I have a ancient rs6000 (43P Model 170) and a not quite as ancient box
(44P Model 170), We'd like to clone the 43P onto the 44P so as to
have a somewhat newer box to get us buy in a disaster recovery
scenario. Moving to a newer version of AIX isn't an option due to the
custom software we inherited with the server. When checking platform
types I see the 43P is listed as being "rspc" while the 44P is listed
as "chrp." As a result of this platform difference our nightly
sysback tape will not boot on the 44P to do the restore. I was
playing around Friday in the smit menus and found sysback and the
option to create a "chrp" bootable tape. Using this option I tried
making a bootable syback backup of the rootvg however I was greeted
with the folowing message:

Hello to everybody,

I've got a strange problem with a VIOS 1.5.1.1-FP-10.1.

The problem is related to memory consumption, that is very high, even
if this VIOS is virtualizing only a couple of VSCSI and a couple of
SEA.

Preamble:

- everything occurred after the creation of the second SEA (which I
controlled, destroyed and recreated - so nothing is wrong with that)

- the environment is made of six VIOS (same level, similar
configuration) and this is the only one presenting this problem

This is part of topas output:

Kernel 0.4 |# | Reads 1
Rawin 0
User 0.1 |# | Writes 2
Ttyout 44
Wait 0.0 | ...

Has anyone a generic script that I can use to perform 'blind
audits' (there will be no login capability - the idea will be to send
the script to the client) for various IBM servers - although will
mostly be p5 models and some RS/6000's.

The intention is to capture 1) all server hardware, 2) server configs
- as many as is feasible, 3) details of attached devices - if possible
(e.g. disk arrays - its firmware level?, number of disks?).

Are there any script junkies out there who have built such a script or
is there perhaps a AIX 'snapshot program' that can do this for
me?

Anyone seen a Putty telnet or Xwindow session ( using SSH ) hang on
logout? It seems that after some time spent in a host running various
commands, a CTRL+D or exit will simply disconnect and hang. The
session does not completely terminate.

I am not starting any background processes or anything that is tied to
that sessions.

Hi.

Welcome all for the first time.

The situation is : AIX 5.3 on p575 LPAR and 14GB of RAM

What is stange - well topas shows that there is a 30%% of free RAM memory.
When I try to run another java process suddenly AIX allocates all his
swap space (process have enough ram, if of course topas showes truth) and
kill the process. Errpt shows No free swap space. How to diagnose and
countercact this??

Hi All

How to check AIX 5.2 Shared memory size ?

moonhkt

Probably not the correct venue, but I'll try here anyway since its the
correct platform.

I have a ksh script that invokes awk with "inline" commands.

The input may come from STDIN or from a regular file, or from a
compressed file.

Handling the choice betwee STDIN and a regular file is easy
(if its STDIN, then I don't give awk a filename)...
...however, I don't know how to handle it if it is a compressed
file...
...I need to run zcat $filename and pipe its output to awk...

If the choices were "regular file" or "compressed file"... I could
detect the filetype
with basename and either "cat" or "zcat" the file and pipe the output
to awk...

In a perfect work I would do something like this pseudo-code:

Guys

Any ideas how to migrate from ESS disks to DS8100 disks in a hacmp 5.1
environment?

I mean these disks are shared between HACMP nodes and i wonder would
simple LVM mirroring could help me to migrate data from ESS to DS8100?

Second worry is coexistence of ESS/DS8000 device drivers on same AIX
box?

Is there any procedure for doing this kind of migration smoothly? Any
ideas ???

Regards

Polani

Hi,
Does anyone know of a command (in OBP) that is the same as the shell
command 'uname -i'? Or the shelll command 'uname -m' ? I've not seen
anything in previouos postings.

Thanks in advance

shaman

I am trying to follow the instructions at
http://wiki.ittoolbox.com/index.php/Install_OpenSSH_in_AIX and am
running into a couple of problems. The first is that some of the files
mentioned are not on the IBM website. The second problem is that the
files available are for 5.1 and 5.2 and not 4.3. When I tried to
install the zlib RPM it said that it was for a different OS.
Is there a better set of instructions available or a better source for
the necessary files?