To determine what firmware is installed, we’ll use a couple of tools from IBM to help aid in that discovery. Inventory Scout -> installed on aix 5.3 systems and up Fix Level Recommendation Tool (FLRT) -> Used to determine vulnerability of system from installed filesets, instfix packages etc Download a new catalog for invscout (saving … Read more
There may be a time whereby one wants to clone the VIOS. This can be done on the same system (to an alternate disk), or perhaps for a remote system. This is explained in detail at: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-clone-powervm-vios-rootvg When I attempted this, I ran into a little bit of a snag. I was attempting to use … Read more
When working remotely, one is known to sometime connect to a machine (within the vpn’d network) as a jump box. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to cache the ssh keys properly. Thus, they should be stopped and restarted: ps -ef |grep “[s]sh-agent -s” | awk ‘{print “kill ” $2}’ |sh eval ssh-agent -s ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa Of … Read more