Comparing loads

[dietz]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone has an idea as to how one might compare the software load of one AIX machine to either, another machine or a flat file that list the required packages. I have run through the smit screens and have not found anything that would fit the bill. For an example, I have one, lets say master machine. Now I want to check all other boxes and compare the loaded packages to the master box. I am thinking scripting right now however before I go that route I thought I might ask to see if this maybe an obscured command or some such thing.

Thanks

 

[aixqueen]

I run a program like the following to give me a printout of all software that was
IBM loaded...as in loadable IBM software, not third party....
Not sure this helps you or not....
I then compare what is on one machine with the other... manually...
#!/bin/ksh
lslpp -ciq
lslpp -ciq | tr ' ' ':' > /tmp/lslpp.op
cat /tmp/lslpp.op | cut -f3 -d: > /tmp/lslpp.vers
cat /tmp/lslpp.op | cut -f5 -d: > /tmp/lslpp.prod_num
cat /tmp/lslpp.op | cut -f7 -d: > /tmp/lslpp.prod_names
pr -t -m /tmp/lslpp.prod_num /tmp/lslpp.prod_names /tmp/lslpp.vers>>/tmp/lssout

I guess a simple lslpp -l | more or sent to a file would give you something similar
but the above script gives you feature codes and such......
if the load was really off a diff would not help you though...it might have to be a manual look through......?

Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

 

[aixqueen]

One last thing...if it were an sp
there is the lppdiff command but if it is standalone AIX machines, not sp nodes,
it will not work.

The code is part of pssp........

same with the splst_versions command