Support Plus install - depots

[Tom Dawson]

Hi,

I'm planning to install HWEnable11i and GOLDQPK11i from the June 2002 Support Plus Cd this weekend. Usually I use sam for something like this. But I want to do it via the command line since I'll be connected remotely via a VPN connection. If I mount the CD at /cdrom, would the following commands be appropriate?

nohup swinstall -x autoreboot=true -x patch_match_target=true -s /cdrom/HWEnable11i > mylog1 2>&1 &

nohup swinstall -x autoreboot=true -x patch_match_target=true -s /cdrom/GOLDQPK11i > mylog2 2>&1 &

Do I need to register the depots first?

TIA,
Tom

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

Tom,

My only concern would be identifying the depots properly. You can do an interactive install with
"swinstall -s /cdrom/HWEnable11i"
(and the other, of course) and cancel after the analysis phase. I don't believe you have to register first.

Good luck,
Pete

[S.K. Chan]

I usually do an interactive install (ie the "-s" option with swinstall) so that I can see what's going on, after all the output will be captured in swinstall.log anyway. You do not need to swreg the depot. You only register a depot if you want that depot to be accessed from a remote machine.

[Hai Nguyen_1]

Tom,

Your commands are correct. You do not have to register the depot provided that the /cdrom is mounted localy to the box you log on remotely. I prefer to change the order of the two commands since HWEnable11i should be the last to apply. To test out your commands now, you can include "-p" without quote which will run the commands in preview mode only.

Hai

[Tom Dawson]

Pete, S.K.,

Thanks. I notice that the common thread in both your answers is that you both usually do an interactive install.

I was wanting to "start it and forget it" only because my VPN has a tendency to time out. Thus killing my telnet session and any processes associated with it.

Would you recommend against the non-interactive install? This is a test/development server.

Tom

[Hai Nguyen_1]

Tom,

If you want to use nohup in this case, you may not want to start the commands in the root dir. Since the file nohup.out will be created in a directory where nohup is run. Just to avoid this file from getting so big that it may fill up the root filesystem.

Hai

[Martin Johnson]

I usually do my major installs from the console - interactively. Less potential problems and you're with the machine if problems occur. (Murphy is always looking over my shoulder.)

I have had several upgrades that resulted in an unbootable system. Hard to deal with that remotely.

HTH
Marty

[S.K. Chan]

I tend to agree with Martin. If it's a one or two individual patches install, non-interactive method is probably ok. Though I do not see any problem with your syntax, it's a matter of preference. Nothing against non-interactive method. I guess it's up to you then which way you want to go.

[Tom Dawson]

All,

Thanks! Since it wasn't a production machine, I decided to live dangerously. But the GOLDQPK11i install didn't like me being remote. It generated the following error:

ERROR: This Agent session lost the RPC connection to the Controller
or Target Agent that initiated the session. Agent detected
lost connection. The session is being shut down. (pid=4128)

However, the HWEnable11i install seemed to go okay being remote. But our hardware is so old ( D330's ) that we may not have actually done any updates.

Thanks to all!
Tom

[Bryan Payne]

I usually just put them in a depot on a server, and then make a script like this:
swinstall -x patch_match_target=true -x enforce_dependencies=true -x mount_all_filesystems=false -x reinstall=false -x autoreboot=true -s :/depot/S700_S800/11i/patches/HWEnable11i \*

Or you can schedule from the gui to install later. To enable remote support touch /var/adm/sw/.sdkey before going into swinstall