Search results for query: *

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...

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...

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...

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...

hi, can someone please tell me how i would test if a variable contains a space (this is information put in by users via a menu option). the variable should be v1="a1,a2,a3,a4,a5" but i need to check that it is not v1="a1, a2,a3,a4,a5" for example. Thanks in advance !!

hi, can someone help please - lsuser returns - lsgroup -c -a id ALL #name:id system:0 #name:id staff:1 #name:id bin:2 #name:id sys:3 i want the hostname:field1:field2 without the comments but my awk is not working !! lsgroup -c -a id ALL | awk -F: '$1 !~ /^#/ {print...

hi, can someone help please ! i have a variable in a script that contains - name1,name2,name3,name4 i want to split it into as many variables as there are fields i.e. var1=name1 var2=name2 var3=name3 var4=name4 etc. thanks !!

hi guys, i want to read through a file line by line identifying records that match a pattern. i have found some code that does what i want - grep TEXT /my/file | while IFS= read -r LINE do echo $LINE done can someone just tell me what the 'IFS=' is actually doing ? thanks !!

hi, can someone help please. i have a file in the following format - serverName:username:uid:pgrp e.g. s1:bob:999:staff s2:bob:888:staff s3:bob:999:staff s1:jon:777:staff s2:jon:666:staff s3:jon:666:staff so i would like to read through this file and...

i am doing something wrong somewhere along the line here !! i run mkcd on AIX with the -S to create but not burn my cd images, ftp the images to my windows desktop and then burn the image. the thing is, what ever software i use to burn the cd, i still cannot boot the AIX server. I get...

Hi, When i look at memory usage i get the following - TOPAS - MEMORY Real,MB 1536 % Comp 45.3 % Noncomp 14.5 % Client 14.5 NMON - FileSystemCache (numperm) 14.0% Process 9.1% System 36.1% Free 40.8% NMON appears to break...

hi, i have asked a question by someone at my site - does aix have a command to change the cpu scheduling policy of a process. apparently (??), in other unix's (i have been told) you can make a process "real time" which means it will not be placed back at the end of the queue once it's...

hi i need to housekeep log files over a certain age, the script currently running reads a properties file that has entries such as - /dir1/dir2/dir3/*txt 5 /dir1/dir2/dir3/*.txt 5 currently the script uses find i.e. find /dir1/dir2/dir3/*txt -type f -mtime +5 -exec rm -e {} ; the find is...

Can someone just confirm something for me regarding DLPAR I have just dynamically added a couple of unassigned i/o adapters to an LPAR, i then ran cfgmgr and sure enough i can see the 2 fc adapters. my question is, will the 2 adpaters still be assigned to LPAR after reboot as they do not...

If Remove/Replace device was done on a hot plug scsi disk that was still part of a volume group, would this task fail i.e. will it only work if the hdisk is not in a volume group. thanks in advance !!

hi, i may to change the IP address on 2 of my AIX servers that are in an HACMP cluster (cascading). the change will be a new address range and also changing from a class B to class C network. would anyone know how to update the HACMP config. AIX 5.2 / HACMP 5.1 thanks in advance !

could someone answer a couple of questions on microcode upgrades - 1) is there any way to backup your current system microcode before attempting an upgrade 2) is it OK just to upgrade system microcode even if the server has adapters that do not have their current level of microcode. thanks.