3rd Party Software - swlist ?

[MikeL_4]

We like many have 3rd party software installed on our servers that does not use the HP swinstall process and thus when we run a swlist these products are not listed.
Is there a way to put some sort of Product comment into this so that we can have one place to see what software is installed ?

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Mike:

If the non-HPUX software uses the standard Software Distributer (SD) then and only then will 'swlist' show the installed software. That's because the Installed Product Database (IPD) is structured in '/var/adm/sw'.

If SD tools aren't used, then you are left relying on good documentation; and/or the third party's software writing an installation log or IPD of its own.

By standards, optional softare packages should be installed in directories beneath '/opt'. The 'usr/contrib' directory is also a repository for "contributed" software.

It is often possible to create symbolic links from the third-party's choice of directories to directories of *_your*_ choice and thereby isolate non-standard software in filesystems of your choice.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Dennis Handly]

Did you just want to use swlist and not use any other SD tools?

swmodify can do a lot but I don't know if it can create entries out of thin air.

[Reshma Malusare]

Hi Mikel,
As mentioned above swlist will display display information about software products installed at or available from the specified target_selections SD.

Here to see all applications you can have a look in /opt.

Thanks & Regards
Reshma

[Dennis Handly]

>swmodify can do a lot but I don't know if it can create entries out of thin air.

Actually it can, I just tried it. You must create a PSF file and then you can do:
# swmodify -s psf DUMMY_ACXX

How much detail you want is limited to how ambitious you are. You can even use it to remove your software.

[MikeL_4]

Thanks