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rmsock on AIX.

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I like lsof .   Whenever I’m building a new AIX system I always make sure to install it. I really like the fact that I can quickly list processes that are connected to TCP and UDP ports on my system. For example, to check for the current SSH connections on my system I can run lsof and check port 22 (SSH). Immediately I have a good idea of the existing SSH sessions/connections. I can also check to see if the SSH server (sshd daemon) is running and listening (LISTEN) on my AIX partition.   # lsof -i tcp:22 Value of I :77    np:0 COMMAND... [More]

Tags:  rmsock netstat aix gibson lpar wpar lsof chris

My LPAR always boots into SMS. Why?

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If you turn on Multiboot from within the SMS menu (as shown below), your LPAR will always boot into SMS, regardless of your AIX boot list and/or LPAR profile settings.    PowerPC Firmware Version EM310_048 SMS 1.6 (c) Copyright IBM Corp. 2000,2005 All rights reserved. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Multiboot 1. Select Install/Boot Device 2. Configure Boot Device Order 3. Multiboot Startup <ON> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Navigation keys:... [More]

saposcol and shared memory on AIX.

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If you are a system administrator that is responsible for managing AIX systems that run SAP, then you’ve probably had an experience similar to the following?   OK, so one day my SAP Basis administrator contacts me and says “ I can’t start saposcol ......can you please reboot the system? ” I quickly reply, “ Was there an error message when trying to restart saposcol ?”. He replies, “ No ”. Again I return very quickly, “ OK, have you checked to see if there are any shared memory segments left for saposcol? ”.   Just as quick, he replies “... [More]

Tags:  aix ipcs ipcrm gibson memory shared chris saposcol

AIX 7 Open Beta is live - it's time to test!

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OK, it’s official. The AIX 7 Open Beta is now available for testing!   An overview of the program is available here:   https://www14.software.ibm.com/iwm/web/cc/earlyprograms/websphere/aix7ob/index.shtml   Essentially this program is designed to give IBM customers, ISVs and IBM BPs the opportunity to gain early experience with the latest release of AIX prior to general availability. This is a great time to join forces and help IBM mould the next generation of the AIX OS.   I got involved in the AIX 6 Open Beta back in 2007 . It was a... [More]

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A 'first look' at creating an AIX 5.2 WPAR on AIX 7.

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I created my first ‘versioned’ AIX 5.2 WPAR on AIX 7 today. To get me started, I followed the steps in the following guide from the AIX 7 Open Beta On-line Information Centre:   http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/aix/v7r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.cre/creconfig-create-wpar.htm   In order to create the WPAR, I needed an AIX 5.2 mksysb file to supply to the mkwpar command.   Fortunately, I just happened to have an old AIX 5.2 mksysb image in my archives!   I then executed the following command to build the WPAR:   # mkwpar -n wpar1... [More]

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