Often when supporting AIX systems, it is quite common to use a remote console. Using a Hardware Management Console (HMC) it’s quite common to use the command “vtmenu”, then open a remote console session to a specific Logical Partition (LPAR). This is useful for a number of things. One such usage is when you create…
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AIX packaging version error fixup
Recently after updating the AIX operating system noticed a small issue. The system was updated to AIX 7200-03-03-1913 (That’s AIX 7.2 TL3 SP3). Once the system was updated, looking for dangling packages with: instfix -icq |grep :-: produced the following output: IJ07677:devices.chrp.base.ServiceRM:2.5.1.20:2.5.1.3:-:SHO PTFs Opened a Service Call with IBM, and after jumping around a bit…
Force removal of node and LUs from a down node from SSP cluster
On occasion, you may have cluster node hardware which have failed and won’t be replaced. As such, you will need to remove them as cluster nodes and remove any Logical Units that were being provided to them. This is accomplished in two stages. 1) Remove the cluster nodes (by forcing them out) 2) Remove the…