HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Overview

— Remove cell boards from a partition
— Move a cell board from one partition to another
• Control power to various server components
— Cabinets
— I/O Chassis
— I/O Slots
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Software Distributor (SD)
Software Distributor is a collection of tools used for installing and maintaining
applications and other software on an HP-UX server. Software Distributor is comprised
of the following utilities:
Utilities for Installing and Using Software on Servers The following Software Distributor
utilities are used for installing, removing, and inventory of applications on a server:
swinstall
Used to install software and applications onto an HP-UX operating
system.
swlist
Used to identify what software is installed on a server or available in
a depot.
swremove
Used to remove software and applications from an HP-UX operating
system or from a depot.
swverify
Used to verify software installed on a server. This checks software
states, dependency relationships, file existence and integrity, and runs
vendor-supplied verification scripts.
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://docs.hp.com/en/
SPB.
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.
9. Power to I/O Slots is usually controlled during an Online Replacement and Addition (OLRAD) operation.
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