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Using NIM to distribute files to your AIX servers.
At the IBM Technical Symposium in Sydney last week, a person approached me to discuss NIM and some of its capabilities. During the conversation we discussed how NIM could be used to copy files from the NIM master to its NIM clients. I promised to send them some information on how to achieve this ASAP. They were smart and followed up with an email the next day! They’d even tried to configure this on their systems but hit a small problem. "Hello Chris, So trying to push out a new netbackup tar file to one of our nim... [More]
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More NIM troubleshooting....some basics...
It’s no secret that I like
NIM. I’ve written about NIM on several occasions, in Redbooks, technical
articles and on my blog. It’s a great tool for installing and maintaining AIX. Occasionally
though, it can throw you an unusual error or two when things go wrong. For the uninitiated
resolving these errors can be challenging. Here’s a couple of NIM
related questions I received recently. Both are troubleshooting queries. “I'm getting the following error when trying
to create a NIM lpp_source for AIX 6.1” : ... [More]
Tags:  resource to filesystem m_mk_lpp_source: oslevel space failed all a check "master" 0042-185 on already nim copy due not exists aix instfix c_ch_nfsexp: rest or permissions link filesets nfs 0042-081 found. for /etc/.tmp.nim.exports export were and |