Solaris BigFix Agent

Usage and Config Platform
1

Hi,

I am trying to install BigFix client on below solaris machine but not able to install, Is there anything which I am missing. It seems arch issue but dont know which will be relevant to this machine.

root@VKSUN:/# uname -a
SunOS VKSUN 5.11 11.4.0.15.0 i86pc i386 i86pc

root@VKSUN:/# isainfo -v
    64-bit amd64 applications
            prfchw rdseed avx2 rdrand avx xsave pclmulqdq aes movbe
            sse4_2 sse4_1 ssse3 amd_lzcnt popcnt tscp ahf cx16 sse3 sse2
            sse fxsr mmx cmov amd_sysc cx8 tsc fpu
    32-bit i386 applications
            prfchw rdseed avx2 rdrand avx xsave pclmulqdq aes movbe
            sse4_2 sse4_1 ssse3 amd_lzcnt popcnt tscp ahf cx16 sse3 sse2
            sse fxsr mmx cmov sep cx8 tsc fpu

I am able to see BESClient installer under BigFix v10.0.1 for solaris 11 & tried both of them & getting below error msg.

root@VKSUN:/# pkgadd -d /export/home/vkkhurava/Desktop/BESAgent-10.0.1.41.x86_sol11.pkg 

The following packages are available:
  1  BESagent     BigFix Agent
                  (i386) 10.0.1.41

Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to process
all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]: all

Processing package instance <BESagent> from </export/home/vkkhurava/Desktop/BESAgent-10.0.1.41.x86_sol11.pkg>

BigFix Agent(i386) 10.0.1.41
cpio: Bad magic number/header.
1 errors
pkgadd: ERROR: attempt to process datastream failed
    - process </usr/bin/cpio -icdumD -C 512> failed, exit code 1
pkgadd: ERROR: unable to unpack datastream

Installation of <BESagent> failed (internal error).
No changes were made to the system.

2nd BigFix Agent installation -

root@VKSUN:/# pkgadd -d /export/home/vkkhurava/Desktop/BESAgent-10.0.1.41.sparc_sol11.pkg 

The following packages are available:
  1  BESagent     BigFix Agent
                  (sparc) 10.0.1.41

Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to process
all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]: 

Processing package instance <BESagent> from </export/home/vkkhurava/Desktop/BESAgent-10.0.1.41.sparc_sol11.pkg>

BigFix Agent(sparc) 10.0.1.41
cpio: Bad magic number/header.
1 errors
pkgadd: ERROR: attempt to process datastream failed
    - process </usr/bin/cpio -icdumD -C 512> failed, exit code 1
pkgadd: ERROR: unable to unpack datastream

Installation of <BESagent> failed (internal error).
No changes were made to the system.
2

you may have to check for the AMD/32bit based besclient for solaris. We do have 100+ solaris sparc hosts. I never have that issue before.

(sparc) 10.0.1.41 – Sparc chip based installer.
(i386) 10.0.1.41 – intel 64 chip based

i think your hw is AMD 32bit based. If hw is 64 bit then it should have shown line “x86_64”.

3

This is what I am getting -

  root@VKSUN:/# isainfo
    amd64 i386

And if the amd is the problem then I guess we dont have any BigFix client to support that, I checked multiple previous BigFix Agent versions & didn’t find AMD anywhere its either say sparc or i386.

4

I think that could be the issue with AMD chipset.

5

Have you tried the Solaris i386 package?

Depending on the zones configuration, you may also need to check the instructions at https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/9.5/platform/Platform/Installation/c_solaris_installation_inst_p5p.html

6

hmm seems or may be coz as of now I am testing it on VM.

7

Yes, Jason ! I am only trying i386 packages only.

As of now its new build so there is no Zones however I tried pkgadd with -G for global zone but no luck.