AIX Tip of the Week Index
[Administration] [Announce] [Announcements] [Best Practices] [Commands] [Comparison] [Competition] [Database] [Education] [Freeware] [Functionality] [HMC] [High Availability] [IT Management] [LPAR] [Linux Compatibility] [Managing Users] [Networking] [News] [Performance] [Porting] [Power5] [Problem Determination] [Products] [Reality_Check] [Resources] [Security] [Server Consolidation] [SpotATrend] [Storage] [Updates] [Virtualization] [Y2K] [vi Editor]

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Administration

March 1999 Configuring LVM Filesystems for Maximum Disk Availability
March 1999 Configuring LVM Filesystems for Optimum Performance
May 1999 Viewing a Remote Screen Using the AIX portmir Command
June 11, 1999 Customizing Modems in AIX with Hayes Commands
July 24, 1999 Reconfiguring AIX's System Dump
July 30, 1999 Changing DNS Search Order
August 27, 1999 Mirror Write Consistency Paper
September 3, 1999 Configuring Disks for Performance
October 29, 1999 Tuning AIX/Oracle for SAP
November 5, 1999 Early Adopter Experiences with AIX 4.3.3
November 19, 1999 Backing Out AIX Updates
January 21, 2000 Identifying the Serial Number of a Remote RS/6000
March 24, 2000 Disabling Remote root Login
April 5, 2000 ANSI Terminal Support in AIX
August 12, 2000 Enabling Non-root Users to Administer Passwords
October 6, 2000 Identifying Which Fileset an AIX Command Installs From
October 14, 2000 Using "chlicense" to Remove Limit on User Logins
November 18, 2000 Centralizing Console Support for RS/6000 Server Farm
December 2, 2000 Viewing AIX Boot and Console Logs
January 5, 2001 Determining Installed AIX Software/Version
January 12, 2001 Identifying the Origin of "core" Files
February 23, 2001 Microcode Discovery Service and VPD Capture Service
March 2, 2001 New AIX Support for System V Init
March 16, 2001 Using timedc and setclock to Display and Synchronize Clocks
March 30, 2001 IP Aliasing
April 7, 2001 Booting Multiple Versions of AIX
July 30, 2001 Restoring a "tar" Backup with Absolute Path Names to a Different Directory
August 5, 2001 Replacing an AIX Disk Drive
September 4, 2001 Split Mirror Copy
September 30, 2001 Work Load Manager
October 15, 2001 Configuring Network Adapters for Redundancy
December 14, 2001 Disabling CPU's in AIX 4.3.3
February 1, 2002 Installp Packaging Tool
February 25, 2002 Distributing and Synchronizing Files
March 8, 2002 splitmirrorvg Shell Script
March 28, 2002 Sizing Page Space in AIX
May 12, 2002 Choosing Between AIX 5 32 and 64 Bit Kernet
June 1, 2002 Remote Reboot Facility
June 9, 2002 Making Backups to DVD
June 14, 2002 Managing AIX Server Farms
July 22, 2002 Non-Strict Disk Mirroring
August 11, 2002 AIX Event Monitoring
August 16, 2002 AIX 5L Fix Distribution
August 28, 2002 Changing the AIX Login Herald
September 12, 2002 Switching Between 32 and 64 Bit AIX 5 Kernels
September 25, 2002 Mirroring rootvg
September 27, 2002 Forwarding AIX Error Messages to a Central Host
January 8, 2003 Managing LPAR Availability in AIX 5.1
April 29, 2003 DLPAR Utilities
May 6, 2003 AIX 5 Error Messages and Codes
May 15, 2003 Identifying Critical AIX Fixes
June 27, 2003 Validating Backups
October 15, 2003 Check Your Time Zone Setting for Possible Defect
November 10, 2003 Configuring Hang Detection and Response
November 22, 2003 Working With Device Settings
January 8, 2004 Migrating to Fibre Channel Boot
January 23, 2004 Maximum AIX File/Filesystem Sizes
March 1, 2004 Change Control Checklist
May 7, 2004 AIX Architectural Limits by Version
May 21, 2004 How to Mounta Remote CD-ROM Using NFS
June 4, 2004 Distributed Shell Command dsh
July 6, 2004 Online Backups
August 23, 2004 Fun with Device Locations
October 4, 2004 System Backup Guidelines
November 18, 2004 New Memory Tuning Option for JFS2
December 10, 2004 Determining if a Reboot is Required After Installing Software
February 4, 2005 Minimizing Time to Copy Large Data Sets
April 7, 2005 Automate Setting Passwords
April 14, 2005 Using compare_report to Compare AIX Levels Betwen Servers
August 2, 2005 Automatic Notification of Hardware Errors in AIX 5L
February 10, 2006 New Dual Boot "multibos" Command (AIX 5.3 ML2+)
September 9, 2006 Fix Level Recommendation Tool
October 9, 2006 Tuning JFS2 Filesystem Buffers
December 5, 2006 Script to Automate System Backups Over the Network Using NIM
January 15, 2007 Using NIM to Install VIO and Linux

