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September 24th, 2008 10:00
Server Update Utility on ESX 3.02
has anyone tried to run the SUU update on ESX?
When I run the ./suu -c check on a PE2950 server it does come back and say that there area number of updates that have 'package can be applied' status.
But when I run the ./suu -u command it seems to bomb out and not do anything.
It says;
system is compliant with prerequisites
nullstem update in progress
exiting SUU application...
A check of the /var/log/dell/suu/support.log.o shows a message 'unable to create temporary files. please ensure that there is enough space in the tmp folder'
It seems that VMware continually purges the /tmp directory.. so is there another location that you can set as a temp location, such as /opt?
Thanks in advance
Bala Chandrasek
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September 24th, 2008 15:00
I have not come across this issue. Are you sure you have enough space in your service console. You can do a "df -lh" and see if you have space.
Bala.
PaulD78
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September 25th, 2008 09:00
I'm afraid it's not a server space issue.. it's a script on ESX that's purging out the /tmp location.
by default it doesn't actually create a /tmp directory, so if you create one, in a matter of minutes ESX will purge that director. (probably a security mechanism of some sort). I've seen this occur on other flavours of unix/solaris after reboot, where /tmp directories will flush out.
bit of a pain in the bum to be honest. I've to sun the 'suu -c' to find the updates then manually run each .BIN file required to update the server. It seems also that the BIOS update doesn't work with VMware.(well when I run it as a manual update job, the job fails on reboot)
Bala Chandrasek
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September 25th, 2008 12:00
This might be a know issue. 'suu -u' uses java which is not available in service console. you may want to try this script.
http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/Script+to+deploy+Dell+Updates+on+ESX+3.x