HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Overview

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
Volume managers allow you to group collections of physical storage (usually disk
drives) and then divide the collections into logical entities called logical volumes if you
are using the HP Logical Volume Manager, or simply volumes if you are using the
VERITAS Volume Manager.
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