Difference between revisions of "AIX"

Quick Tips

• to mount windows share on AIX (permanent) mkcifsmnt -f /mnt/win2 -d share -h 10.156.133.98 -c root -p root23 publib.boulder.ibm.com
• To disable remote login access for your root user, edit the /etc/security/user file. Specify False as the rlogin value on the entry for root.
• To have bash as default shell
  • Edit /etc/passwd. Instead of that other shell, add the path to bash at the end of line having your username. Also change user id to "0" to be root (superuser) if other root users do not want bash as default shell. So, you login with your username and became superuser with bash.
  • If you do not have root access and have for example ksh as your default shell, edit .profile in your home directory and enter /usr/bin/bash as a line
• to tell version, technology level and service pack applied use

oslevel -s (aix 5.3)
oslevel -r (aix 5.2)

• to see firmware version

lsmcode

• to list server configuration

lsconf

• to see hardware details

lsdev -Cc disk | adapter | driver

• to list hard disks

lspv
lspv (names of devices displayed by 'lspv' alone)

Software

• AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications | download one by one
• Mozilla for AIX. Needed by web based managers and like.
• WSM Web Based System Manager Admin Guide

Education and Certification

• Test 180: p5 and pSeries Enterprise Technical Support AIX 5L V5.3
• Test 190: AIX Basic Operations V5 (?)
• Test 223: System p Administrator
• Test 237: pSeries HACMP for AIX 5L
• 062 virtualizacija

Links

• more on IBM Pseries here
• rootvg.net
• download 'maintenance level' updates (srevice packs)http://www-912.ibm.com/eserver/support/fixes/fixcentral
• one AIX themed blog