smpatch in remote mode RMIERROR
Any thoughts on what am I missing here? I've tried this multiple ways. smpatch analyze runs fine in local mode on all machines I'm testing. I have not seen remote mode work once.
(i) First scenario, I enabled wbem to accept remote connections. Then, I tried to analyze another host with smpatch:
otherhost{/}# svccfg -s wbem setprop options/tcp_listen =true
otherhost{/}# svcadm restart wbem
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somehost{/}# smpatch analyze -H otherhost:898 -n otherhost
Authenticating as user: root
Type /?for help, pressing <enter> accepts thedefault denoted by [ ]
Please enter a string valuefor: password ::
Loading Tool: com.sun.admin.patchmgr.cli.PatchMgrCli from otherhost:898
Login to otherhost as user root was successful.
Download of com.sun.admin.patchmgr.cli.PatchMgrCli from otherhost:898 was successful.
Assessing patchesfor machine otherhost. Please wait...
RMIERROR
(II) Second scenario, I disabled remote access to wbem (i.e. it's only listening on localhost) and ran the following, same error:
somehost{/}# smpatch analyze -H localhost:898
Authenticating as user: root
Type /?for help, pressing <enter> accepts thedefault denoted by [ ]
Please enter a string valuefor: password ::
Loading Tool: com.sun.admin.patchmgr.cli.PatchMgrCli from localhost:898
Login to localhost as user root was successful.
Download of com.sun.admin.patchmgr.cli.PatchMgrCli from localhost:898 was successful.
Assessing patchesfor machine localhost. Please wait...
RMIERROR
Both somehost and otherhost are base 11/06 release Solaris 10 x86 with updated SUC patches. Again, no problems in local mode, but I was hoping to test the remote mode with patch lists. For example, in the man page of smpatch:
Example 4: Applying Updates by Using an Update List File
# smpatch add -x idlist=/tmp/update/update_file \
-d /net/fileserver/export/updatespool/Solaris10 -n lab1 -n lab2
Appliestheupdatesspecifiedinthefile
/tmp/update/update_file to the systems lab1 and lab2. The
updates are located in the NFS-mounted directory named
/net/fileserver/export/updatespool/Solaris10.
Is there perhaps a consolidated list of requirements for services and/or ports that need to be available for smpatch to function as documented in remote mode?
Many thanks for any feedback...
