topic Re: Software products in Operating System - HP-UX

Software products

Sherelle — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 05:25:13 GMT

I need to complete a full software analysis of HP10.20 and 11x. How do I locate software products on HP10.20 & 11.0 systems that do not show up in "swlist -l product" command (Products i.e. as Oracle, etc)? Can anyone assist me?

Re: Software products

Pete Randall — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 05:36:42 GMT

ls /opt should give you all the ones that install there, any others would probably be under /usr somewhere.

Pete

Re: Software products

Thayanidhi — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 06:50:28 GMT

Hi,
Oracle is not installed through sw commands. Oracle instalaltion is not managed through any of the hp-ux sdux tools. Oracle uses its own universal Installer to install/manage.
None of the sw commands will give any output regarding the oracle!

You have use Oracle tools to find out what products installed within oracle.

This may be true for all other RDBMS too.

Regds
TT

Re: Software products

Rick Garland — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 06:58:15 GMT

If there has been shareware/freeware products installed, check the /opt and /usr/local directories. A lot of installs happen there.

Some installs allow you to change the install directory. Example, if you download the source for SUDO and in the config said to install the software elsewhere, you will have to scout that out.

Re: Software products

Mel Burslan — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:50:06 GMT

together with agreeing all of the above, unfortunately, there is no surefire way of telling what is installed on any given HP-UX server if the installation circumvented swinstall. Most apps, traditionally, are setup to install under /usr (as in user applications which why this filesystem/directory were placed in the original unix implementation) or /opt (as in optional products as it materialized in the later unix incarnations) but if you look at the nature of the apps, they can be placed anywhere and are able to run regardless of the placement.

Good luck figuring this out. Not an easy task.

Re: Software products

generic_1 — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:16:18 GMT

Do a find / -name wildcarded and pipe it to a file. Then grep out for command product names you are looking for like psoft, 9.2.* for oracle for example and so on. This is the only way other then hunt and peck or swlist under hpux. Even windows has the same problem do to winziped installs and 3rd party installers.