HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Overview HP-UX 11i v3 (B3921-90011, September 2010)

Utilities for Creating and Maintaining Packages of Software for use by the Above Utilities The
following Software Distributor utilities are used for creating and maintaining packages and
installation bundles of software and software installation sources (known as software depots)
that are used by swinstall, swlist, swremove, and swverify:
sd
Invoke interactive interface to display and monitor SD job information, to remove
SD jobs, and to clone/recreate SD jobs. It also functions as an SD "home base" to
create and launch interactive SD tasks.
spb
The Software Package Builder (SPB) provides a graphical user interface for
building SD software packages for use by the other utilities listed here. For
detailed information about SPB, see http://www.hp.com/go/sw-deployment-docs.
Click HP-UX Software Package Builder.
swacl
Used to control access to software depots and installed applications.
swagentd
Part of a pair of processes that control the actual software operations of Software
Distributor. The other process, swagent, is executed by swagentd and is not
executed directly by the user.
swask
Used by SD control scripts to solicit information from a user about the software
choices they have made. The answers given by the user are stored for later use
by swinstall and swconfig.
swconfig
Configures, unconfigures, or reconfigures software on a server. swconfig
transitions software between the INSTALLED and CONFIGURED states
independently of swinstall and swremove.
swcopy
Copies or merges software selections from a software source to one or more
software depot target selections which can then be used as installation sources
by swinstall.
swjob
Display and monitor SD job information and remove SD jobs.
swmodify
Used to modify the attributes of software on a system. This allows you to
manipulate the catalog that describes software installed on the system. For
example, you can adjust the catalog to reflect software that was installed using
methods other than swinstall.
swpackage
Used to construct packages of files that can be installed and maintained on a
server by the Software Distributor.
swreg
Controls the visibility of depots and roots to users who are performing software
management tasks. It can be used to register depots created by swpackage.
Tools for Managing Storage on HP-UX
The following tools are used to manage (or are actually pieces of) the storage stack on HP-UX –
the layers of technology allowing HP-UX to write and read from mass storage devices.
Volume Managers
Volumes are logical containers that are not limited by the boundaries of the underlying physical
disks on which they reside. To applications, file systems, and databases, volumes appear to be
physical disks and are treated as such. HP-UX can use volumes as swap space. Volumes can
contain:
• File Systems
• Swap Space (for paging operations)
• Dump Space (for memory dump operations)
• Mirror copies of other volumes
• Raw disk space managed by an application such as a database manager
Tools for Managing Storage on HP-UX 101