On the SoftDist/kronos server, you can change - query the NIM definition of a machine. The convention they have is to name the machine by the machine name in lower case, followed by uppercase ALMADEN, eg haeckelALMADEN, so the NIM command would be nim -l haeckelALMADEN - the platform between rspc and rs6k or whatever, eg nim -o change -a platform=rspc haeckelALMADEN - and the cable type between dix or whatever, as you wish with just the appropriate nim commands. There's nothing you have to change in the SoftDist machine database. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To see info about other machines already defined in the SoftDist database, eg you want to see how other 7025 F40's are (presumably correctly) defined, cd /etc/sd/data grep -i f40 model.db to see what to search for. You get something back like 001:297:F40 7025: Take that second field and use it here grep ':297:' machine.tbl | more If the 5th colon-delimited field is what you're looking for (297 in this case), then this machine is the same model as yours. You can take the eight field, the machine name, and use it in a lsnim command like so, lsnim -l piserv1SANJOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To reset the password for a Softdist userid, get into softdist - SDinit -s softdist - login as a privileged id, jasper for instance, - Select "ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES" - Select "Customer" - From the Keyword pulldown, select "List Items Matching User ID Keyword..." - Type the userid, - Select the userid, - From the "Connected_Objects" pulldown, select "Users..." - Select the userid again, - Then type the new password in the "User Password:" box. - You may also want to "Reset Login Attempts to Zero" - Click the "OK" button. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To see what happened during the customization step of an AIX install from Softdist, from the client machine, you can look at vi /usr/sys/inst.images/custom.trace This will be the output of the "customize" script, which you can see by getting onto the Softdist server and looking at the script in the cd /images/customize.files directory. Do a grep -i almaden * | grep 'TAG' to see all the Alamaden scripts, which on 10-10-97 were script.9147074001, for the Almaden 4.1.5 image, script.6359289001, for the Almaden 4.2.0 image, and script.3210179001, for the Almaden 4.2.1 image. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To see all the log files when running SDinit, see the files in the /var/sd/errors directory. For example, when I installed a PTF, the log was /var/sd/errors/jasper.almaden.ibm.com file. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One day, when I was looking for the Java install image for AIX 4.2.1, as root on the Softdist server, I was able to Equivalent command as root on jasper ==================================== # lsnim -t lpp_source nimclient -l -t lpp_source area414 resources lpp_source area415 resources lpp_source area421 resources lpp_source area431 resources lpp_source area432 resources lpp_source # lsnim -l area421 nimclient -l -l area432 area421: class = resources type = lpp_source simages = yes alloc_count = 0 location = /images/area421 location = /images/area432 server = master Rstate = ready for use prev_state = unavailable for use # cd /images/area421 and there I found the 12MB file Java, which I ftp'd back to my machine. The next day, I found out this wasn't the version of Java that I needed, so I tried a different approach. I used the SoftDist GUI and saw that Java 1.1.6.0 was available. I ordered it installed on my machine (jasper) and during the install, I did a df command and saw that this file system was NFS-mounted snjr1sd1.sanjose.ibm.com:/Net_Dist/001/9466129/9466129002 ... /usr/lpp/inst/MNT Under the /Net_Dist/001/9466129/9466129002/images directory on softdist, I saw # ls -l total 50968 -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 10116 Jul 15 13:13 .toc -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 10870784 Jul 15 13:12 Java_dev.adt -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 12338176 Jul 15 13:12 Java_dev.rte -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 2866176 Jul 15 13:13 Java_dev.samples -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 1879 Jul 15 13:13 rpt.out and I was able to ftp what I needed over, namely the Java_dev.rte install image. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On 7-13-99, after the Softdist server had moved to Tucson, The above NFS-mounted directory was tucr1sd1.tucson.ibm.com:/Net_Dist/001/9729247/9729247001 ... /usr/lpp/inst/MNT