Installing OMNIBACK-II

[Frank Schwerdtfeger_1]

Hi

I have problems to install OMNIBACK-II on my machine

When I start swinstall and try to install the software I got errors in the analyzing step (see attachment)

My server:
uname -a

HP-UX unknown B.11.00 U 9000/800 774018551 unlimited-user license

Thanks for any response
Frank

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Normally this is a very easy, straightforward install. I can only suggest a few things:

1) Are you running as root?
2) Is there sufficient space in /var (or /var/tmp if it is a separate filesystem)?
3) Are you installing the correct software? i.e. the 11.x version rather than 10.20?

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Frank

It looks as if the server has problems identifying its name to start with . Can you do a nslookup , first I would set the local hostname by set_parms hostname . Also try by passsing resolv.conf to get eh correct hostname , and ofcourse you need to restart swagent.


Manoj Srivastava

[A. Clay Stephenson]

I'm an idiot; Manoj has identified your problem; it's hostname resolution.

[Helen French · Accepted solution]

Just another thought:

Check the CD mount options. The '-o cdcase' must NOT be there for HP install CDs. This usually operates well with Oracle CDs

[Angus Crome]

The unknown hostname is indicative of single user mode. Make sure that you are either running in multi-user mode. If you feel a need to install from single user mode, then make sure that you are running all the networking, rpc daemons and swagentd (which you apparently are). You may have to temporarily set the hostname to the name you expect;
hostname

However, it is really much easier to do this from multi-user mode.

[chin hyeon jung]

ONNIBACK resolve the machine by DNS.
So You have node name and test it by nslookup
You must know that aaa.bbb.ccc and aaa is different from omniback

[Donald Kok]

omniback really wants name resolution to be ok. So before installing omniback make this right. Changing hostname after installation of omniback is looking for trouble. This includes switshing from shortname to FQDN.

Say your IP = 1.2.3.4 and hostname = machine1

you do two nslookups:

nslookup 1.2.3.4
which should return machine1

and nslookup machine1
which should return 1.2.3.4

[Glenn L. Stewart]

Is your system a trusted system?
What is the current umask? (# umask)
Expect a typical 022 or 077 if you system is trusted.

Omniback swinstall shouldn't change from root if installed using root. The files that are stated as not existing may not be able to be created otherwise.

I had troubles recently with a trusted system where a directory was created by root with 077, and hence not able to be traverse by users other than root (i.e. root owned, rwx------)

Ensure that you are root when you run swinstall.