How to Change Ethernet Media Speed for AIX

How to Change Ethernet Media Speed for AIX First you need to find out the device name of your Ethernet card. It should be ent0 if the machine has only 1 Ethernet card. Otherwise, it may be a higher number. You can determine the legal values for the media speed...

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How to collect test case for VIOs Issues

How to Collect Testcase for Problem Determination on a PowerVM Virtual I/O Server Environment This article  describes how to gather a testcase on a PowerVM Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) environment to diagnose issues related to Virtual SCSI Virtual Ethernet Virtual...

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AIX livedump

Question What is a livedump file system and how is it created Answer What is an AIX livedump The concept of an AIX livedump was introduced in AIX 6.1. A livedump is a small dump initiated on a running server and does not require a system restart. The dumps are saved...

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IBM AIX- Admin Best Practices

When I  was started my career as AIX Admin, it was like  Greek and Latin, so scared . I am not aware where,how  to start . In this article, I will walk you  through  best practices as  AIX admin  which  makes your life easy. These...

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Regular Expressions Special Characters Explained

“Regular expressions” (often shortened to “regex”) is a language used to represent patterns for matching text. Regular expressions are the primary text-matching schema in all text-processing tools, including grep,egrep,awk ,sed. The following table contains the basic elements, along with description and examples. Regex Description...

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