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[Birbone]

I'm an HP-UX Admin and was just handed a AIX production system to also admin. UNIX may be UNIX but there's a lot that is different between these two UNIX OS.

I've learned to use topas and nmon32 to monitor performance, but what logs can we review for system activity or errors.

In particular we need to look at some FTP activity, but know any available logs will be benefitual.

Thanks in advance for your help.


-B

 

[bi]

AIX, like HP, has a syslog file, whose level of logging and location is specified in the syslog.conf file in /etc. AIX has an excellent error reporting facility which you can read by typing errpt | more to get just the lising of the errors or errpt -a | more to get detailed info about any hardware or software problems.

For someone new to AIX, I highly recommend you go to

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com

and do a search on AIX AND certification. You will find several books that are certification study guides, which will tell you pretty much what you need to know to admin an AIX system.

Also, AIX's system administration tool, smit or smitty, is far, far superior to SAM. Don't be too proud to use smit!

 

[Birbone]

Oh, I love the AIX system, just having to get use to it. Thanks for the link.

-B

 

[uptodate]

Oh, I love the AIX system..."

I have worked on BSD for a few years and Solaris for some months, and AIX for about 10 years. So to me, AIX RULES THE UNIX WORLD!