Aix Get WWN Number of fcs / HBA in San switch acceptable format
lscfg -vpl fcs* | grep Z8 | cut -d . -f10 | sed ‘s/../&:/g;s/:$//’;hostname
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EMC and MPIO in AIX
You can run into an issue with EMC storage on AIX systems using MPIO (No Powerpath) for your boot disks: After installing the ODM_DEFINITONS of EMC Symmetrix on your client system, the system won’t boot any more and will hang with LED 554 (unable to find boot disk). The boot hang (LED 554) is not
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Broacde San Zone Cli is easy now with my magic excel / script
In first sheet put hostname and wwn, then get output of commands in last sheet.. Just login using putty to san switch and paste it…and magic done. SAN CLI ZONE Creation SAN CLI ZONE Creation without Password
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Aix : Grow / expand your rootvg on the fly (from 6.1 TL 4)
Increase rootvg dynamically If your rootvg “disk” is actually virtual, such as a SAN LUN or a logical volume on the VIO server, then it usually can be expanded on the SAN (or using extendlv on the VIOS) and then recognised on the AIX LPAR using the -g flag of the chvg command: chvg -g rootvg Note: this is supported
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3004-303 There have been too many unsuccessful login attempts; please see the system administrator
As a privileged user, I need to see how many times the user unsuccessfully attempted to log on. Run this command to see the number of attempts: /usr/sbin/lsuser -a unsuccessful_login_count <username> Note: replace <username> for the user account in question. Run the following command to reset the failed attempt count back to zero: /usr/bin/chsec -f
Where are yum downloaded packages saved in linux?
The packages will be saved in /var/cache/yum/<repo-name>/packages/ You have to edit the /etc/yum.conf from : keepcache=0 to : keepcache=1 keepcache=0 { Remove packages after successful instillation } keepcache=1 { Keep packages after successful instillation } [root@sip3 base]# cat /etc/yum.conf [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum keepcache=1 debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log distroverpkg=redhat-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 obsoletes=1 gpgcheck=1 plugins=1 bugtracker_url=http://bugs.centos.org/yum5bug # Note: yum-RHN-plugin doesn’t
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How to configure Proxy Settings for the Unix / Linux Console
You can use the following methods to configure your console to use a proxy server so that console based programs like wget could get connect to the internet through the proxy. 1 – Set the environment variable # export http_proxy=http://DOMAIN\USERNAME:PASSWORD@SERVER:PORT/ # export ftp_proxy=http://DOMAIN\USERNAME:PASSWORD@SERVER:PORT/ In the above configuration you can ommit the DOMAIN\USERNAME:PASSWORD@ part if you
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unzip a bunch of files linux
bash-3.2# ls *.zip 118666-47.zip 120830-06.zip 138852-01.zip 142394-01.zip 147217-02.zip 118777-16.zip 120849-04.zip 139520-02.zip 142933-05.zip 148027-03.zip 119081-25.zip 124204-04.zip 142240-01.zip 143506-06.zip 119963-24.zip 126425-01.zip 142251-02.zip 146470-08.zip bash-3.2# bash-3.2# Problem : bash-3.2# unzip *.zip Archive: 118666-47.zip caution: filename not matched: 118777-16.zip caution: filename not matched: 119081-25.zip caution: filename not matched: 119963-24.zip caution: filename not matched: 120830-06.zip caution: filename not matched:
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High Memory Utilized by ZFS File Data in Solaris
Today, In one of the server 42 % of the Physcial Memory has been allocated to ZFS File Data. root@qctsun02:/tmp# echo ::memstat | mdb -k Page Summary Pages MB %Tot ———— —————- —————- —- Kernel 337924 2640 16% ZFS File Data 884736 6912 42% Anon 694708 5427 33% Exec and libs 27627 215 1% Page
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Advanced Lights Out Manager (ALOM)
Advanced Lights Out Manager (ALOM) From the {0} ok (OpenBoot prompt), type #. to get to sc> prompt Note: #. (Hash-Period) character sequence is the default escape character sequence for ALOM. You can change the first character in the escape sequence by using the sc_escapechars variable. For example: sc> setsc sc_escapechars a. {0} ok Copyright
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