Recently a new power9 950 was purchased, so it has to be brought into the environment and setup. The specific 950 in question (9040-MR9) is a bit longer than previous versions. This means that things can get quite tight in the back of the server rack, possibly, interfering with the proper closing of the rear…
Category: AIX
AIX or VIOS HBA link failure fix
Sometimes in AIX / VIOS you will have one (or more) Fibre Ports that will complain about a Link Failure. AIX/VIOS may record these as an error: 29FA8C20 or 7BFEEA1F. These errors can appear in the case of a configured fibre port adapter OR in the case of an unconfigured one. Typically if it is…
NFS cached hostname for decomissioned host
Upon performing a mksysb restore of a system, and booting it up noted an error regarding NFS. Jan 14 12:03:18 dcsvchefbld9 daemon:warn|warning statd[7078382]: statd: host host01.example.com is not responding If this happens, you should check the cached directories for the host entry at: /var/statmon/sm /var/statmon/sm.bak If a file exists with the name of the host…