topic Re: swlist in Operating System - HP-UX

swlist

ikbea — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 21:17:22 GMT

Hi all,

For list all software installed in HPUX server,
use
swlist -l bundle or product ?

Thanks

Re: swlist

ikbea — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 21:18:33 GMT

and exclude the default installed software

Re: swlist

Mel Burslan — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 22:19:00 GMT

yes that is correct but keep in mind that some products do not get installed using swinstall, hence does not show up on this list. It is your responsibility as the sysadmin to keep a tab on those. Some examples to this kind of software are oracle, veritas (now symantec) netbackup and many more.

Re: swlist

ikbea — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 23:01:22 GMT

what's the different between using
"swlist -l bundle" and "swlist -l product"?

Does "Bundle" mean "when install OS, the bundled software is also installed" ?

Re: swlist

Mel Burslan — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 00:16:23 GMT

swinstall has a hierarcy of levels

a "bundle" may contain one or more "products"
a "product" may contain one or more "filesets"
a "fileset" contains one or more files and the lowest level you can specify after the -l switch to a swlist command

hope this helps.

Re: swlist

Hakan Aribas — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 03:29:33 GMT

if you want to see installed patches, use the following swlist command:

swlist -l product *,c=patch

Re: swlist

Bharat Katkar — Sat, 17 Sep 2005 07:04:21 GMT

Hi,
# swlist -l bundle
This will list all bundle's and products which are not part of any bundle.

# swlist -l product
This will list all products installed on your system.

# swlist -l fileset
Displays all fileset installed on your System.

OS software itself contains some Bundles and also products which may not be part of Bundles.
So its a combination of Bundles and individual products.

To further customize this command you can use grep.
# swlist | grep "xyz"
Other ways swlist can be used is as:
# swlist -l patch
Displays all patches installed.
# swlist -l depot
Display all depot registered on the server.
# swlist -l product "Product Name"
Display information related to that product.

Hope that helps.
Regards.

Re: swlist

Bob_Vance — Sun, 18 Sep 2005 11:48:30 GMT

To answer your question:

Does "Bundle" mean "when install OS, the bundled software is also installed" ?

No.
As explained previously, in Software Distributor, "bundle" is just another grouping level. Any software could be delivered as a bundle or not or even as a combo of some bundle and some simple products.

At HPUX-install time, yes, some bundles *are* installed, while other software is simple products (like some patches). But just looking for bundles is not going to give you what was installed originally versus what was installed later.

HP typically releases their software as bundles, so, e.g., the ANSI-C compiler, perl, SSH, or MirrorDisk/UX could have been installed later, but all are installed as bundles.

Other, simple software distributions might be just a "product" level, like "VNC".

bv