Command to list software installed

[SolitaireHere]

I am a new administrator of a RS/6000 box running AIX "everything is new here , I am new to AIX , our risc box is new ".

My management wants me to verify the software we've received from IBM along with the hardware. They've giving me a list of products that goes something like


5692-A5l system software
media 5765e62 AIX V5.2
bla bla bla


The list goes on , showing a number of products. I need to cross-reference this list with something on the system . I've tried lslpp , both manually and also through smitty to get that list and the results are completely different from what I need. Besides , smitty gives 3000 + products!!!

Is there a special command to inventory softawre products on the machine ?

 

[mrn]

You can lookup all the options available to lslpp using

man lslpp

Try

lslpp -h all
or
lslpp -L all

Another good tip is when your in smit press F6 to see the command it is going to run.

Mike

"A foolproof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble, then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

 

[hfaix]

I would start with "smitty list_installed

 

[gilsont]

[TT]

In addition to using lslpp remember to use

rpm -qa

to list any RPM format software you may have on your machines. (There are probably a few default RPM packages and if you have installed OpenSSH and OpenSSL, they will be there also).

[/TT]

 

[letis]

hello,

well, your question highlight a rather tricky point in AIX ))

first, just a comment about what you write :
"5692-A5l media 5765e62 AIX V5.2 bla bla bla "

It is what it says: there's in your order a product, part number 5692-a5l, which are the media installation of a product called AIX 5.2, whose part number is 5765-e62.

(At IBM's, part numbers are 7 digit codes which identifies the commercial reference of a product (hardware, software, ...))

Therefore check that you have AIX installation cd-roms, and that you have AIX 5.2 (pretty obvious ).

Regarding the other part of your question, that I understand as "how to make a correlation between the part numbers such as 5765-e62 and the output of lslpp command", this is the tricky point, because the software XXXX you are looking for will have been installed from several archive files whom lslpp lists the name.

For example, when you install the Visual Age C/C++ compiler, lslpp will list the several archive file names from which the product was installed (such as vacpp.cmp.6.0.0.0, but some other archive file names have less obvious names).

So, divide your problem in two part : first, for every software product listed on the order form, check that you have installation media. Then, if this is really up to you to do it, you will have to check if this software have been installed or not on the system, and at this stage use lslpp.


hope this helps and tell if something was misundertood,

regards