width font from 8x13 to 6x13:
swinstall -xrm ’Swinstall*userFont: user6x13’
Here is how to change the variable width font style to 12 point HP Roman 8:
swinstall -xrm ’Swinstall*systemFont: \
-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal12-120-75-75-m-70-hp-roman8’
You can also modify the defaults file (in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults) for each command
with a Graphical User Interface so that a resource will be set each time you invoke a specific
command. Here is an example of an app-defaults file for swremove:
swremove app-defaults
Swremove*foreground: red
Swremove*background: white
Swremove*userFont: hp8.8x16b
Swremove*systemFont: -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal12-120-75-75-m-70-hp-roman8
Working from the Command Line
You can invoke all SD-UX commands non-interactively via the command line. This section provides
reference information about command-line features available across most of the commands.
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