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
In the following examples, swlist requests are sent to the standard output. All examples assume
the one_liner= default is “revision size title” and the level= default is “product.”
• To list the contents of the local tape depot, /dev/rmt/0m, type:
swlist -d @ /dev/rmt/0m
— or —
swlist -s /dev/rmt/0m
This produces the following output
AUDIT 3.5 9834 Trusted Systems Auditing Utils
COMMANDS 1.7 4509 Core Command Set
C-LANG 2.5 5678 C Programming Language
NETWORKING 2.1 9072 Network Software
KERNEL 1.4 56908 Kernel Libraries and Headers
VUE 1.3 5489 Vue (Instant Ignition Release)
WINDOWS 2.06 10423 Windowing Products
• List all the media attributes of the local tape depot, /dev/rmt/0m:
swlist -v -l depot @ /dev/rmt/0m
— or —
swlist -vl depot -s dev/rmt/0m
type distribution
tag CORE OS
description HP-UX Core Operating System Software Disk
number B2358-13601
mod_date June 1998
• List the README file for product, OS_CORE installed on the local host:
swlist -a readme OS-Core | more
readme:
****************
* Introduction *
****************
The Release Notes for HP-UX Release X.0 contain an
overview of the new/changed product features that
are included in the release. For detailed
information about these features, refer to the
appropriate product manuals. This document does not
contain information about software changes made as a
result of a Service Request; that information may be
found in the Software Release Bulletin (SRB) for Release X.0.
********************
* Hardware Support *
********************
The HP 9000 Model XXX is no longer supported.
...
• List the products stored in the software depot on host1 located at /swmedia. For this example
assume the swlist one_liner is: “title size architecture”:
swlist -d @ host1:/swmedia
FRAME Frame Doc. Pkg 2319 HP-UX_9000_Series_AorB
FRAME Frame Doc. Pkg 2458 OSF1_9000_Series_1.0
ME30 3-D Mech. Eng 5698 HP-UX_9000_Series300_AorB
SOFTBENCH Dev Env 4578 HP-UX_9000_Series300
TEAMWORK Design/Analysis 3478 HP-UX_9000_Series 300/400
(Note that the media contains two revisions of the FRAME product.)
66 Managing Installed Software