swa report error ????

[MikeL_4]

After patching some servers, I ran an new swa report and the patches I've just applied on the server are still showing in the report as being needed for installation...

I verified that patches were installed via swlist and they are applied...

Any ideas ??

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Mike:

I have never seen this problem. What is your setting for 'inventory_max_age'? I use a value of zero (0) to insure that a new inventory is always performed when generating a report.

Regards!

...JRF...

[MikeL_4]

couple of servers it works just fine, and all the servers have the same software and patches installed, which is what is really confusing me on this one...

/opt/swa/bin/swa report -x catalog=/root/.swa/cache/swa_catalog.xml -x catalog_max_age=0

[MikeL_4]

I just removed two files:

/root/.swa/cache]:
-rw------- 1 root sys 71856 Sep 15 10:23 swa_analysis.xml
-rw------- 1 root sys 702921 Sep 13 21:02 swa_inventory_2875771339.xml

Then ran the report again and it worked just fine this time.....

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again) Mike:

I believe that the 'inventory_max_age' defaults to 24-hours. I use '-x inventory_max_age=0' (although actually I specify that in my '.swa.conf').

Regards!

...JRF...

[John Payne_2]

Mike,

See the "swa clean" option, which clears out those files.

John

[MikeL_4]

I did not have any parameters coded in the swa.conf file...

I did add inventory_max_age=0 to the file and problem resolved...

Thanks