[pca] PCA / cron

[McGranahan, Jamen]

We have PCA installed on all of our Sun servers (about 10), using the most updated version of PCA. They all run in the crons and all do well. We actually are using the exact same configuration on all of them (makes it easy to update the servers). However, I have one server that for some reason fails in the cron, not updating the patchdiag.xref file. If I run PCA manually, it does fine, so it seems to suggest something is wrong with the cron itself. The only thing I noticed between this one and the others is that for some reason, it is not connecting to https:// like the others and instead is trying to connect to just http://sunsolve.sun.com. Why would this be happening? Can I force PCA to always use https?

Jamen McGranahan

(below is the cron email we receive)
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Subject: PCA from lib480

Downloading xref file to /var/tmp/patchdiag.xref
Trying http://sunsolve.sun.com/patchdiag.xref (1/1)
Failed
Failed (patchdiag.xref not found)
Using /var/tmp/patchdiag.xref from Sep/18/09
Host: lib480 (SunOS 5.9/Generic_122300-43/sparc/sun4u)
List: missing (0/0)