Setting Up the Depot Server on a Remote Host

To set up the Depot server on a remote host, complete the following steps:

To set up the Depot server on a remote host

Run the STB installer script for OpenSolaris on any host where you have sufficient privileges to install, remove applications and administer services (SMF).

The following information is displayed:
bash-3.2# pfexec ./install_stb_opensol.sh Services Tools Bundle(STB) v5.2 Installer Checksumming...
The list of available components for installation in this bundle of STB is displayed. (Currently, only Explorer is part of STB for OpenSolaris. You are prompted for the choice for installing the components.)
List of Components and Corresponding Selection 1. Install Explorer v6.3 ? (y/n) y

When you are prompted for the choice for installing the components, choose y to continue with the installation.

STB provides you the option of proceeding with the installation or exiting.

The following information is displayed:
Would you like to (I)nstall component selections, or (E)xit ? I(default)

To continue with the installation, type: I

The following information is displayed:

STB is installing all selected modules and their dependencies.
Details of this will be in /var/log/install_stb-v5.2.log
Please wait.....
Installing Sun(TM) Explorer Data Collector .....

Preferred authority is detected from the pkg publisher list. This is taken as the default publisher for publishing Explorer packages.

Note –

Before proceeding further, you must ensure that you have ssh login access to this publisher with sufficient privileges to configure and start pkg service on this host

The following information is displayed:

Your preferred depot server is http://pkg.opensolaris.org:80/.
You need to have sufficient privilege to install explorer on this server.
Use it for explorer Installation? (Y/N)(default:y)? [y,n,?] n

To choose your own authority, type: N

Do not accept the default host. By typing N, you can set your remote host as your authority for publishing Explorer package. Before proceeding further, you must ensure that you have sufficient privilege to configure and start pkg service on the remote host.

Note –
To know more about authority, refer to the pkg man page or refer the documentation as mentioned above.

The authority setup requires a few user configurable parameters like directory path and Port number.

The following information is displayed:
Please enter server url to publish packages (Example http://myhostname.domain default: http://localhost):

Type the URL of your remote OpenSolaris host.

The following information is displayed:

Please enter the Port number to connect to server (default:10000):
12000
Refreshing the package catalogs..

Enter the Port number of your remote OpenSolaris host.

If the corresponding http service is disabled on the remote host, STB will attempt to start it.

The following information is displayed:

Pkg service seems to be disabled in 
http://opensolaris1.mydomain:12000/. Trying to 
restart the service..
Please enter the directory to push packages in server 
( default /var/pkg/repo): /usr/pkgs

Before starting the service on the remote host, SSH login to remote host will be prompted.

Enter the login credentials for making a ssh connection to the remote host.

The following information is displayed:

Please enter username for opensolaris1.mydomain (default : root): jack
Please enter password for jack upon prompt
The authenticity of host ' opensolaris1.mydomain (101.152.38.123)' 
can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 9a:cb:92:79:25:fd:d0:70:a2:fa:aa:02:92:34:1e:5e.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes
Password:

To continue to connect to the remote server and install the Explorer packages, type: yes

STB does a disk space check before proceeding with the installation:

If the minimum disk space is not available, STB will fail to install and will display the appropriate error log as in the following message:

bash-3.2# ./install_stb_opensol.sh

Services Tools Bundle(STB) v5.2 Installer

Current available disk space on /tmp : 43412KB may not be enough for STB.
Please make sure that you have a minimum space of 54272KB
bash-3.2#
bash-3.2# df -k /tmp
Filesystem    kbytes   used     avail   capacity  Mounted on
swap          2171720  2127564  44156   98%        /tmp

If there is sufficient space, the installation continues and the following information is displayed:

Pushing SUNWexplo to http://localhost
PUBLISHED
pkg:/SUNWexplo@6.3,5.11:20090109T174025Z
Ready to install SUNWexplo
Refreshing the package catalogs..
pkg: 1/2 catalogs successfully updated:
pkg.opensolaris.org: node name or service name not known
DOWNLOAD PKGS FILES XFER (MB)
Completed 1/1 164/164 24.97/24.97

PHASE ACTIONS
Install Phase 189/189
Refreshing the package catalogs..
Pushing SUNWexplu to http://localhost
PUBLISHED
pkg:/SUNWexplu@6.3,5.11:20090109T174139Z
Ready to install SUNWexplu
Refreshing the package catalogs..
pkg: 1/2 catalogs successfully updated:
pkg.opensolaris.org: node name or service name not known
DOWNLOAD PKGS FILES XFER (MB)
Completed 1/1 20/20 0.01/0.01

PHASE ACTIONS
Install Phase 29/29
Installation of Sun(TM) Explorer Data Collector <6.2> was successful

STB v5.2 installation is complete...

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