Writing AIX Runtime Expert profiles

You can expand the scope of AIX Runtime Expert by adding catalogs and profiles that the program can use. You must be familiar with AIX Runtime Expert concepts before attempting to write new catalogs.

The smallest piece of information handled by AIX Runtime Expert is a parameter. Parameters can be tunable, configuration files, environment variables, properties of objects such as users, devices or subsystems (such objects are called targets in the AIX Runtime Expert context).

Parameters are aggregated into profiles according to the domain of activity (such as user, tcpi). Profiles are the intended means of interaction between the users and the AIX Runtime Expert framework. Profiles are input to the artexget command that retrieve the parameter value on the system and return a profile. Profiles (including values) are input to the artexset command that set the parameters to the value read into the profile.