Software Distributor (SD-UX) Administration Guide HP-UX 11i v1, 11i v2, and 11i v3 (762797-001, March 2014)
Table Of Contents
- Software Distributor Administration Guide
- Contents
- HP secure development lifecycle
- About This Document
- 1 Introduction to Software Distributor
- SD-UX Overview
- SD-UX Concepts
- Using the GUI and TUI Commands
- The Terminal User Interface
- Starting the GUI/TUI Commands
- Window Components
- Opening and closing items in the object list
- Marking Items in the Object List
- Preselecting Host Files
- Software Selection Window
- Session and File Management—The File Menu
- Changing Software Views—The View Menu
- Changing Options and Refreshing the Object List—The Options Menu
- Performing Actions—The Actions Menu
- Getting Help—The Help Menu
- XToolkit Options and Changing Display Fonts
- Working from the Command Line
- 2 Installing Software
- Installation with swinstall
- Features and Limitations
- Installing with the GUI
- Installing from the Command Line
- Installation Tasks and Examples
- Updating to HP-UX 11i
- Installing Patches
- Recovering Updated Files
- Installing Software That Requires a System Reboot
- Using Software Codewords and Customer IDs
- Re-installing Software Distributor
- Installing Multiple Versions
- Installing to an Alternate Root
- Compatibility Filtering and Checking
- Software Selection Checking
- Configuring Your Installation (swconfig)
- Verifying Your Installation (swverify)
- Installation with swinstall
- 3 Managing Installed Software
- 4 Managing Software Depots
- Depot Management Commands and Concepts
- Copying Software Depots
- Registering and Unregistering Depots (swreg)
- Verifying Signed Software Signatures
- Additional Depot Management Tasks and Examples
- Combining Patch Depots
- Creating a Tape Depot for Distribution
- Setting Depot Attributes
- Creating a Network Depot
- Managing Multiple Versions of HP-UX
- Listing Registered Depots
- Listing the Contents of a Depot (swlist -d)
- Source Depot Auditing
- Verifying a Depot (swverify -d)
- Removing Software from Depots
- Removing a Depot
- 5 HP-UX Patching and Patch Management
- 6 Using Jobs and the Job Browser
- 7 Remote Operations Overview
- 8 Reliability and Performance
- 9 SD-UX Security
- 10 Creating Software Packages
- Overview of the Packaging Process
- Identifying the Products to Package
- Adding Control Scripts
- Creating a Product Specification File (PSF)
- Product Specification File Examples
- PSF Syntax
- PSF Object Syntax
- Selecting the PSF Layout Version
- PSF Value Types
- Product Specification File Semantics
- Re-Specifying Files
- Packaging the Software (swpackage)
- Packaging Tasks and Examples
- Registering Depots Created by swpackage
- Creating and Mastering a CD-ROM Depot
- Compressing Files to Increase Performance
- Packaging Security
- Repackaging or Modifying a Software Package
- Packaging In Place
- Following Symbolic Links in the Source
- Generating File Revisions
- Depots on Remote File Systems
- Verifying the Software Package
- Packaging Patch Software
- Writing to Multiple Tapes
- Making Tapes from an Existing Depot
- 11 Using Control Scripts
- Introduction to Control Scripts
- General Script Guidelines
- Packaging Control Scripts
- Using Environment Variables
- Execution of Control Scripts
- Execution of Other Commands by Control Scripts
- Control Script Input and Output
- File Management by Control Scripts
- Testing Control Scripts
- Requesting User Responses (swask)
- Request Script Tasks and Examples
- 12 Nonprivileged SD
- A Command Options
- B Troubleshooting
- Error Logging
- Common Problems
- Cannot Contact Target Host’s Daemon or Agent
- GUI Won’t Start or Missing Support Files
- Access To An Object Is Denied
- Slow Network Performance
- Connection Timeouts and Other WAN Problems
- Disk Space Analysis Is Incorrect
- Packager Fails
- Command Logfile Grows Too Large
- Daemon Logfile Is Too Long
- Cannot Read a Tape Depot
- Installation Fails
- swinstall or swremove Fails With a Lock Error
- Use of Square Brackets ([ and ]) Around an IPv6 Address Causes an Error
- Some SD commands do not work after network configuration changes
- C Replacing or Updating SD-UX
- D Software Distributor Files and File System Structure
- Glossary
- Index
* (If not concerned with the machine type.)
9000/7??:32* (Series 700, 32-bit capable hardware required)
*:*64 (64-bit capable hardware required)
*:32: (32-bit capable hardware required)
9000/7??:*64 (Series 700, 64-bit capable hardware required)
9000/[78]??:32* (Series 800, 32-bit capable hardware required)
9000/[78]??:*64 (Series 800, 64-bit capable hardware required)
The value is matched against a target’s uname -m or getconf
_CS_HW_CPU_SUPP_BITS result.
number The part or order number of the product.
os_name The operating system name on which the product will run. If not specified, the
attribute is assigned a value of *, meaning it will run on all operating systems.
If there are multiple operating systems, use wildcards or the | symbol to
separate them. The value is matched against a target’s uname -s or getconf
_CS_KERNEL_BITS result.
os_release The release number of the product’s operating system. If not specified, the
attribute is assigned a value of *, meaning it will run on all operating systems.
If there are multiple operating systems, use wildcards or the | symbol to
separate them. The value is matched against a target’s uname -r result.
os_version The version number of the operating system(s) on which the product will run.
If not specified, the attribute is assigned a value of *, meaning it runs on any
version. If there are multiple operating systems, use wildcards or the | symbol
to separate them. The value is matched against a target’s uname -v result.
postkernel Defines a kernel build script to be executed when kernel filesets are loaded.
Kernel filesets have the is_kernel attribute set to true. The default kernel
script is /usr/sbin/mk_kernel. (See the manual reference page for
mk_kernel(1M) for more information.) The default script executes when the
postkernel attribute is not specified. Only one kernel build script is allowed
per product, and the script executes only once, even if defined for multiple
filesets.
readme A text file of the README information for the product. The value must be a
pointer to the filename containing the text
revision The revision information (release number, version) for the product or bundle.
title A one-line string that further identifies the product or bundle.
vendor_tag Associates this product or bundle with a vendor object defined separately in
the PSF, if that object has a matching tag attribute.
end Ends the product or bundle specification. No value is required. This keyword
is optional. If you use it and it is incorrectly placed, the specification will fail.
Control Script Specification
SD-UX supports execution of product and fileset control scripts that allow you to perform additional
checks and operations with other HP-UX commands and functions. The swask, swinstall,
swconfig, swverify, and swremove commands each can execute one or more control scripts
on the primary roots. All scripts are optional but many times are needed correctly complete the
task that you want your software package to perform. See Chapter 11: “Using Control Scripts ”
(page 201) for a complete discussion of control scripts.
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