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

-l level List all software objects down to the specified level: depot, bundle,
product, subproduct, fileset or file. (See the section
“Listing Software by Levels” (page 68) for more information on
levels.) You can use only one level designation per command. You
cannot use software names, subproduct names, etc. to specify levels.
This option does not apply if you use the -c option.
Table 12 The -l Options
ActionOption
Shows the root level (roots on the specified
target hosts)
swlist -l root
Shows the shared rootsswlist -l shroot
Shows the private rootsswlist -l prroot
Shows only bundlesswlist -l bundle
Shows only productsswlist -l product
Shows products and subproductsswlist -l subproduct
Shows products, subproducts and filesetsswlist -l fileset
Shows products, subproducts, filesets, files and
numbers (used in software licensing).
swlist -l file
Shows all categories of available patches for
patches that have included category objects in
their definition.
swlist -l category
Shows all applied patches.swlist -l patch
-s source Specify which software source is to be listed. The default source
type is a directory or depot (usually /var/spool/sw) on the local
host. 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 Run the command based on values saved from a previous installation
session, as defined in session_file. See “Session Files”
(page 39).
-t target_file Read a list of target selections from a separate file instead of (or in
addition to) the command line.
-x option=value Sets a command option to value and overrides default values
or a values in options files. See “Changing Command Options”
(page 65).
-X option_file Read session options and behaviors from option_file. See
“Changing Command Options” (page 65).
software_selections The software objects to be listed. See “Software Selections”
(page 35).
target_selections The target of the command. (For swlist, target_selections are just
another way to list software selections.
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