Combining AIX Runtime Expert profiles

A profile can represent a full set of controls or any subset of controls. Another useful way to modify profiles is to combine profiles that represent a subset of controls using the artxmerge command.

You can use the artexmerge command to combine one or more profiles into a single profile.
To combine profiles complete, the following steps:
  1. From the directory where the profiles are stored run the following command:
    artexmerge profile_name1.xml profile_name2.xml > new_profile_name.xml
  2. Run the following command to view the profile and verify that it is a valid profile:
     artexget new_profile_name.xml
    Note: If the profiles you are combining have duplicate parameters, the process of combining the profiles will fail. Alternatively, if you use the -f flag, then the parameter values from the latest profile are used.