Announce

June 16, 2007 Power6 Announcement Summary

Announcements

September 14, 1999 RS/6000 Announcements September 1999
May 10, 2000 May 2000 RS/6000 Announcements
July 21, 2000 July 2000 Announcements, News, Advertising
January 20, 2001 Recent News and Announcements
November 14, 2001 pSeries SAN Boot
June 22, 2002 AIX Support for Microchannel and PRePServers
June 10, 2003 AIX 4.3 Withdrawn From Marketing
March 7, 2005 AIX 5.1 Withdrawel from Marketing
February 19, 2007 San Francisco Bay Area AIX Users Group
July 10, 2007 AIX6 Open Beta Available

Best Practices

October 6, 2007 AIX5.3 Best Practices Wiki

Commands

December 1998 UNIX join Command Functions Similar to Database Join
February 1999 Using AIX uname Command to Identify RS/6000 Model
April 1999 Accessing Remote Tape Drives
May 7, 1999 Using an RS/6000 System with a Graphics Display as an "X" Terminal
May 21, 1999 Copying Tapes with the AIX "tcopy" Command
June 23, 1999 Useful Korn Shell Shorthand
November 12, 1999 Highlighting Output on ASCII Terminals
December 10, 1999 Finding Files Containing a String
January 7, 2000 Working with Diskettes in AIX
January 14, 2000 Recording a Terminal Session Using the "script" Commnd
February 4, 2000 Korn Shell Job Control
February 11, 2000 Locating Modified Files
May 11, 2000 Using the Korn Shell Select Command to Create Selection Menu's
June 6, 2000 Use Perl to Create Web Pages
September 1, 2000 Using AIX's "skulker" Command to Purge Unwanted Files
October 22, 2000 Using stty to Set Backspace Key
November 25, 2000 Using a Web Browser to FTP Files
December 8, 2000 Simplifying I/O Redirection
January 20, 2001 Perl Trick to Edit Multiple Files with One Command
February 16, 2001 Determining the Size of AIX Memory
March 9, 2001 Installing and Using AIX "man" Pages
June 14, 2001 Using "infocmp" To Create Terminfo Files
August 10, 2001 ftp Checkpoint Restart
November 23, 2001 Capturing an X Windows Screen with "xwd" Command
January 30, 2002 Listing the AIX System Configuration
February 9, 2002 64 Bit Commands
December 3, 2002 Determing the CPU Clock Speed
July 31, 2003 Recovering TCP/IP Routes
October 31, 2003 Using the "date" Command to Determine the Last Day of the Month
April 26, 2004 Is There an "unerase" Command in AIX
May 21, 2005 Using "awk" to Sum Columns
May 9, 2006 Mailing Files from AIX as Attachments
June 20, 2006 Mounting an ISO File in AIX and Linux

Comparison

September 8, 2001 Linux for AIX Administrators

Competition

January 28, 2001 Oracle Customers Save Money w/IBM S80 & p680

Database

September 27, 2002 XML Databases
June 2, 2003 Oracle 9i Installation Tips
July 22, 2003 Best Practices Using EMC with DB2
August 6, 2004 Oracle 9i Hints and Tips for AIX 5L
March 14, 2005 Oracle on AIX Tips
September 10, 2007 Recent Oracle on AIX Techdocs from IBM

Education

November 3, 2001 Need to Learn More About AIX?

