There may or may not be another error regarding the agent being already installed.
Undetermined. It may be related to a previous installation in another directory.
We then proceeded with the following steps:
chmod 755 agent-upgrade agent-upgrade myns7servername -reinstall -dir=/opt/altiris/notification/nsagent
chmod 755 rollout*
agent-upgrade -reinstall -dir=/opt/altiris/notification/nsagent
At this point, the previous installation was removed and the new installation proceeded, as expected. However, since an NS server name was not specified, the configuration did not complete and the altiris process was not started. It may be possible to run the agent-upgrade with an NS server name, e.g.:
Applies To
Altiris Agent for Unix, Linux and Mac 7.x.