Download of Solaris Packages From the Internet to Solaris SDS Can Fail (CR 6512582)

Description:

Using the console, the user can mark packages for download and installation from SunFreeware sites as part of a job. However, when attempting to do this, the job fails and the job log reports something like:Download Phase - started. Failed to download blob 40002677 , Aborting task ! Download Phase - Download Failed. Check server logs for more details. Download in progress. Client should ask again for the file download action.

Workaround:

Once the download has failed, re-run the same job and the package should be installed. If the job contains multiple packages to install, the first time the job attempts to download each package, it will fail, but a re-run should succeed.

Another workaround is to use the Solaris baselines and the baseline pre-caching script to pre-download patches for you. You can download an entire Solaris baseline to your SDS and it allows you to monitor the download for any patch download failures. It also greatly enhances the speed with which future jobs are run on those agent.

For information about how to use baselines, see the following articles:

• http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/hub_articles/sc_baselines.jsp

• http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/hub_articles/cgi_baseline.jsp How to Use the Baseline Pre-Caching Script to Patch the Solaris OS

These articles, along with other useful information, are available in http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hubs/connection/ on BigAdmin.