Chapter 1 Introduction to Software Distributor

This chapter presents an introduction to HP-UX's software management commands - swinstall, swcopy, swremove, swlist, swconfig, swverify, swreg, swcluster, swmodify, swpackage, swagentd, swgettools and swacl — and a short overview of the software management process that uses them. These commands are collectively referred to as SD-UX (for Software Distributor-HP-UX).

There are important concepts explained in this chapter you must know to understand the SD-UX software management commands and their operation.

	NOTE: SD-UX commands manage software on a local host only. To install and manage software simultaneously on multiple remote hosts (including PCs) from a central controller, you must purchase the HP OpenView Software Distributor (HP Prod. No. B1996AA) which provides extended software management and multi-site software distribution capabilities.

SD-UX is based on distributed, client/server technology, and requires some networking functionality on the host system for proper execution. These networking services are only available in Run Level 2 (Multi-User mode) and above. SD-UX cannot run in Single-User mode.