swremove looks for target selection not for software selection

[Ravi_8]

Hi Guys

I have a strange problem. in one of my 11i machine when i start installing or removeing software. it looks for target selection and displays hostname under "Hostname" and root under "Type" column of the window.
why is this?

where as other machines looks for software selection.
hostname,nslookup. everything is fine.

any ideas?

[Jakes Louw]

I've seen this before on earlier versions of the OS.
Kill the swagent daemon (swagentd) using "swagentd -k" and then restart by just calling "swagentd".
Then re-test your swremove/swinstall.

[Bernhard Mueller]

Ravi,

check your name resolution
/etc/resolv.conf
/etc/nsswitch.conf
/etc/hosts

nslookup hostname
nslookup ip-addr

if all matches restart:
swagentd -r

Regards,
Bernhard

[Hoefnix]

Did you install the HP softwaredistribution software on this server.

We have this on a server that we use to push software to other servers.
When just running swinstall, the first question I get is "Target Selection"

Regards,

Peter Geluk

[T G Manikandan · Accepted solution]

Try doing a

#mv /var/adm/sw/.sdkey /var/adm/sw/.sdkey.bk
or
#rm /var/adm/sw/.sdkey

and checking working with swremove.

Remote operations are allowed with 11i using .sdkey file

[Jakes Louw]

Check /var/adm/sw/target_hosts to see if your host is recorded.

[Ravi_8]

Thanx TG

what is the significance of that file?