swinstall failing with an error remote procedure.....

[Amruth]

All,

I am configuring HP-UX 11.11 on a new server and the swinstall is failing with the error...

"A remote Procedure Call to a daemon has failed. Could not start a management session for "alpha". Make sure that the host is accessible from the network,and that its deamon, swagentd, is running.

Anybody seen this error before...

Thanks in advance...

AM

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

Hi Amruth,

Can you ping 'alpha'?. Can you access 'alpha' from another system using 'swinstall' GUI?. If not, then you may need to restart swagentd on the alpha server. From 'alpha' try pinging to this system and see if it works.

-Sri

[Amruth]

Hi Sri,

I can ping alpha from beta and beta from alpha by name.

I have rebooted the alpha server, which is the new server i am configuring.

Thanks,
AM

[Sridhar Bhaskarla · Accepted solution]

You are running 'swinstall' on alpha right?. Then make sure the hostname 'alpha' is properly resolved on itself. Try 'nslookup alpha'. If it doesn't return the IP, then make sure you add an entry in /etc/hosts file. This is looking like a mere name resolution problem. After making the entries in /etc/hosts file, make sure 'files' appear first before dns in /etc/nsswitch.conf file. Once it is modified, restart swagentd. "kill -9
-Sri

[Steven E. Protter]

Follow recommendations and restart swagentd daemon on both machines.

/sbin/init.d/swagentd -r

To prepare a depot for network install:

swreg -l depot

Make sure ipfilters or any other firewalls are not blocking ports between the two machines.

Perhaps run a tcpdump or ethereal dump during this operation to collect data.

Make sure networking and port switch settings are consistent with your NIC cards. ie, 100 BaseT and below should be set for manual, full duplex. No autonegotiate unless you have a gigabit NIC.

Make sure both servers are using the same DNS server. Check /etc/resolv.conf

Any of the above issues can cause network annoyance and stop swinstall from working as expected.

SEP

[Amruth]

Thank you very much Sri.

It was the nsswitch.conf giving problems.

i was not having a nsswitch.conf file at all...but i have changed many other parameters.

Thanks again.

AM

[Amruth]

It was the nsswitch.conf giving problem. Sri has shown the way.