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Summary
The landing Page for Gareth Coates's blog of tips and tricks for using IBM Power Systems.
Objective
Environment
I hope that you find these tips and tricks of use.
Steps
Most recent entries are at the top
- Make An LPAR Tool = malt
- HMC displays the wrong OS level (in an LPAR) after an upgrade
- Using the POWER9™ NX (gzip) accelerator in AIX
- Processor Compatibility modes on IBM POWER9 based systems
- AIX "oslevel -s" shows the old level after an update
- IBM Power Systems™ Reliability, Availability, and Scalability (RAS) features
- Should I update the firmware in my IBM Power System?
- sumcol - a shell script to find the sum of a particular column
- duvg - show space usage in AIX filesystems, but sorted by Volume Group
- dfvg - show free space in AIX filesystems, but sorted by Volume Group
- In AIX, how fast is my NIC?
- How to enable remote command execution (ssh) in the HMC Enhanced+ GUI
- VIOS Virtual Optical cheat sheet
- Mounting an ISO image in AIX
- What happens if a processor fails in my IBM Power System?
- Which AIX command(s) get run if I run this command in a VIOS
- What servers does my HMC manage?
- xtitle - set the name of an xterm (also a PuTTY session)
- Which HMC manages this server?
- HMC command output on separate lines
- Cutting and Pasting in the AIX/Unix and Linux shells
- Special Parameters in the shell (eg: ksh, bash and sh)
- HMC Uptime
- testping - repeatedly ping while waiting for a system to reboot
- FixCentral - using wget to make downloading easy, with continuation and retries.
- AIX UNIX Linux HMC - Easy access to remote systems
Additional Information
You can contact me:
- Mailto:gaz@uk.ibm.com
- Twitter @power_gaz
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