Software Distributor Administration Guide (March 2009)

A final WAN-related issue may arise when using the interactive GUI. During the
analysis and execution phases of an interactive session, each target agent is periodically
polled for up-to-date status information. The polling_interval option can be used
to control the number of seconds that elapse between successive status polls of a given
target system. On networks where even this minor data transfer is a problem, you can
increase this polling interval, thus decreasing the frequency of polling, and reducing
an interactive session’s overall demands on the network. See Appendix A (page 299)
for more information on the polling_interval option.
B.2.6 Disk Space Analysis Is Incorrect
Your installation or copy operation runs out of space even though the disk space analysis
succeeded. Upon further checking, you find that the results of the disk space analysis
differ from the actual space available.
Resolution
Possible causes of this problem:
• A control script associated with the installation has consumed disk space by creating
or copying additional files that aren’t accounted for during analysis.
• Your target systems were not idle when the analysis was done and some other
activity (unrelated to SD-UX) was consuming disk space.
• The depot from which the product was installed or copied was created by
swpackage with the package_in_place option set to true, and source files
have been modified since the product was packaged. The swverify command can
be used to diagnose this problem.
B.2.7 Packager Fails
A swpackage operation may fail because of the incorrect use of the end keyword in
the Product Specification File (PSF).
Resolution
The end keyword marks the end of a depot, vendor, product, subproduct or fileset
specification in a PSF. It requires no value and is optional. However, if you use it and
it is incorrectly placed, the specification will fail. Check to make sure, if you use it, there
is an end keyword for every object specification (especially the last one).
B.2.8 Command Logfile Grows Too Large
If you want to reduce the contents of a SD-UX command logfile, follow this procedure:
Resolution
To reduce messages to a minimum, set the verbose command option to 0 in one of
the option files or by using the -x option on the command line. For example, entering
-x spackage.verbose=0 on the command line when you run swpackage would
reduce the number of entries to the swpackage log to a minimum. See Appendix A
(page 299) for details about setting options.
B.2 Common Problems 339