Glossary

A comparison of the inventory and the catalog to determine the recommended actions and applicable patches for installation.

An option of the swa report and swa step analyze commands used to specify the type of analyses to run. Available analyzers are: CRIT, PCW, PW, QPK, SEC, CHAIN, and PATCH. If no analyzers are specified, the QPK, SEC, and PCS analyses are performed.

See security bulletin.

The state of a system where all patches in a bundle that are capable of being installed are present or superseded by newer components.

Inventory, catalog, analysis, and downloaded software stored by SWA on the target system.

A list of known problems with HP-UX software and their fixes, located at the HP IT Resource Center (ITRC).

Text formatted commands and options entered at an HP-UX command line prompt or executed by a script.

Customizations for a major mode. They can be specified on the command line, in an option file, or in a configuration file.

A list of all the software installed on a system.

A URL location, http://itrc.hp.com, with access to comprehensive HP software, hardware, and network support information and tools.

A style of CLI of the format command <major mode>. SWA has the following major modes: report, get, clean, and step.

Message Digest-5. Authentication algorithm developed by RSA. MD5 generates a 128-bit message digest using a 128-bit key. IPSec truncates the message digest to 96 bits.

Software designed to update specific bundles, products, subproducts, filesets, or files on a system.

Guided patch analysis and selection software available on the IT Resource Center (ITRC) website that ensures your systems meet the HP recommended patch configuration. HP-UX Software Assistant has all the capabilities of the ITRC Patch Assessment Tool and more.

See supersession chain.

A bundle of HP-UX defect-fix patches for proactive patching. QPK bundles are targeted for a particular version of HP-UX. The patches are tested as thoroughly as an operating system release.

A summary of actions to take based on the analysis.

The mechanism used by Hewlett-Packard to announce the presence of potential security issues and lists actions recommended to resolve the issue.

An HP-UX command that analyzes the security bulletin compliance of a system. Most of the functionality of SPC is superseded by HP-UX Software Assistant. Full support of SPC will end on 11/01/08.

A command line interface tool that consolidates and simplifies patch management and security bulletin management on HP-UX systems. The SWA tool is new for HP-UX releases as of January 2007, supersedes Security Patch Check (SPC), and is the HP-recommended utility to use to maintain currency with HP-published security bulletins for HP-UX software.

One discrete action of the swa report or swa get command. SWA steps are initiated with the swa step command. Valid steps are: inventory, catalog, analyze, report, download, and depot.

A series of patches for a software product, beginning with the nonpatched software product and progressing from the oldest patch to the newest patch. Newer patches completely replace the older ones. In general, patch numbers increase along a patch supersession chain.

Files containing the software downloaded from the HP ITRC during the swa get or the swa step download command. These files are stored in the swcache directory.

Files created by swa report, such as the inventories of the systems or depots, the catalog, and the analysis file. These files are stored in the cache subdirectory.