SWA feedback

[Steven Haywood (SA)]

Hi
First I just want to say that SwA is FANTASTIC. It just made my entire HP-based Sarbanes Oxley compliance requirement a whole lot easier. Thanks for this!!!

Next, a suggestion for those of us stuck in the 3rd world with bad internet connections ..
Is there any way to make swa get resume downloading of aborted patches/packs? Internet connection dying 400mb into a 500mb download makes poor sysadmins cry ;)
-rwx------ 1 root sys 28531544 Feb 5 17:35 PHSS_35534.40189.tmp
-rwx------ 1 root sys 40687072 Feb 5 17:22 PHSS_35534.43597.tmp
-rwx------ 1 root sys 276213864 Feb 6 08:29 PHSS_35534.56092.tmp

Thanks again
S

[Bob E Campbell · Accepted solution]

I will add that to the list of enhancements. There are a few options that might help you now.

The first suggestion is to use the "-x download_cmd" option to specify an alternate method to download. I believe that curl allows for larger timeouts for example.

The next option is to download the patch archives outside of the tool. You can then move them manually into the software cache and SWA will not attempt to download them again.

The last option is to grab them of off media. While these cannot be put into the software cache (unless in the shar(1) format), you can precopy them into the target depot and use the "-x allow_existing_depot" option to have SWA accept it.

Bob

[Steven Haywood (SA)]

Thanks! :)
I did the independant download thing... I guess I should look into using wget or something similar...