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 5 10.10.10.1 TEST2 4 10.10.10.2 TEST2 3 10.10.10.3 TEST4 2 10.10.10.4 LPAR 1 10.10.10.5 VIO 6 10.10.10.6
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…
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 appear to you and it’s useless information like this : Continue Reading…
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 the following link :
you must open the following Ports between HMC IP & LPAR IP to can perform RMC Functions like Dynamic Reallocation or VIO Vitualization
Ports : “657 , 2300 , 2301“
– If you tries to restore mksysb with mirrored and unmirrored LV’s they might the following error:
0516-404 allocp: This system cannot fulfill the allocation request.
There are not enough free partitions or not enough physical volumes
to keep strictness and satisfy allocation requests. The command
should be retried with different allocation characteristics.
0516-822 mklv: Unable to create logical volume.
BOS Install: Could not create the hd5 logical volume.
ID# OPTION
1 Continue
2 Perform System Maintenance and Then Continue
Enter ID number:
After Installing VIO Server, you try to boot from DISK and you face the following Error :
boot device: /pci@800000020000207/fibre-channel@0/disk@5005076303239005,4000400b 00000000:2 I/O hosting requires a hosting partition - boot not permitted. EXIT called ok 0>
The following series of commands demonstrates how to set the PVID of an AIX disk to a specific value like “0123456789abcdef”:
Note: Setting PVID like this should be avoided normally. It may cause unwanted consequences in your environment. Continue Reading…
You may face the following error on many Operation System not only on AIX :
superblock is invalid : -5
this error means that you apply function of File system type on another type, in another meaning,
Hello Everyone!!
There are many of people don’t know the archive link for IBM RedBook, you can access it for the following link: