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

-S session_file Run the command based on values saved from a previous removal
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. See “Target Files” (page 37).
-x option=value Sets a command option to value and overrides default values
or a values in options files. See “Changing Command Options”
(page 81).
-X option_file Read session options and behaviors from option_file. See
“Changing Command Options” (page 81).
software_selections The software objects to be removed. See “Software Selections”
(page 35).
target_selections The target of the command. 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 -xoption) or by reading predefined values from a file.
The following table shows the defaults and options that apply to swremove.
Table 19 swremove Command Options and Default Values
• loglevel=1• admin_directory=/var/adm/sw
• •agent_auto_exit=true lookupcache_timeout_minutes=10
•• mount_all_filesystems=trueagent_timeout_minutes=10000
• •auto_kernel_build=true polling_interval=2
•• preview=falseautoreboot=false
• •autoremove_job=false remove_empty_depot=true
•• remove_empty_depot_directory=falseautoselect_dependents=false
• •autoselect_reference_bundles= true reuse_short_job_numbers=true
•• rpc_binding_info=ncacn_ip_tcp:[2121]
ncadg_ip_udp:[2121]
compress_index=false
• controller_source=
• rpc_timeout=5
• distribution_target_directory= /var/spool/sw
• run_as_superuser=true
• enforce_dependencies=true
• run_scripts=true
• enforce_scripts=true
• select_local=true
• enforce_selections=false
• software=
• force_single_target=false
• software_view=products
• installed_software_catalog=products
• target_directory=
• job_title=
• targets=
• loadorder_use_coreqs=true
• verbose=1
• log_msgid=0
• write_remote_files=false
• logdetail=false
• logfile=/var/adm/sw/swremove.log
For More Information
See Appendix A (page 227) for complete descriptions of each default.
Remove Tasks and Examples
To remove a software product called MYSOFT from the default depot on the local host, type:
swremove -d MYSOFT
Removing Installed Software (swremove) 81