Monthly Archives: July 2013

Shell Script for Leap Year

Posted on July 30, 2013 by UNIX Admin

Hello every body, i have below a nice script to tell year the year is Leap or NOT.just copy the following line into a new file name it leap.ksh # Shell program to read any year and find whether leap … Continue reading →

How to change welcome message in AIX

Posted on July 30, 2013 by UNIX Admin

of course each time you login to the server you see the following welcome Message : ******************************************************************************* *                                                                             * *                                                                             * *  Welcome to AIX Version 6.1!                                                * *                                                                             * *                                                                             * *  Please see the README file in /usr/lpp/bos … Continue reading →

How to make the System Ring

Posted on July 28, 2013 by UNIX Admin

if you are a Shell Scripting Developer and all the time deveolpe Shell Scripts, if course you need to make your System Ring after finished the script or when it needs data from the user. try this code on AIX

how to set the Terminal Name on the top

Posted on July 24, 2013 by UNIX Admin

Nice way to separate between your terminals by it’s name not IP Address.   the default way, when you open SSH Terminal using Putty (or any other Communication program like kitty) The IP Address of the server will be shown … Continue reading →

How to mount,unmount an ISO Image in AIX

Posted on July 19, 2013 by UNIX Admin

Sometimes you need to install package from AIX CD or install any other software like PowerHA on LPAR and the CD UNIT was located into another LPAR or you don’t have the CD but you have the ISO Image for … Continue reading →

Script to list all LPARs on all Managed Systems Connected to HMC

Posted on July 17, 2013 by UNIX Admin

if you have Many Managed Systems connected to HMC and you need to list ALL LPARs that you have on a table view like the following output: —————————– Server Name : Server-****-***-*** ———— LPAR Name          LPAR Number   IP Address TEST1       … Continue reading →

cfgmgr: 0514-621 vdevice

Posted on July 17, 2013 by UNIX Admin

if you use VIO Server and need to share CD or TAP UNIT or Disks from VIO to LPAR, and after finishing from Mapping Configuration and try to run “cfgmgr on the LPAR,   you may see the following Error … Continue reading →

how to read core dump file

Posted on July 11, 2013 by UNIX Admin

some time you get many errors on Error Report that told you there is  a core dump file and you don’t know where is the problem?? and if you try to read this file you will see a binary codes … Continue reading →

IBM Integrated Console Solution

Posted on July 11, 2013 by UNIX Admin

The AIX Operating System has a Secure Web Interface Management Tool which has the same functions of “Smitty”.   you just need to open port “5336” on your AIX Machine and try to access it through the Web browser from … Continue reading →