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Hi, I need to upgrade SDDPCM from devices.sddpcm.53.rte.2.2.0.4 to devices.sddpcm.53.rte.2.6.0.3 (this will also include an upgrade to devices.fcp.disk.ibm.mpio.rte). Is it as simple as a smitty update_all and then a reboot as I am staying at devices.sddpcm.53.rte ? Aswell as on AIX lpar, I...

Can i create an additional filesystem on a VIOS ? I want to run nmon and want a location to store the output files ? Would it be better practice to just create an nmon directory under /home/padmin ? Can anyone tell me what the IBM directive or recommendation on this is. Thanks.

Could someone please explain something too me. I am trying to work out what processes are using paging space and how much. myserver# lsps -a Page Space Physical Volume Volume Group Size %Used Active Auto Type hd6 hdisk0 rootvg 4096MB 4 yes yes...

I have just taken over 2 VIOS installations on different servers - 1 ioslevel is 1.5.2.1-FP-11.1 2 ioslevel is 1.5.2.5-FP-11.1 SP-01 My understanding is that these are both at version 1.5 and FP 11.1 and one has SP01 - what does the 2.1 and the 2.5 represent in the ioslevel command output...

i would say fred had never logged on when you ran lsuser with ALL and then logged on before you ran lsuser with just fred. what happens if you run - lsuser -a id gecos account_locked time_last_login fred then lsuser -a id gecos account_locked time_last_login ALL | grep fred

I have re-read the manual and - secondly, we are using ipat via ip alias and also hb over ip aliasing. the boot and service address are on the same network but the ip address offset is on a different subnet. i thought boot and service had to be on different subnets ? is this the case even...

Hi, I have 2 questions. I have taken over a cluster that is soon to go into production and i have started some testing. i have 1 IP and 1 non-IP network. The IP network is an etherchannel, i ifconfig enX down and the cluster detects the network down, but without any manual intervention after...

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i think i have done something like this before. i think you can edit /image.data on your source system, there are various COPIES=2 that need changing to COPIES=1 under the lvdata stanza. Create another mksysb on your source system but don't create a new image.data (don't include the -i...

can someone please confirm or comment on my understanding of cpu/core/vcpu/lcpu is correct - profile - uncapped partiton proc unit 0.1/0.4/8 vcpu 1/4/8 so each vcpu will have a guaranteed 10% of a processing unit (a core ? - 16 cores on an 8 cpu dual core server ?) as the partition is...

have a look at - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-aixpartition/ http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/WikiPtype/Home (good portal) hope this helps !

Have a look in the HACMP Installation Guide - http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/c2352091.pdf I am sure it documents how to test this.

I think the 'IBM recommended' way would be to change the rss attribute with chuser - xxxx1234(root)# lsuser -a rss user1 user1 rss=65536 xxxx1234(root)# su - user1 xxxx1234(user1)# ulimit -m 32768 xxxx1234(root)# chuser rss=131072 user1 xxxx1234(root)# su - user1 xxxx1234(user1)# ulimit -m...

hi, i am looking at authenticating linux/unix users against active directory but i want to restrict access to certain hosts for certain users. there is a config change on the ldap client for pam to check the host value but i cannot see where or how add associate/add a list of hosts to a user...