Systems Director 6.3 server on AIX, IP address change = Simple (AIXpert Blog)

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Systems Director 6.3 server on AIX, IP address change = Simple

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As part of my moving computer room project, I had to change the IP address of my Systems Director server. I recall a long time ago there were issues in this area for (I think) ISD 6.1, so I was not looking forward to this change. Just for a change, I thought I would check the documentation first :-) Once I found the 6.3 part of the documentation there was a whole page on how to do this IP address change. It turns out to be very simple on ISD 6.3.

Stop Systems Director with: smstop
Change the IP address and DNS server, of course, to match.
Reboot the Systems Director AIX server - this might not have been necessary but I wanted to flush out the old address and get the virtual machine resynchronised with the HMC etc.
When AIX reboots, it automatically restart Systems Director too.
Finally, wait a bit! I waited an hour but that might have been overkill but it was time for lunch.

Systems Director spots the change of IP address and automatically goes round each of the endpoints updating it with the new ISD AIX server IP address.

Wow! That is really cool. Every thing is working as before. I should not have worried.

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