Errot in swlist command.

[Anand HCL]

Hi All,
While giving swlist command I'm getting the following error. Can anyone tell me the root cause of this ?

# swlist
# Initializing...
# Contacting target "dhcp43ta043"...
ERROR: Could not contact host "dhcp43ta043". Make sure the hostname
is correct and an absolute pathname is specified (beginning
with "/").
ERROR: More information may be found in the daemon logfile on this
target (default location is
dhcp43ta043:/var/adm/sw/swagentd.log).
Thnx in advance,
Anand.

[Arunvijai_4]

Check your /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/nsswitch.conf and make sure all entries correct. This error is common when host is not reachable. After making changes, restart swagent by # swagentd -r

-Arun

[RAC_1]

What this host?? Is nslookup fine with this host?? (both ways)

[S.Arunkumar]

Hi,

PLease do restart the swagentd Daemon once and try it again.I have faced this problem earlier and this way I could short it out.

Regards
S.Arunkumar

[BhupeshK]

Hi Anand,

The swagentd daemon is unable to resolv the hostname of your system.

is dhcp43ta043 is the hostname for the system ?

if not then setup your systems hostname and resolv.conf properly.

you may need to modify /etc/resolv.conf.

HTH
-Bhupesh

[Anand HCL]

Hello,
If I'm giving uname -a I'm getting "dhcp43ta" and if I'm giving hostname comamnd I'm getting
"dhcp43ta043". The hostname is 11 characters. Will it create any problem ?

Regards,
Anand

[Mohanasundaram_1]

Hi Anand,

Yes, having a hostname more than 8 characters in length will cause you similar problems.

Correct this and also check /etc/hosts for IP address / hostname changes recently.

perform a
/sbin/init.d/swagentd stop
and
/sbininit.d/swagentd start

after correcting the hostname problem.

With regards,
Mohan.

[Thummalu]

Hi Anand,

before modifying the hostname, follow these

1) check any SG cluster running on the machine. stop the cluster
2) If you are using DNS to resolv, change the files in /var/named with the correct hostname and give the following commands

root% rndc reload
root% kill -HUP `head - /var/run/named.pid`
3) Reconfigure LAN interface(s)
Modify the HOSTNAME and NODENAME to the new hostname in /etc/rc.config.d/netconf.

4) If there are any NFS point mounted, stop nfs server and nfs client

5)Restart Lan interface(s)
Now the changes to the LAN interface are made valid by
root% /sbin/init.d/net stop
root% /sbin/init.d/net start
6)Restart the swagentd
In order swagentd needs to work with the new hostname, restart the daemon
root% /sbin/init.d/swagentd stop
root% /sbin/init.d/swagentd start

7)Set the new hostname
root% /sbin/init.d/hostname start

thats it :)

br
Thummalu