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…
Category: AIX
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…
Fixing aix hba port erroneous error reporting
On an AIX system it is possible for garbage erroneous errors to be written to the error report. Recently it was discovered that AIX was attempting to bring a HBA port up, then generating two errors. The errors in question which are generated are similar to: FCA_ERR12 INFO: Adapter link in dead state during driver…