AIX System Resource Controller (SRC) Overview

The System Resource Controller (SRC) provides a set of commands and subroutines to make it easier for the system admins/users to create and control subsystems. What is Subsystem? A subsystem is any program or process or set of programs or processes that is usually capable...

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Default ports of ITM components

1) PORT 1920: By default, a http port 1920 is allocated during starting of the first ITM component. This port is used to serve service console request as well as the TEPS and SOAP server request. if this port is not available, a random port is allocated and used for http request. The owner of the base HTTP port 1920 will redirect the calls to the...

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Where does my space gone in AIX/Linux filesystem ?

One of my friend got a situation where in she is seeing 9 GB allocated to one of the filesystems which is 100%utilized  but actual usage is 4GB  when verified with "du" command #df -k  /mytest Filesystem 1024-blocks Free %Used Iused %Iused Mounted on /dev/mytestlv  9216 9216 100% 48804 12% /mytest  She was wondering...

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MS Word Secret Code

I think most of you all know about this but I wanna  remind again. Do you want a Word document full of text without typing it all? This is useful specially for print test purpose. open Microsoft Word in RUN: type winword and press enter. open a new Word document and...

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Not enough free space to shrink the file system issue in AIX

Recently got an issue in reducing jfs2 filesystem  with osverion 6.1 and have enough space to reduce filesystem. root@umaix /tmp>df -g /orafs1 Filesystem    GB blocks      Free %Used    Iused %Iused Mounted on /dev/oralv1   100.00    75.00   25%      555    ...

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How to mirror VIOS Boot Disk?

Here is the procedure to mirror VIOs boot disk. # lspv NAME             PVID                 VG               STATUS hdisk0           00c122d4341c6e62     rootvg           active hdisk1...

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