HP-UX Software Assistant Administration Guide (December 2011)

6 Running SWA from within HP SIM
The Central Management Server
Software Assistant runs on a supported version of HP SIM Central Management Server (CMS). See
“Installing SWA to use within HP SIM” (page 9) for information on installing SWA for HP SIM.
To run SWA from HP SIM on an HP-UX system you must be a privileged user or an authorized
user as described in “Authorizing non-privileged users” (page 37).
If you are logged in as the user “Administrator” on the Windows CMS, inventories will be collected
as the user “root” on remote HP-UX systems. Otherwise, you will be the same user on the HP-UX
system that you are on the Windows CMS.
Launching SWA
Options on the HP SIM menu for SWA are under Tools→Software Assistant:
• Generate report – Launch analyses that result in a comprehensive report. You may run SWA
now, schedule a job, or both.
• Review jobs – View a list of SWA jobs, past and present. See overview information and easily
view the comprehensive report for a job.
HP SIM options for monitoring and maintaining your SWA tasks are available under
:
• “Viewing All Scheduled Tasks” – Manage your scheduled tasks.
• “Viewing Task Results” – See if your jobs completed successfully, and if not, what errors were
generated.
Using the SWA scheduling under HP SIM
The ability to schedule SWA jobs for multiple systems further simplifies the patch and security
bulletin management on HP-UX systems. It's now easy to keep up-to-date and have your systems'
reports waiting for you when you require them. SWA allows you to name your scheduled tasks so
you can track them among all the other HP SIM tasks.
To create and manage a scheduled job:
1. Create the task via the Generate report tool.
2. On the SWA Options page, select Schedule and define the recurrence of your task, as shown
in “Setting report options for SWA in HP SIM”.
Scheduling a job requires a configuration file with your HPSC user ID and password defined
with the extended options hp_id and hp_pw. Specify this configuration file on the SWA
Options page under Configuration Files.
3. Manage your scheduled tasks from the All Scheduled Tasks page immediately after launching
or afterwards via Tasks & Logs→View All Scheduled Tasks..., as described in this section:
“Viewing Task Results” (page 36).
4. See if your tasks finished successfully via Tasks & Logs→View Task Results....
5. View the comprehensive analysis report for your successful jobs from the Review jobs tool.
Generate report
To run an SWA analysis and generate reports, from the HP SIM toolbar, select Tools→Software
Assistant→Generate Report....
Use this menu item if you want to run an analysis immediately or if you want to schedule the analysis
for a later time.
26 Running SWA from within HP SIM