topic Re: Dynamic Root Disk with VxVM in Operating System - HP-UX

Dynamic Root Disk with VxVM

Mugur Stef_1 — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:53:47 GMT

Does anybody have some experience with DRD (Dynamic Root Disk) with VxVM?
I made a clone using DRD on a 11.23 hpux and I tried to install the latest Secure_Shell (05.10.007) on the clone.
It gave me the following error:
"ERROR: Could not apply the software selection "Secure_Shell" because there are no variations that are DRD-safe."
but testing if each fileset implied in this installation is_drd_safe gave me no errors.
Any clues?

Thanks,
Mugur

Re: Dynamic Root Disk with VxVM

Duncan Edmonstone — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:06:15 GMT

Nothing to do with VxVM.

For 11.23 only patches are "DRD safe", so you can't install *any* products on a DRD clone.

For 11.31 products are also "DRD safe".

HTH

Duncan

Re: Dynamic Root Disk with VxVM

Mugur Stef_1 — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:16:16 GMT

splinter:/root# swlist -a is_drd_safe -l fileset -d @ /tmp/ssh_05_10_007
# Initializing...
# Contacting target "splinter"...
#
# Target: splinter:/tmp/ssh_05_10_007
#

# Secure_Shell
Secure_Shell.SECSH-CMN
Secure_Shell.SECURE_SHELL
Secure_Shell.SECURE_SHELL

So I think I should be able to install it.

Re: Dynamic Root Disk with VxVM

Mugur Stef_1 — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:18:25 GMT

Are you saying that for 11.23 only patches are drd_safe and for 11.31 also the products are drd_safe?

Re: Dynamic Root Disk with VxVM

melvyn burnard — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:20:40 GMT

That is a correct interpretation

Re: Dynamic Root Disk with VxVM

Suraj K Sankari — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:22:01 GMT

Hi,

Check with this link also.
http://docs.hp.com/en/5992-4873/index.html

Suraj

Re: Dynamic Root Disk with VxVM

Duncan Edmonstone — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:28:41 GMT

I think your confusion comes from the output of swlist - here's the output from a 11.31 box for Secure Shell:

# swlist -l fileset -a is_drd_safe SecureShell
# Initializing...
# Contacting target "brk11"...
#
# Target: brk11:/
#

# SecureShell
# SecureShell.Secure_Shell
SecureShell.Secure_Shell.SECSH-CMN true
SecureShell.Secure_Shell.SECURE_SHELL true

Note the "true" added to each fileset. If you don't see that its just printing the filesets...

HTH

Duncan

Re: Dynamic Root Disk with VxVM

Mugur Stef_1 — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:29:32 GMT

I thought I could have used DRD for any installation of either patches or products that could have required some tests before beeing used in a production environment but it seems this is the case for 11.31 only and not for 11.23.

Re: Dynamic Root Disk with VxVM

Mugur Stef_1 — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:31:29 GMT

OK.
I see the difference.

Thank you all.

Mugur