Recently I performed some AIX updates and noted a peculiarity. However, before delving into that I should give some information on performing the updates. I can’t stress the importance of updates enough. Too many times companies servers are hacked or compromised in some manner which can be disastrous on so many levels. This is why … Read more
Recently I’ve had to update an AIX 5.3 over to AIX 6.1. The highest level currently supported by the application is AIX 6.1 TL7 SP4. As I only have AIX 6.1 TL6 DVD media available, and this is for an LPAR running off of a VIOS, there are a couple of steps involved. As I … Read more
A recent issue was discovered when assigning the media tray from one blade to another in an IBM BladeCenter. The problem was after you assigned the media tray to another Blade server, and ran cfgmgr to scan the bus, it wasn’t finding the USB CD-ROM. Trying to plug a USB Flash drive in and scanning … Read more