Freeware

September 28, 2000 VNC Provides X Functionality with PC Browser
March 2, 2002 Spreadsheet, Wordprocessor, Office Tools for AIX
January 17, 2003 mysql Relational Database
June 11, 2005 Setting Up VNC
November 8, 2005 LPARMon Graphical Monitoring Tool
February 17, 2006 Create Web Pages from nmon Files Using nmon2rrd Tool - Part 1
February 25, 2006 Create Web Pages from nmon Files Using nmon2rrd Tool - Part 2
June 12, 2006 Create Web Pages from nmon Files Using nmon2rrd Tool - Part 3
November 10, 2006 Announcing LPARmon Version 2
March 6, 2007 Installing Apache2.2, PHP5, MySQL5, Samba on AIX
April 7, 2007 Store nmon Data in a Relational Database
August 21, 2007 pGraph Performance Graph Viewer
December 11, 2007 AIX Open Source Tools

Functionality

April 1999 (Updated: December 2000) Service Director: RS/6000 Call Home Support
July 9, 1999 AIX Error Notification Facility
December 18, 1999 AIX 4.3 Alternate Disk Install
April 3, 2000 Split Mirror Copy Saves Backup Time
April 15, 2000 AIX Network Installation Manager
May 27, 2000 Using AIX for NT File/Print Serving
June 27, 2000 History of AIX Functionality by Version/Release
May 25, 2001 New AIX Hot Spare Network Adapter Functionality
May 25, 2001 Sys Admin Magazine Article Covering AIX Functions
June 3, 2001 AIX "mkramdisk" Command
September 23, 2001 Work Load Manager Demonstration
January 29, 2006 Using tar Command to Write to DVD
March 13, 2006 Geographic LVM Mirroring in AIX 5.3 ML3

HMC

July 3, 2003 HMC Support Home Page
March 25, 2004 HMC Maintenance Change
September 12, 2005 HMC Script to Capture Power5 LPAR Configuraton
September 29, 2005 HMC V4.5 Required for New Power5 Microcode
December 12, 2005 My Best Practices for Power5 Microcode
January 7, 2006 Interactive Script for Running HMC Commands from Remote Host
March 2, 2006 HMC 5.2 News and Tips
March 19, 2006 Configuring Call Home on HMC 5.2 Using ssh Instead of VPN
October 12, 2006 Where's My HMC and Improving Remote HMC Performance

High Availability

January 7, 2002 Enabling CPU Deallocation
October 12, 2004 Creating Redundant Network Interfaces in AIX 5.2

IT Management

August 6, 1999 Server Consolidation Financial Justification
August 11, 1999 Systems Management Self Audit
August 20, 1999 Server Consolidation Technical Considerations
November 29, 1999 Systems Availability: How Does Your System Compare?
February 18, 2000 Service Level Agreements
March 10, 2000 Internet Terminology
April 28, 2000 Software Pricing Model
May 11, 2000 Top 10 Data Warehouse Mistakes
February 3, 2001 The Three P's of High Availability - Part I
February 10, 2001 The Three P's of High Availability - Part II
May 4, 2002 Server Replacement Justification

LPAR

June 6, 2003 Identifying an AIX LPAR Partition ID
October 18, 2007 System Planning Tool (SPT)

Linux Compatibility

December 23, 2000 Linux Tools for AIX
November 4, 2004 How to Get NFS to Work with Linux
March 23, 2006 New Linux Toolbox for AIX Website

Managing Users

July 16, 1999 Monitoring AIX Users
June 2, 2000 Temporarily Disabling AIX User Logins
March 29, 2003 Creating a ftp-only Account

Networking

November 10, 2001 What's New in TCP/IP
May 22, 2006 Restricting IP Routes by User ID

News

March 19, 2006 New Redbooks, Tools, Webinar's, Tech Tips
June 26, 2006 Recent AIX, Power5 Centric Documents

