topic Re: swmodify question in Operating System - HP-UX

swmodify question

Raf_L — Mon, 04 May 2009 08:22:58 GMT

Team,

on my depot server (original):
[u51cf28:/root]# swlist -l product @ /tmp/RAF/rafdepot/ | more
# Initializing...
# Contacting target "u51cf28"...
#
# Target: u51cf28:/tmp/RAF/rafdepot/
#

BindUpgrade C.9.3.2.3.0 BIND special release upgrade
Lsof A.12.00-4.81.001 Tool to report a list of all open files and theprocesses that opened them
PHNE_33766 1.0 Bind 8.1.2 Patch
WBEMServices A.02.07.04 WBEM Services CORE Product for hp 9000 servers
WBEMServices A.02.07.04 WBEM Services CORE Product
WBEMServices A.02.05.08 WBEM Services CORE Product

Then I tried:
[u51cf28:/root]# swmodify -d -a title="test1" WBEMServices @ /tmp/RAF/rafdepot/
[u51cf28:/root]# swlist -l product @ /tmp/RAF/rafdepot/ | more
# Initializing...
# Contacting target "u51cf28"...
#
# Target: u51cf28:/tmp/RAF/rafdepot/
#

BindUpgrade C.9.3.2.3.0 BIND special release upgrade
Lsof A.12.00-4.81.001 new string
PHNE_33766 1.0 Bind 8.1.2 Patch
WBEMServices A.02.07.04 test1
WBEMServices A.02.07.04 test1
WBEMServices A.02.05.08 test1

So that worked.

Question: how to use swmodify to only change an attribute of 1 target ?
Reason for asking: we are using software X; However, X has 2 different versions (1 for PA, 1 for IA64) but both look identical in swlist.
So I would like to "rename" X to Y for the PA version and X to Z for the IA64 version.
(more or less the same here with WBEM, but for WBEM the versions do differ; in my case, even the versions are the same)

could you help ?
(so in brief: how to use swmodify to change an attribute (name, title) of a particular product in a depot ?

thx,

Raf

Re: swmodify question

Dennis Handly — Mon, 04 May 2009 08:39:27 GMT

I would suggest you leave swmodify to the experts.

>Question: how to use swmodify to only change an attribute of 1 target?

You need to specify the software_spec on the end of "WBEMServices".

>we are using software X; However, X has 2 different versions (1 for PA, 1 for IA64) but both look identical in swlist.

Why do you need to change the title? swinstall knows to install the proper version. No need to have humans involved.

You need to tell swlist to list the software_spec, which mentions PA or IPF.
swlist -l fileset -a software_spec -s /tmp/RAF/rafdepot/

Re: swmodify question

Raf_L — Mon, 04 May 2009 10:13:59 GMT

Solved the problem myself

[u51cf28:/root]# swmodify -d -a title="test4" WBEMServices,r=A.02.05.08 @ /tmp/RAF/rafdepot/
[u51cf28:/root]# swlist -l product @ /tmp/RAF/rafdepot/
# Initializing...
# Contacting target "u51cf28"...
#
# Target: u51cf28:/tmp/RAF/rafdepot/
#

BindUpgrade C.9.3.2.3.0 BIND special release upgrade
Lsof A.12.00-4.81.001 new string
PHNE_33766 1.0 Bind 8.1.2 Patch
WBEMServices A.02.07.04 test3
WBEMServices A.02.07.04 test3
WBEMServices A.02.05.08 test4

Re: swmodify question

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 04 May 2009 10:14:59 GMT

Shalom,

This software is designed, one version per system.

Trying to run two versions on the same system will likely leave you with nothing working at all.

SEP

Re: swmodify question

Dennis Handly — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:27:16 GMT

>Solved the problem myself
>swmodify -d -a title="test4" WBEMServices,r=A.02.05.08 @ /tmp/RAF/rafdepot/

Yes, that ",r=" was what I was referring to.