HP-UX Software Assistant Administration Guide (5900-3003, March 2013)

A Useful files and directories
Many of the following files have characteristics that may be modified by extended options, including
the location and name. For more information, see swa-report(1M), swa-get(1M), swa-step(1M),
and swa-clean(1M).
Table 5 SWA Useful Files and Directories
PurposeLocation
The per-user SWA configuration file. This file takes
precedence over the system-wide SWA configuration file.
$HOME/.swa.conf
An HP-supplied catalog file from the HPSC website that
contains known security issues and other defects along
$HOME/.swa/cache/swa_catalog.xml
with their solutions. This file is downloaded with the
command swa report or swa step catalog.
The analysis of the inventory file and the catalog file
created with swa report or swa step analyze.
$HOME/.swa/cache/swa_analysis.xml
The inventory of installed software created by swa
inventory or swa step inventory.
$HOME/.swa/cache/swa_inventory_n.xml
Use this file to specify issues for analyzers to ignore. It is
possible to use more than one ignore file by using the
extended option ignore_file.
$HOME/.swa/ignore
The comprehensive report written by swa report and
swa step report.
$HOME/.swa/report/swa_report.html
Default alternative log file if you don't have permissions to
write to /var/opt/swa/swa.log.
$HOME/.swa/swa.log
Job-specific log file when running HP SIM with an Windows
CMS.
C:\Users\<username>\HP\HP-UX Software
Assistant\<username>\job_<ID>\swa-web.log
SWA log file when running HP SIM on a Windows CMS.C:\Users\<hpsc_user>\HP\HP-UX Software
Assistant\swa_hpsim.log
The default location for the configuration file template when
using HP SIM on a Windows CMS.
C:\Program Files\HP\HP-UX Software
Assistant\swa.conf.template
The system-wide SWA configuration file./etc/opt/swa/swa.conf
An example configuration file outlining the usage of each
extended option.
/etc/opt/swa/swa.conf.template
Script to configure HP SIM for SWA. Only required if SWA
is installed when HP SIM is installed but not running. HP
SIM must be running when configHPSIM is run.
/opt/swa/lbin/configHPSIM
Manpages./opt/swa/share/man
The default directory for downloading software before it
is packaged in a depot. This directory can be set with the
/var/opt/swa/cache
extended option swcache. Note that this directory can
consume a significant amount of disk space.
Directory that holds all clients' files generated from SWA
within HP SIM. Files are kept in user and job-specific
/var/opt/swa/HPSIM
subdirectories. This directory might require significant space
to support clients' analysis, catalog, inventory, and report
files.
The SWA log file when running HP SIM with an HP-UX
CMS.
/var/opt/swa/HPSIM/swa_hpsim.log
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