HPUX 11i v1 & NetApp & NFS

[nchat504]

The terminology may be a little off, but I think the point can still be understood..

Basically, I have a HP Application DVD mounted on the NetApp file share. I am able to NFS mount to this file share using NFS on my HPUX system. and I can browse all directories on the NFS mount point, however i am not able to get this mount to be viewed as valid for my swinstall command.

remember that the netapp_server_share currently has my HP DVD's mounted on it. I am using NFS on my HPUX server to actually access the contents of the DVD.

bdf shows:

netapp_server_share:/their_mountpoint /my_mountpoint

swinstall -s remote_server:/my_mountpoint

this is the error I receive: There is currently no depot software on host myhost at location /my_mountpoint Make sure an absolute pathname is specified for location (beginning with /")

so i try the swinstall again with /my_mountpoint/ and i still get the same message.


It does not recognize the software on the DVD? or is it the way I NFS mounted it
??

Any thoughts?

[SKR_1]

Make the entry in /etc/exports on NFS server and run

exportfs -a

And after this try to NFS mount on target system

Thanks

SKR

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

swreg -l depot

SEP

[nchat504]

Still the same error..

This is the error I receive when i try to swreg -l depot /my_mountpoint

ERROR: Failed to register soc on "/my_mountpoint" for
system_name. "/my_mountpoint" is not a valid
depot. 08/26/08 12:39:20 EDT

I got some more info, it turns out that what i am NFS mounting to, is just a copy of the DVD that was placed on the SAN(Virtual NetAPP)

So they mounted the DVD and then did a copy to the SAN. What I am seeing is a "copy" of everything that was on the DVD..

[OldSchool]

do an "ls -l" on /my_mountpoint and post it please.

you may find you aren't "deep enough" in the directory structure, ie. the depots are down one or two levels from /my_mountpoint

[Tim Nelson]

Other possibilities:

How did "they" copy the DVD ? Was it mounted with the correct options so it looked like a UNIX DVD or something else.
( are we assuming "they" are unix folks and know what they are doing ? )

As old_school mentioned, post the output of ls -l.

[nchat504]

ls -la /my_mountpoint

sapux074 /my_mountpoint ll | more
total 3192
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 3 12:44 100BT-EISA-FMT
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 3 12:44 100BT-EISA-KRN
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 3 12:44 100BT-EISA-RUN
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 3 12:44 100BaseT-00
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 3 12:44 100BaseT-01
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 3 12:44 10GigEthr-00
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 3 12:44 32070B
dr-xr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Mar 3 12:44 3270-Common
dr-xr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Mar 3 12:44 3270-Common-R7
dr-xr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Mar 3 12:44 AAAServer
dr-xr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Mar 3 12:44 ACC
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 3 12:44 ACC-DEV
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 3 12:44 ACC-HDLC
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 3 12:44 ACC-HDLCNRM
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 3 12:44 ACC-LAPD
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 3 12:44 ACC-LINK
dr-xr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Mar 3 12:44 ACC-SX25
dr-xr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Mar 3 12:44 ACC-X25
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 3 12:44 ACC-X25-DEV
dr-xr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Mar 3 12:45 ACXX
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 3 12:45 ASU
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 3 12:45 ASU-DOC
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 3 12:45 ASU-HA
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 3 12:44 ATM-00
....

[Tim Nelson]

Try this.

swlist -s /my_mountpoint/100BT-EISA-FMT

[Tim Nelson]

correction.

drop the -s ( not a valid option with swlist )

[nchat504]

<
# Initializing...
# Contacting target "my system"...
ERROR: The expected depot or root does not exist at
"/my_mountpoint/".
ERROR: There is currently no depot software on host "my system" at
location "/my_mountpoint/". Make sure that an
absolute pathname is specified for location (beginning with
"/").
...
i then tried to run it again, with "/my_mountpoint" same thing as before..