Incorrect depot listing on remote host

[Geoff Wild]

This one is strange - anyone know how to fix?

On host A:

# swlist -l depot @DEPOTSERVER
# Initializing...
# Target "DEPOTSERVER" has the following depot(s):
/SD_CDROM
/data/work/patches/depot
/data/work/patches/tmp2/depot
/data/work/patches/tmp5/depot
/data/work/patches/tmp6/depot
/data/work/patches/agent/depot
/var/opt/ignite/depots/recovery_cmds

Interesting - that is same as localhost!

# swlist -l depot
# Initializing...
# Target "HOSTA" has the following depot(s):
/SD_CDROM
/data/work/patches/depot
/data/work/patches/tmp2/depot
/data/work/patches/tmp5/depot
/data/work/patches/tmp6/depot
/data/work/patches/agent/depot
/var/opt/ignite/depots/recovery_cmds

When I run that on another host:

# swlist -l depot @DEPOTSERVER
# Initializing...
# Target "DEPOTSERVER" has the following depot(s):
/var/software/tools
/var/software/misc
/cdrom
/cdrom/DIAGNOSTICS/B.11.00
/var/software/patch/tools2002
/SD_CDROM
/var/software/Programming
/var/software/misc/mwa
/var/software/tools/OnlineDiag
/var/software/patch/Diag_11.11
/var/software/patch/ECCMAGT
/var/software/patch/11i.jan2004
/var/software/patch/Mobila.11.0.jan2004
/var/software/misc/CCTool
/var/software/patch/supp-tools
/var/software/patch/supp-patch-dec03/depot
/var/software/patch/isee
/var/software/patch/On-diag.1100
/var/software/SYSINFO
/var/software/UNZIP/
/var/software/CFG2HTML-HP
/var/software/SENDMAIL/
/var/software/patch/mwa
/var/software/patch/stm-11.0
/var/software/patch/isee-11.0

What is wrong with HOST A? Why doesn't it see the correct depots?

Thanks...Geoff

[RAC_1]

What does following return??

swlist -l depot @ ip_address_of_DEPOTSERVER
nslookup DEPOTSERVER
nsquery hosts DEPOTSERVER

Anil

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

check and see if the hostname "depotserver" on hosta is resolved correctly.

swlist -l depot @depot_server

works fine for us.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Geoff Wild]

RAC and Sanjay - returns the same as the HOSTB - name resolution is fine...

HOSTA is our OVO server - it Uses "dns [NOTFOUND=CONTINUE] files" for the hosts policy...

Searching dns for depotserver
Hostname: depotserver.mysdomain.com
Aliases:
Address: 192.168.2.125
Switch configuration: Terminates Search
root@hosta:/root # grep depotserver /etc/hosts
192.168.2.125 depotserver

That is the correct ip address.....

yet...

# swlist -l depot @192.168.2.125
# Initializing...
# Target "192.168.2.125" has the following depot(s):
/SD_CDROM
/data/work/patches/depot
/data/work/patches/tmp2/depot
/data/work/patches/tmp5/depot
/data/work/patches/tmp6/depot
/data/work/patches/agent/depot
/var/opt/ignite/depots/recovery_cmds


Rgds...Geoff

[Todd Stewart_1]

Geoff,

Have you tried running the 'swlist -l depot @ depotserver' command from one of the other HP-UX servers (i.e. the NETBACKUP server)to see if the result is the same as HostA?

Todd :)

[Sanjay_6 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Check and see if the file /var/adm/sw/standalone exist on hosta. If it does rename it / remove it and try swlist again.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Geoff Wild]

Sanjay got it - it was /var/adm/sw/standalone!

Todd - in my original post "When I run that on another host:" it shows up correctly. :)

Rgds...Geoff

[RAC_1]

Just egar to know what purpose this file serves and what are it's contenets??

Anil

[Geoff Wild]

From the name of it, I would surmise it means the server only looks at depots locally - IE standalone. The file was 0 bytes. Not too sure how it got there...

Rgds...Geoff

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Geoff and RAC,

/var/adm/sw/standalone is needed when yo do not have network available ( bad lan card etc) if then you need to update software via swinstall you will have a problem :-)

regards,
Robert-Jan