ODM Question? 3

[reneford]

Hi,

Is there a command to check if the ODM is consistent?

(Something like "lppchk" but for checking if all devices
are correctly configured and nothing is missing...)

 

[gilsont]

[TT]

I don't think such a command exists - I've certainly never seen reference to anything like that in 14 years with AIX.

[/TT]

 

[RodKnowlton]

cfgmgr will report any hardware found without corresponding drivers installed, which sounds like part of what you want.



Rod Knowlton
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert pSeries and AIX 5L
CompTIA Linux+
CompTIA Security+

 

[AIX5L]

synclvodm -v rootvg -> will sync the ODM with the Data of the rootvg Disks.

 

[Mag0007]

in addition to RodKnowlton's response.

cfgmgr -v will do too...

 

[reneford]

I asked this question because there's something I don't understand. I explain:

I've done a clone. It works fine but:

I found definition of device that are on machine one but not in "clone machine". There was some incomplete inscription in the ODM for those devices so I delete it.

On the "clone machine", there is some device that were not on machine one. So, when I run "cfgmgr -v" I saw that there is missing filesets.

----------------
Time: 12        LEDS: 0x538
invoking top level program -- "/etc/methods/load_blockset_ext"
Time: 12        LEDS: 0x539
return code = 0
****************** no stdout ***********
****************** no stderr ***********
----------------
calling savebase
return code = 0
****************** no stdout ***********
****************** no stderr ***********
cfgmgr: 0514-621 WARNING: The following device packages are required for
        device support but are not currently installed.
devices.pci.display:devices.pci.14107d01:devices.pci.1410b700:devices.pci.pcicla
ss.030000
devices.pci.scsi:devices.pci.00100c00:devices.pci.pciclass.010000

What I don't understand, is that "cfgmgr" return some warning of fileset that are not installed But when I do
"instfix -i | grep ML", it says that no fileset are missing.

That's why I wanted to know if there is a commande that verify if info in ODM is consistent with hardware present on machine.

 

[RodKnowlton]

instfix will only report missing filesets that are pre- or co-requisites of installed software. It doesn't know anything about hardware.

When you did the clone restore, did you have the AIX installation disk one for the same level in the drive? Your symptoms sound like what could happen if you didn't.



Rod Knowlton
IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert pSeries and AIX 5L
CompTIA Linux+
CompTIA Security+

 

[reneford]

No, I didn't put the CD in the drive.

It's a Bare Metal Recovery Using Backup on TSM.


When doing a clone, if I put CD, is there an option or something to configure in the TSM menu to say to install
the missing fileset or it's done automatically if the CD is present?

 

[hirschaj]

You can put in a CD right now and run cfgmgr -i /dev/cd0 and the system will install the missing device drivers.


Jim Hirschauer

http://www.aixexpert.com

 

[Mag0007]

hirschaj:

Will that really work? "cfgmgr -i /dev/cd0" ?

If so, VERY cool command! thanks for the good post!

 

[hirschaj]

Yes, it really works. Makes life very easy for us AIX admins.


Jim Hirschauer

http://www.aixexpert.com

 

[reneford]

Thanks to RodKnowlton for helping me to understand some things that I don't completely understand.

Thanks to hirschaj, you're command really works and solve
all my problem.

Thanks to all others for taking time to post information.