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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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…
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…