Nim installation with mksysb and spot

[SylvainL]

Hi all

My goal is to recover each night the dairly mksysb.
Creationg a spot ressource each night is too long so I try to recover the mksysb ressource on a backup server with an older spot ressource.
There are no fix or update filesets of the system so I think it s possible

But nim reject me because spot ressource is created with another mksysb.
The command is :
nim -o bos_inst -a accept_licenses=yes -a installp_flags="cNgX" -a source=mksysb -a mksysb='my mksysb' -a spot='my _spot' -a bosinst_data=bosinst_data -a force_push=yes 'my server'

And the error :
0042-001 nim: processing error encountered on "master":
0042-366 m_bos_inst: This SPOT may only be used to install the mksysb "my older mksysb".

Nim say : "may only" , not "must only" , so I think there's a solution.

I can't use lpp_source... nothing is sure here...
Have someone a solution ?
Thanks by advance.

Sylvain

 

[kierong]

Your NIM server should be at the highest AIX version and maintenance level you support. The corresponding spot and lpp source should match that level. If you support older AIX versions then the corresponding lpp source and spot's should also be at the highest version and maintenance level for those older versions.

 

[masrolyat]

Sylvain
what returns from oslevel -r on the nim client?
what oslevel is the spot? lsnim -l <name of your spot>
The spot should be the same or greater than your client

if it is not then you can install fixes into the spot to make it so.

questions?