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
-i Run the command in interactive mode by invoking the GUI
or TUI. See “Installing with the GUI” (page 41).
-p Preview the install task (perform analysis only).
-r Operate on an alternate root directories. See “Installing to
an Alternate Root ” (page 51).
-v Turn on verbose output to stdout and display all activity to
the screen.
-c catalog Store a copy of a response file or other files created by a
request script in catalog. See “Requesting User Responses
(swask)” (page 221).
-C session_file Save the current option and operand values to session_file
for reuse in another session. See “Session Files” (page 39).
-f software_file Read the software selections from software_file instead of (or
in addition to) software you specify on the command line.
See “Software Files” (page 36).
-Q date Schedules a job for the given date when remote operations
are enabled. See “Scheduling Jobs from the Command Line”
(page 115) and Chapter 7: “Remote Operations Overview”
(page 116)
-s source Use the software source specified by source instead of the
default, /var/spool/sw. The syntax is: [host][:]-
[/directory] | [./relative_path] |
[../relative_path]
host may be a host name, domain name, or internet address
(for example, 15.1.48.23). directory is an absolute path.
To specify a relative_path when no host is specified, the
relative_path must start with ./ or ../; otherwise, the
specified name is considered as a host.
-S session_file Use option and operand values saved from a previous
installation session and stored in session_file. See
“Session Files” (page 39).
-t target_file Read target selections from a target_file instead of (or in
addition to) targets you specify on the command line. See
“Target Files” (page 37).
-x command_option=value Sets command_option to value, overriding default values
or values in options files. See “Changing Command Options
” (page 47).
-X option_file Read session options and behaviors from option_file.
See “Changing Command Options ” (page 47).
software_selections One or more software objects to be installed. See “Software
Selections” (page 35).
target_selections The target on which to install the software selections. See
“Target Selections” (page 37).
Changing Command Options
You can change the behavior of this command by specifying additional command-line options
when you invoke the command (using the -x option) or by reading predefined values from a file.
The following table shows the defaults and options that apply to swinstall.
Installation with swinstall 47