Problems with swinstall remote

[Haitham Hamad]

I am having trouble installing diagnostics tools on my remote system. After I installed Diag on my local system. I used swinstall to remotely install it on the other systems. I had permissions problems but was able to fix them by modifying the swacl -l host file and restarting the swagentd. Now swinstall thinks that my CDROM mount point (/diagtemp/DIAGNOSTICS/B.11.00) is a tape sourace and installation should be local. Any ideas why this is happening?

TIA,
Haitham

[John Bolene]

Because you made a mount point and shared a network drive.

This is normal.

Otherwise I don't understand the question.

[Carsten Krege · Accepted solution]

Probably (I cannot check) the Diagnostic is saved as a tape depot (i.e a tar archive, the same form that HP uses to distribute patches over the internet) on the CDROM, instead of a "normal" depot (a directory tree). To my knowledge you cannot access these tape depots over the network.

The workaround is to copy the software you want to install on your harddisk and to install from this new depot.

local # swcopy -s /diagtemp/DIAGNOSTICS/B.11.00 @ /var/spool/sw

remote # swinstall -s local:/var/spool/sw

Carsten

[Haitham Hamad]

Thanks Carsten, that makes sense. I went ahead and exported the CDROM on my local server and then mounted it on the remote server. I will use your procedure for the other remote server.