This is a new feature of starting with AIX 5.3 TL9 and AIX 6.1 TL2. svmon will now report a new metric called "available memory." This is the amount of memory available to applications. It includes memory in the file cache. The basic idea is that a user can consume the "available memory" without causing the system to start paging to paging space. Once "available memory" is depleted, AIX will have to start paging out to paging space. To get svmon to display the available metric, you can specify the ''-O summary=basic" option. There are a... [More]

Samba is an open source, free software suite that provides seamless file and print services between Windows® clients and UNIX®-like platforms. It can be run on a UNIX-like platform like AIX®, BSD® UNIX, Linux®, IBM® 390 and OpenVMS. Samba uses the TCP/IP protocol that is installed in the host server. When configured, this server software allows the host machine to share files and printers and make them accessible from Windows clients. The following URL provides setup instructions... [More]

HACMP recently announced support for the following: PowerHA supports N6040,N6070,N7700,N7900 Click on the above linked text for full support details.

There is a potential problem with AIX display of local time which might occur around the transition to standard time this coming weekend. If the problem occurs, in most cases the only impact is that AIX displays local time incorrectly for a day or so around the transition to or from daylight savings time. AIX displays standard time when it should display daylight savings time or vice versa. Of course, while local time is being displayed incorrectly, if some local time is provided to an application (eg, changing the AIX system clock,... [More]

HACMP recently announced support for the following: PowerHA v5.5 Announcement Letter PowerHA/XD Announces Support for VIO 1.5 w/SVC Click on the above linked text for full support details.

The System p Support site has migrated to a new subscription service tool for support notifications named My notifications You'll need an IBM Developerwork's ID. (It's free and painless to register a new ID) Subscriptions for IBM Systems provides the following new features: - Ability to create multiple subscriptions with different topics and notification options- Ability to create and name multiple folders to organize your subscriptions- Ability to specify weekly or daily notifications when a topic is updated- Ability to access the PTF Cover... [More]

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As of Service Pack 1 of HMC V7R3.3, there's a new access control that must be considered when creating new users. By default, remote access is not allowed, even if in general you've already allowed remote users. The box to check if you want to allow remote access is found under User Properties in the task used to create or modify a user's account. When creating a user account, remember to click on User Properties at the bottom of the task menu. In the lower left corner of the menu that comes up next you'll find a check box that says Allow... [More]

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HACMP recently announced support for the following: HACMP Support for Live Partition Mobility Click on the above linked text for full support details.

The documentation for HMC Version 7 says that the web browsers supported are Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and later, as well as Firefox 1.5.0.6 and later. While many users have no trouble with Internet Explorer 7.0, others have reported problems. What makes the difference? Sometimes its Java code, and sometimes its the browser settings. For example, a customer recently reported trouble with IE 7 after he updated Java to jre 1.6.0_05 from jre 1.6.0_03. Previously, IE 7 had worked fine. IBM support usually will make a best-effort attempt... [More]

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