HP manual Installing to all sv6 systems using HP Software Distributor

installation and user information

updating software

2	Install another	Re-install sv6_enhancements on all systems . . .or for stand-alone
	version of	sv6 systems, download and install the latest X server and OpenGL
	graphics	patches from http://itrc.hp.com.
	software

WARNING

installing to all sv6 systems using HP Software Distributor

There are many ways to utilize HP’s Software Distributor (SD) tools to install software. The previous section uses scripts with command line SD calls to make it easy to update the sv6_enhancements package.

This section describes one way to use the SD GUI tools to install depots or patches onto all systems in your sv6 configuration at the same time. See the man page for ‘swinstall’ or http://managementsoftware.hp.com/products/swdist/ for details on HP Software Distributor usage.

When installing patches that require a reboot, switch to a stand-alone workstation X server instantiation. If you wish to use the SD GUI tools instead of the command line or terminal versions, either login remotely to perform the install, or configure the X server to run as it would on a stand-alone workstation. (Example: Temporarily move the /etc/X11/X0screens file to X0screens.save then restart the X server.) Failure to do this could result in an incomplete installation. On sv6, when the first slave node reboots, it kills the X server on the master node, which kills the remaining swinstall GUI windows.

NOTE

The examples below assume a single-channel system with a master gigabit hostname of svm and an example patch number of PHSS_25612, which is in tape depot format. Make appropriate substitutions as needed.

Here is a summary of the following installation steps:

•Download and unpack software.

•If the software requires a reboot, change to a stand-alone workstation X server.

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