Software Depot (General Info)

[Fateh Malik]

when I run sam I go to Software managment in that I see following icons.
1. Copy Software to Depot, 2. remove Depot software, 3. view Depot software

May I know the concept behind these three, I have read Instaling software but could not get concept for the above mentioned.

[Duncan Edmonstone]

Hi,

Have you read this section of 'Managing Systems & Workgroups'?

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90950/ch07s02.html#bajbeejf

HTH

Duncan

[Fateh Malik]

Hi
Thanks for the said link, sorry to bother u again if I summarize by example, pls correct if I am wrong.

lets say I have to install software of Data Protector not through cd (i.e. present on the network),1. first i will copy the software to /var/adm/sw using ftp, 2. run swinstall command to install the software

Thanks

[Rasheed Tamton]

1. swcopy - Copy software products for subsequent installation or
distribution.

-man swcopy
-man swreg

2. As it says. Remove the software
3. As it says. This will show you the registered software available from the depot

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

You can also install software using swinstall from a NFS share mountpoint.

A depot is registered for remote install as follows:

swreg -l depot

sd/ux is very flexible. There is almost always more than one way to acomplish a given goal.

SEP

[san.sa · Accepted solution]

Hi Malik ,

I always suggest you to create a depot on a system and register the deopt either through swcopy or swreg .
This registered deopt will be available in the network.It can be access on other systems on the network without any nfs mounts / additional configurations.

To install the software from the above depot

use swinstall -s servername:/depotpath

use swlist -l depot @server to list the depots available in the server and
use swlist -d @servername:/depotpath to know the product details user the depot


So no need to copy this files across the system s and all these patches/softwares will be available in a central system (Depot server)

I hope this helps

Regards

Anish

[Tor-Arne Nostdal]

Hi Fateh,
The swcopy is used to copy the distribution software depot into a depot on the installation server.
If you always want to install from media there is no need to copy the software into a server.

It is however common to put software available on an installation server so that you don't need to have it spread around on each server, or retrieve it from tape/cd/dvd each time you need it.

The software does not need to be locally 'installed' on the installation server - just copied into a depot.
If you mix software from different HP-UX versions, you should organise the software in depots with names that show this.

Therafter you can run swinstall and retrieve the software from this server.
swinstall -s {installation server}

read also man pages for swinstall/swcopy:

/Tor-Arne