swlist and swinstall are sluggush

[pedliz12]

do a swilist and it takes about 10minutes to come up witha list. do a swisnatll and it does not want to install a XXX.depot file.. What do I do. The hostname was incorrect and changed to the correct hostname.

[rleon · Accepted solution]

If I recall swinstall is some what hostname sensitive.

try

nslookup hostname

make sure it resolvs correctly. If you changed the hostname make sure you changed it in /etc/hosts.

You may also want to restart the swagent ..
run
swagentd -r

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

The SD (Software Distributer) tools rely heavily on DNS and hostname resolution.

Begin by restating the 'swagentd' daemon:

# swagentd -r

Make sure that your '/etc/hosts' contains your correct hostname.

If you did'nt use '/sbin/set_parms' to change your hostname (which causes a reboot), do that too.

Verify that your DNS servers are resolving names:

# nslookup some_host_name

Regards!

...JRF...

[John Guster]

check files under /var/adm/sw/security, make sure the hostname is correct. Any update to these files, you need bounce the swagentd.