topic Re: swreg in Operating System - HP-UX

swreg

himacs — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:16:56 GMT

Hi admins,

I have registerd a depot using below command

swreg -l depot /tmp/PHNE_39872.depot

swlist -l depot
it gives correct output as /tmp/PHNE_39872.depot

But when i tried to install on another server
swinstall -s 10.11.10.34:/tmp/PHNE_39872.depot

in SAM window i cannot get source server name in source hostname field.
and please find the attached error

plz suggest on this
himacs

Re: swreg

Tingli — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:26:59 GMT

In another server, you can use

swlist -l depot @ 10.11.10.34

to see that patch depot is available or not.

Re: swreg

himacs — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:30:07 GMT

Yes Tinqli,

Its available

swlist -l depot @ noortrg
# Initializing...
# Target "noortrg" has the following depot(s):
/tmp/rsp/depot
/var/patch/rsp/depot
/tmp/PHNE_39872.depot

Regards
himacs

Re: swreg

Tingli — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:39:49 GMT

I dunno, it sounds strange. How about using /tmp only as the Source Depot Path?

Re: swreg

Mel Burslan — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:46:40 GMT

This is not authoritative but as far as I can remember, a depot file is actually not a *real* depot but a collection of files, imitating to be on a tape. And since sw commands do not support remote tape drive access, what you are seeing makes perfect sense.

What you need to do is to copy the contents of this depot file into a directory, say /tmp/mypatches, using swcopy command, then register this directory as a depot with

swreg -l depot /tmp/mypatches

then you should be able to access it from remote systems.

HTH

Re: swreg

himacs — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:08:16 GMT

Hi Admins,

Thanx for the replies.

I registered with another path

swreg -l depot /var/patch/PHNE_39872.depot

But the same error persists..

Plz help on this

My server is B.11.23

regards
himacs

Re: swreg

Tingli — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:13:56 GMT

You can try by bouncing swagent.

Re: swreg

himacs — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:16:33 GMT

Hi Tinqli,

Thats already done.Any other possibilities?

regards
himacs

Re: swreg

himacs — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:23:03 GMT

Hi Admin,

I rebounced the swagentd in both the servers.

Again i tried with
swinstall -s noortrg:/var/patch/depot

Only problem is in source hostname source server is not available
If i manually type the server name,ican view the registred depots from source..

Plz find the attachment

regards
himacs

Re: swreg

Tingli — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:56:43 GMT

Does that mean you can install it?

Re: swreg

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:56:49 GMT

Shalom,

So set up the ip address in /etc/hosts to support hostname in the local system.

ip address hostname

You can support any format you want this way.

SEP

Re: swreg

Mel Burslan — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:36:43 GMT

Now I see what you mean...

You are looking for the file:

$HOME/.sw/defaults.hosts

if you edit this file, you will see a asection like this:

swinstall.hosts_with_depots = {
server1
server2
server3
}

along with other sections. In order to browse this server by selecting it in the drop-down items, your server name must be in this swinstall.hosts_with_depots section.

HTH

Re: swreg

Bill Hassell — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:14:47 GMT

> swinstall -s 10.11.10.34:/tmp/PHNE_39872.depot

You are missing a very important part of the swinstall command: the list of products to be installed from the depot. Add an escaped * at the end like this:

swinstall -s 10.11.10.34:/tmp/PHNE_39872.depot \*

Now the interactive window won't pop-up with confusing choices.

Re: swreg

himacs — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:34:45 GMT

Hi Bill,

I have tried with suggested by u.But enede with error which i have attached..

I used below command..
swinstall -p -s 10.11.10.34:/tmp/PHNE_39872.depot\*

Hi Steven,
Hostname is fine,has all the needed entries.

Hi Mel,

I didnot find any file as u mentioned in target server

$HOME/.sw/defaults.hosts

regards
himacs

Re: swreg

Dennis Handly — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:17:57 GMT

>Mel: imitating to be on a tape. And since sw commands do not support remote tape drive access, what you are seeing makes perfect sense.

I recently ran into this and mentioned it. You can swreg your tape depot and swlist it but you can't swinstall.

>then register this directory as a depot

No need since swcopy does that.

Re: swreg

Mel Burslan — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:46:10 GMT

> Hi Mel,

>I didnot find any file as u mentioned in target server

Then you should not see any hosts listed other than the local host name when you highlight the source host and hit enter. If you need another hostname to appear on this list you will need to have this file.

And please pay attention to what I have said before and what Dennis has concurred. .depot files are to be used on the local host, not to be used on a remote host as a remote depot. If you have the depot file, why don't you get the single file copied to this host and do your install ? If this is going to go onto too many hosts, the use swcopy to create a depot on the source server, which you can access from anywhere on your network.

Re: swreg

Sudeesh — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:52:22 GMT

There is no point in doing swreg for a *.depot file. You will be able to use it locally but not from remote systems.

You should swcopy the depot first to a folder and then swreg the folder to do remote installs.

Thanks

Sudeesh

Re: swreg

Dennis Handly — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:47:39 GMT

>Sudeesh: There is no point in doing swreg for a *.depot file.

Right, you can only do swlist, probably not that useful.

Re: swreg

Tingli — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:54:49 GMT

I still think remote installation is possible when the depot can be seen from swlist -l depot. But I don't know why it doesn't work.

How about /tmp? is it a link to somewhere else or just the real directory?

Re: swreg

himacs — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 08:50:04 GMT

Hi admins,

yes i can copy depot to all the nodes and install locally.

But then whats the use of swreg...?

As sudheesh advised let me do a swcopy before swreg..

regards
himacs