CLI Client Installation Might Fail on Solaris 10 Server With Local Zone (6209280) (N1 Grid Service Provisioning System 5.0 Release Notes)

N1 Grid Service Provisioning System 5.0 Release Notes

CLI Client Installation Might Fail on Solaris 10 Server With Local Zone (6209280)

If you attempt to install the CLI Client on a Solaris 10 server with a Solaris 10 local zone, the installation might fail. The following error message displays:

pkginstall: ERROR: unable to create package object 
  </N1SPS5.0-home/cli>.
    pathname does not exist
    group name <group> not found in group table(s) 
    owner name <user> not found in passwd table(s)

Installation of <SUNWspscl> on zone <xxxx> partially failed.
Error!  Failed to install SUNWspscl. Exit value was 2
Exiting..

The installation fails because the provisioning system installation program creates the N1SPS5.0-home/cli directory in the global zone, but not in the local zone. Also, the installation fails if the user and group you created to own the provisioning system are not served by the name service.

Workaround: To prevent the CLI Client installation failure, before you begin the installation, complete the following steps:

Create the N1SPS5.0-home/cli directory in the local zone. N1SPS5.0-home is the home directory in which you plan to install the N1 Grid Service Provisioning System.
If the name service does not serve the user and group, create the user and the group that will own the N1 Grid Service Provisioning System in the global zone and in all local zones.