Software Distributor (SD-UX) Administration Guide HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, and 11i v3 (762797-001, March 2014)

Installing Software That Requires a System Reboot
Software packaged with the is_reboot attribute set to true requires the host to be rebooted after
the software is installed. However, when installing to alternate root file systems, the host will not
be rebooted.
If a local installation entails a reboot, the system reboots the target and the controller, so there is
no process left to report success or failure. (SD-UX does not automatically reconnect to the target
after a reboot.)
To find out if a software product requires the local host to be rebooted, get a description of the
software either from the Software Selection window, using the menu item Show Description of
Software, or from the Analysis dialog using the Product Summary and Product Description buttons.
Using Software Codewords and Customer IDs
To protect software from unauthorized installation, HP (and other vendors) use special codewords
and customer identification numbers to “lock” the software to a particular owner. These codewords
and customer IDs are provided to you when you purchase the software (or receive it as update).
HP lists them on the Software Certificate which is packaged with the software.
To properly store the customer_id/codeword for a CD-ROM, you can run swinstall (or swcopy
or swlist) on the host serving the CD-ROM. After the codeword has been stored, clients installing
software using that host and CD-ROM as a source will no longer require a codeword or customer_id.
SD searches the.codewords file on the server that is providing protected software to other hosts.
It looks for valid customer_id/codeword pairs. In doing so, SD eliminates the need for you to enter
codewords and customer_ids on every host that is “pulling” the software.
This is a time saver if you are updating multiple systems.
SD-UX prompts you for these codewords or numbers prior to the installation of protected software.
You can enter or change the numbers via the GUI using the Add New Codeword choice from the
Actions menu in the GUI, or by using the appropriate default option on the command line:
• -x codeword=xxxx
• -x customer_id=xxx
For example, if you want to store the codeword 123456789101bcdf (from the /CD-ROM mount
point) and your customer_id was xyzCorp, you would enter on the command line:
# swinstall -p -x customer_id=xyzCorp \
-x codeword=123456789101bcdf \
-s /CD_ROM
(Since the purpose of this command is only to store codewords and customer IDs, the -p option
runs the command in preview mode so that no actual software installation takes place.)
The swinstall command supports upto 124 codewords per CD part number.
See Appendix A (page 227) for more information on codeword and customer_id options.
Re-installing Software Distributor
The software product called SW-DIST provides all Software Distributor functionality, commands,
and tools. If the files that make up SW-DIST are deleted or corrupted, you may need to re-install
the product. This process uses the new install-sd command, which is described in Appendix C
(page 262).
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