AIX

I am trying to run niminv on my nim master to collect info from my nim clients.

: / -> niminv -o invcon -a targets=<nimclient> -a location=/tmp/inventory
rshd: 0826-813 Permission is denied.
geninv: 0645-007 ATTENTION: gi_nim_standalone() returned an unexpected result.
Return Status: FAILURE

WARNING: Could not gather inventory for ******. Skipping.
There are no valid targets to run the operation.
niminv 0645-007 ATTENTION: i_invget() returned an unexpected result.
niminv 0645-007 ATTENTION: i_invcon() returned an unexpected result.
niminv 0645-007 ATTENTION: i_driver() returned an unexpected result.

Return Status: FAILURE

I dont want to use rshd as the communication. I have set the master and clients to use nimsh. Why am I getting rshd error? Does niminv only use rshd?

Thanks.

Run lsnim against the nim client in question. What does the connect value equal?

Code:

lsnim -l nimclient

Is the nimsh daemon running on the nim client?

lsnim -l shows "connect = nimsh" and nimsh daemon is running on the client

Can you run

Code:

nimquery -a host=hostname -p

This should tell you if the nimsh communication is working.

I can duplicate your error if I have the connect set to shell and remove the nim master host info from the

Code:

/.rhosts

file on the client side. You might try entering the host info in the

Code:

/.rhosts

file to see if it works. Then if it does you'll know for some reason the nim master is not trying trying to use nimsh for communication.

I get completely different errors using nimsh on both sides so not sure what is up there. I know I am not helping much but just trying to throw some thoughts out there.

thanks juredd1, any help much appreciated.