HP-UX Software Assistant Release Notes (December 2011)

Version C.01.02
9/2007 Media Release
• Added to the HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) Applications media.
• Improved the functionality of the swa —? option. This offers context sensitive help on the
command line.
◦ Use swa <mode> -? to see which options apply to a specific mode.
◦ Use swa <—option> -? to see a list and description of extended options.
◦ Use swa -x option=-? to get information on the allowable values for an extended
option.
• Improved manpages.
Version C.01.01
6/2007 Media Release
• Added to the HP-UX 11i v2 (B.11.23) Operating Environment (OE) media.
• Added to the HP-UX 11i v1 (B.11.11) Applications media.
• Supported the checking of certificate revocation lists (CRLs).
• Improved messaging and manpages.
• Supported relative paths to depots.
• Added the proxy extended option. See the swa-report(1M) manpage.
• Improved handling of inventory files where the hostname and nodename differed.
• Allowed read access by non-root users to allow creation of depots by non-privileged users.
Write access to this directory is still restricted, so the value of 'swcache' must be set to an
alternate location to allow non-root users to download software.
Version C.01.00
1/2007 Web Release and 2/2007 Media Release
• Initial release of SWA.
• Included in initial release of HP-UX 11i v3 (B.11.31).
• Allows analysis of HP-UX 11.0 systems.
• Provided a command line interface only.
• Used as a client-side patch and security analysis/acquisition tool. It has ITRC Patch Assessment
Tool and Security Patch Check capabilities with a few minor exceptions, namely, certificate
revocation list (CRL) checking and patch set analysis.
• Used to analyze a system (and some types of depots) for patch warnings, critical defects,
security bulletins, missing Quality Pack patch bundle, and user-specified patches and patch
chains.
• Provided an HP-supplied catalog file to analyze a system and generate reports.
• Optimized the automatic selection of patch dependencies, thereby minimizing system and
patch dependency changes.
• Produced the Action, Issue, and Detail Reports as well as a consolidated HTML report for you
to see what issues are relevant to the software on the system or in the depot.
• Provided the ability to download patches and build a Software Distributor (SD-UX) depot which
will fix many of the issues in the report. You would also use SWA to see recommended
additional actions in the report which you need to take care of manually.
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