Performance

December 1998 Explanation Why AIX Memory Typically Runs Near 100% Utilization
January 1999 Using awk to Consolidate iostat Output for Spreadsheet Analysis
January 1999 Improving AIX Memory Utilization on Large Systems
January 1999 AIX 4.2 Update Provides Significant Performance Benefit on SMP
January 1999 Identifying Memory Leaks with the AIX svmon Command
April 1999 Using AIX Web Serving to Display System Performance
June 4, 1999 AIX Performance Diagnostic Tool
October 22, 1999 AIX Bindprocessor Command
March 3, 2000 Creating an AIX Job Queue
July 6, 2000 Diagnosing Performance Bottlenecks
August 6, 2000 New "sar" Flag for Disk Activity
September 22, 2000 Tuning AIX Memory with vmtune
October 26, 2000 Current and Historic RS/6000 Performance
February 8, 2001 RS/6000 And SP Performance Tuning
May 7, 2001 Improving I/O Performance with Raid 0+1
May 13, 2001 Using WLM to Estimate Memory Requirements
June 22, 2001 truss Command
July 15, 2001 AIX 4.3.3 Benchmark Settings for Oracle 8.1 Siebel Server
August 10, 2001 Unoffical Conversion Chart for Numa/RS ROLTP Performance
November 30, 2001 The Effect of AIX Tuning on System Performance
December 8, 2001 DB2 Performance Tuning for AIX
December 21, 2001 Tuning AIX Asynch I/O
March 20, 2002 Estimate of Maximum Network Throughput
March 26, 2002 Using the "mkpasswd" Command to Index /etc/passwd
April 12, 2002 Sizing Disks for I/O Capacity
April 22, 2002 Using "iostat" to Determine IO Rate, Block Size
May 20, 2002 nmon Performance Monitoring Tool
July 7, 2002 AIX Performance Tools from IBM
August 30, 2002 AIX 5 Monitoring and Tuning Redbook
November 16, 2002 Guidelines for Laying Out Filsystems for Maximum Performance
November 25, 2002 Using a Browser to Display System Performance
December 20, 2002 Real Life Lessons for Improving DB2 Performance
February 4, 2003 URL for Industry Standard Benchmarks
February 10, 2004 Relevance of High %iowait in Server Performance
April 5, 2004 Java Installation and Performance
April 13, 2004 AIX 5L Initial Tuning
April 21, 2005 Is I/O Wait a Measure of CPU Utilization or Idle Time?
April 19, 2006 Relevance of High %iowait in Server Performance ..Update
June 5, 2006 New Memory Tuning Option
July 24, 2006 Determining if There Is an I/O Bottleneck in LVM
December 22, 2006 New NMON Consolidator Tool
March 29, 2007 Shell Script to Estimate rPerf Rating of Power Server
June 29, 2007 Using "topas -R" to Record Cross Partition Performance

Porting

November 10, 2000 Porting Solaris to AIX for Performance
January 20, 2001 AIX 4 and HP-UX10 Interoperability

Power5

October 8, 2005 Monitoring Overall CPU Utilization in a Power5 Micropartitioned Server
October 10, 2005 New AIX5.3 ML3 Centralized Performance Monitoring Tool
October 28, 2005 Redundant VIO Server Recovery
November 1, 2005 VIO Server Restrictions for Client Resources
November 4, 2005 Recover Procedure for a Failed VIO Disk
April 12, 2006 Using "dd" to Clone Partitions on a VIO Server

Problem Determination

April 30, 2001 A Simple Problem Determination Tool
June 15, 2003 Problem Identification Methodology
September 20, 2004 IBM Severity Codes
March 24, 2005 E-mail Notification of System Problems

Products

July 29, 2000 System Backup (Sysback)
December 8, 2003 Support Life Cycle for IBM Software

