Troubleshooting Network Shell issues

The following topics apply to troubleshooting issues with Network Shells:

Network Shell not functioning after uninstalling an agent

If a 32-bit version of Network Shell and 64-bit agent are installed on a 64-bit server, uninstalling the agent causes Network Shell to not function.

Extracted package includes host name in file structure

The tar command removes a leading slash when it creates and extracts tar files. As a result, if you attempt to package files located on a remote host, the file structure includes the host name when the tar file is extracted.

Workaround: Create the tar file with four leading slashes as shown in the following example:

Host1# tar -cvf file.tar ////host2/tmp/hosts

tar command issues message - End of archive volume

Occasionally the tar command produces a tar: End of archive volume 1 reached message at the end of extraction. This message is not an indication of failure and does not affect the extraction in any way.

vi command takes too long to load

The vi command may take 5-10 seconds to load in Windows environments if the TMPDIR environment variable is not set to a local directory. To ensure that vi uses a local temporary directory even when invoked on a remote host, use the following syntax to set your TMPDIR environment variable:
export TMDIR=//@/cygdrive/drive_name/temp_folder_name

Network Shell upgrade encounters problems

Upgrading from previous versions of the Network Shell is not supported using the AIX Package Installer.

Interactive commands blocked by script command

Inclusion of interactive commands in your NSH script can cause issues if you run the NSH script on a remote terminal or shell where the operating system (Linux, AIX, Solaris, or HPUX) uses the script command (a typescript command). The script command blocks or terminates the interactive command and leads to unexpected results.

Workaround:

For the NSH script to successfully execute interactive commands, temporarily comment out the script command in all OS files.

External process does not return the full amount of data

External processes that are included in an NSH script and are planned to return large amounts of data (for example, a nexec command that runs a remote batch file and then uses the echo command to output a message 1000 times) do not return the full amount of output if the NSH process ends to soon after the external process completed. This is due to java limitations.