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What is the relationship between BCV and SRDF?

How can I check if DST patch is installed on my Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 system? TIA

I have 2 VIO servers on a frame. (vios1, vios2). I have 4 clients using these VIOs. To test my VIOs and disk, I shutdown, vios1 and everything was still online. I guess thats good. However, on a client, when I do "lsvg -l rootvg", I get some LVs that are stale, and some that are synced. I...

Would IBM know if I installed 3rd party apps on a VIO server?

I am trying to automate my telnet login to several servers. I am using 'autoexpect' autoexpect telnet server login: user Password:pwd exit autoexpect done, file is script.exp When I try to run 'script.exp', it connects to the server but just holds there, I have to press ctrl+D, to completly...

Is there a unique name/id/number for SCSI adapters? I am trying to draw SCSI and VSCSI adapters, and would like to know if its possible. TIA

My company has recently acquired another company, and some folks are cross training us about APV, and we are taking over some of their servers. What are some things I should look for when acquiring an environment like this? Some things I can think of is: Do the LPARs have dual VIO servers for...

Trying to do an AIX migration from 5.1 to 5.3; The nim master has the SPOT + LPP source setup, for 5.3 ML 3. When I issue a smitty nimadm for alternate disk migration, I keep getting this error: Client alt_disk_install command: alt_disk_copy -M 5.3 -P1 -d "hdisk1" ksh...

Hi everyone: I am currently working as an engineer in a large insurance firm. There are times I have to communicate with my customer, which can include email, telephone meetings, and face-to-face. I was wondering, are there any tips/tricks you use for this? How do you simplify technical...

When a UNIX system loses an active path what are some questions she/he ask the SAN team? I was thinking something like this: Is this fibercard (WWN #), online? Can you do a 'light test' from HBA to Switch? Is there any activity from this fibercard (WWN)? If fibercard is down, when did it go...

Hi: I have an excel question, I have 2 sheets in a document (xls). Sheet1 contains "contact information", and Sheet2 contains "Items to do". On Sheet 2, I would like to have a dropdown menu of all the contacts in a cell. So, for each task I can select who needs to do what. How is that...

Hey: I have 5+ years of solid experience and I currently work in the States (US Citizen). I would like to try my luck -- work in-- England (or Europe), just to try something new... Is this possible? How does one get started?

As many of you know, the US Energy department changed the DST (Daylight saving time) rules to conserve energy. Major UNIX vendors: IBM, SUN, HPUX, Redhat, etc.. have created a DST patch. My question is, how are you testing this patch before the day? Is there a way to simulate this DST? TIA

I've been looking thru some threads, and noticed a lot of people, espeically the MVPs, recommending mkcd to create rootvg backups. What is the advantage of mkcd? I know you can create a bootable ISO image of AIX (CD or DVD). Also, mkcd you can probally restore the system quicker, and get into...

Is there a way to figure our if a certain machine, UNIX, satisfies the new day light saving time regulation?

I have a HACMP cluster, 2 nodes. It seems both of the nodes share the same network switch. Is it a good idea to have 2 seperate network switch, in case of failure?

I am planning to implement a VIO server, and my company uses several monitoring agents. Is it a good idea to install these monitoring agents on the VIO server? Will IBM still support the VIO server, with these monitoring agents installed? What software do you guys usually install on these...

Planning to do a ML update, and I want to try this alt_clone method. my ML updates are located at /ML9 I am doing something like this: smitty alt_clone Target Disk(s) to install : hdisk0 I am not sure what I need to select for ML update. Any help? TIA

I have several processes that just refuse to be killed. I did a kill -9, and the process is still there with the same PID. The parent is PID 1. Any better way? How can I find out, when the process started? ps -ef just gives me '2006', no exact date. TIA

I know there is a work around for AIX 4.x regarding the DST, I want to be 100% certain I set my TZ variable correct. I am in EST timezone, so I would use: TZ=EST5EDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0 Using: http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/support/unixservers/news/2006/10/DSTupdate.html TIA