Reality_Check

October 21, 2005 Reality Check - Sun Claims World-Record Benchmarks

Resources

January 1999 iSource for Automatic Notification of IBM Announcements
April 1999 RS/6000 User Guides, Planning Documents Available on the Web
June 18, 1999 IBM AIX Support Web Site
September 10, 1999 AIX Freeware Web Sites
October 1, 1999 RS/6000 Web Resources
October 11, 1999 Frequently Asked AIX Questions
October 14, 1999 Support Line Escalation Procedures
February 25, 2000 IBM alphaWorks
June 7, 2000 RS/6000 Order Status Website
June 16, 2000 Ordering AIX Media Refreshes
June 17, 2000 Where Can I Find a List of 3rd Party AIX Applications?
July 16, 2000 Subscribing to AIX Mailing Lists
August 20, 2000 Designing IBM Storage Area Networks
August 28, 2000 AIX Certification Information
September 14, 2000 RS/6000 Electronic Catalog
November 3, 2000 Designing Web Sites
December 15, 2000 IBM Application Availability Guide for AIX
April 15, 2001 Doug Ranz' Useful RS/pSeries/AIX Web Sites
November 30, 2001 The AIX FixDist to Be Replaced 12/31/2001
December 4, 2001 Email Notification of New Microcode and Fixes
April 7, 2002 AIX Whitepapers
July 13, 2002 Raid Disk Definitions
September 3, 2002 Automatic Notification of AIX Microcode and Maintenance Level Updates
October 8, 2002 New Redbooks, Fall 2002
October 18, 2002 New pSeries/AIX Portal
February 19, 2003 IBM eServer Developer Domain Website Tutorials
March 2, 2003 NMON, KSH93, Websphere, TotalStorage Links
September 27, 2004 Power5 Documentation
January 24, 2005 IBM Visio Stencils
February 21, 2005 Power5 Documentation
March 3, 2005 New Power5 Centric Documentation
May 1, 2005 Electronic Submission of SupportLine Questions
May 12, 2005 New and Updated AIX/Power5 Centric Documentation
November 11, 2005 IBM Tecdocs Technical Sales Website
November 25, 2005 Workload Estimator Tool
December 3, 2005 Electronic Support
December 10, 2006 IBM RSS Feeds
December 12, 2006 AIX Facts and Features
December 19, 2006 Solaris to AIX Migration Redbook
February 27, 2007 AIX Web Portal and Search Engine
March 12, 2007 Recent System p / AIX Documentation
April 20, 2007 Website for Ordering Entitled Software Upgrades
July 16, 2007 AIX, VIO and HMC Facts and Features

Security

December 13, 2001 Unix Login Security Exposure
July 23, 2002 Strengthening AIX Security
September 22, 2003 Anti-Virus Software for AIX
January 13, 2004 eServer Security Planner
June 26, 2004 Disk Scrubbing Tools
August 22, 2005 Installing SSH
August 29, 2005 Potential Spam Relay Issue with Default AIX sendmail Configuration
June 24, 2007 AIX Security Expert
July 6, 2007 Securing the VIO Server Using the "viosecure" Command

Server Consolidation

November 4, 2002 My Guidelines for Combining Applications
September 22, 2007 Sizing Replacement Servers

SpotATrend

March 23, 2006 Spot a Trend, Tell a Friend

Storage

February 1999 AIX SSA Spare Tool for Managing Mirrored Disks
April 7, 2000 SSA Alternative to LVM Mirroring
July 10, 2000 SSA Raid Whitepaper
May 25, 2005 FlashCopy Support on AIX

Updates

January 31, 2006 US Day Savings Time Change in 2007
February 2, 2006 New AIX Maintenance Strategy

Virtualization

June 27, 2005 Disk Mirroring in Power5 Virtual I/O Server
July 5, 2005 How to Set Up the Power5 Virtual I/O Server
August 13, 2005 Sizing Servers Using Advanced Power Virtualization
November 3, 2006 New VIO Best Practices Redbook
April 2, 2007 Workaround for Resizing "rootvg" Disks Located on VIO Server
October 1, 2007 Using NIM to Install VIO Servers
November 9, 2007 Configuring SAN Boot for Virtual AIX Clients Using MPIO

Y2K

April 1999 AIX Fixcheck Tool to Verify Y2K Compliance
May 7, 1999 RS/6000 Y2K Firmware Upgrade Notification
September 20, 1999 Sources of RS/6000 Y2K Compliance Information
December 24, 1999 Y2K Contact List

vi Editor

May 14, 1999 vi Editor Search/Replace
May 28, 1999 vi Editor Cut/Paste
September 17, 1999 Entering Special Characters in vi
September 24, 1999 vi Editor Abbreviation and Map Commands
March 17, 2000 Running AIX Commands in a vi Editor Session
July 3, 2001 Search/Replace in vi at a Specific Column
March 22, 2003 Search and Delete Lines within vi



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