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Multi-platform UNIX systems consultant and administrator in mutualized and virtualized environments I have 4.5+ years experience in AIX system Administration field. This site will be helpful for system administrator in their day to day activities.Your comments on posts are welcome.This blog is all about IBM AIX Unix flavour. This blog will be used by System admins who will be using AIX in their work life. It can also be used for those newbies who want to get certifications in AIX Administration. This blog will be updated frequently to help the system admins and other new learners. DISCLAIMER: Please note that blog owner takes no responsibility of any kind for any type of data loss or damage by trying any of the command/method mentioned in this blog. You may use the commands/method/scripts on your own responsibility. If you find something useful, a comment would be appreciated to let other viewers also know that the solution/method work(ed) for you.

Friday, 21 December 2012

Two tips for AIX


Tips 1:

When performing AIX installation by a mksysb backup, remember not to perform the following steps.
  1. Trigger open firmware prompt
  2. setenv real_base 1000000
  3. reset-all
It would caused the machine boot up dead lock in firmware prompt.

Solution : Call IBM Engineer to remove card battery in order to dry the cap.
Tips 2:
When you got the message key privileged password, that means someone lock the machine by SMS.

Solution : Call IBM Engineer to remove card battery in order to dry the cap. Then trigger SMS menu and disable password feature.
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