Aix Install Error

by Nov 1, 2007

I am stuck on this error in the agent installer, deosn't work on any of my servers

# ./INSTALL.sh

up.time 4.4.2 AIX agent installation



The agent will be installed under /opt/uptime-agent and will run as the uptime user(a non-privileged user for security reasons).
The installation will modify /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf files and attempt to restart inetd process.

To continue please press 'Y', to quit press 'N' [Y(es)/N(o)]: Y Would you like to install using custom agent settings? y / N n

Testing to see if uptime account exists
Up.time user already exists, please make make sure the uptime user is part of the staff group or use custom settings to change the userid

services is clean adding uptmagnt to services file Adding uptmagnt to inetd.conf file inetd is clean adding uptmagnt to /etc/inetd.conf file
— Port and Inetd checking
Restarting the inetd daemon
– inetd found and has been restarted
Port 9998 is open, the agent is responding

— Checking to make sure you have all applications
— awk is required for the agent as well as the checking application
— awkdir is set to /usr/bin/nawk change variable $AWKBIN in script if different
— Checking for the which program
— File Permissions check
Found /usr/bin/which checking for permissions…
…[OK]
Found /usr/bin/sed checking for permissions… …[OK] Found /usr/bin/awk checking for permissions… …[OK] Found /usr/bin/join checking for permissions… …[OK] Found /usr/bin/date checking for permissions… …[OK] Found /usr/sbin/sar checking for permissions… …[OK] Found /usr/bin/pagesize checking for permissions… …[OK] Found /usr/bin/netstat checking for permissions… …[OK] Found /usr/bin/vmstat checking for permissions… …[OK] Found /usr/bin/uname checking for permissions… …[OK] Found /usr/lib/sa/sadc checking for permissions… …[OK] Found /usr/sbin/lsattr checking for permissions… …[OK] Found /usr/sbin/lsdev checking for permissions… …[OK] Found /usr/sbin/lsps checking for permissions… …[OK]

— Checking to see if perfparse returns valid columns
sar: 0551-211 Specify a positive integer for the time change.
/opt/uptime-agent/bin/perfparse.sh[28]: %usr: 0403-057 Syntax error

Sorry invalid parameters in CPU test please contact support
sar: 0551-211 Specify a positive integer for the time change.
sar: 0551-211 Specify a positive integer for the time change.
Agent installation is completed, you can now add this agent system to the up.time monitoring station.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact uptime software support at:
support@uptimesoftware.com
(416)868-0152