AIX 0506-324 and 0516-1736
Transporting servers from one site to another site is always a painful job. There are a lot of precautions that must be addressed, such as backup, for data and OS…
A bit more on sudo: Assigning selective privileges to executables
So I have a user in my box, dedicated only to run database dump from our oracle database. All they have to do, is to execute a specific command, with…
Create a raw Logical Volume for Oracle ASM on AIX
Oracle’s ASM uses raw device to perform their disk operation. What we usually do is that we assign a LUN from a SAN to a server, then assign the raw…
Problem on resizing volume group on AIX 0516-1714, 0516-792, 0516-787, and 0516-404
This is tested on AIX 6.1. When you try to add a disk to an existing VG, by doing: #extendvg vgdata hdisk20 you may receive the following error message: 0516-1714…
AIX: grey screen on Xvnc and client rejected from IP 127.0.0.1
So, recently we need to put vnc server on a newly installed AIX 6.1 box. The installation went smooth, and we were able to start the vncserver. The problem is,…
Preparing LUNs for Oracle RAC ASM on AIX
RAC clusters share the same disk(s) among its nodes, and basically you what we need to make sure that the disk(s) is recognized by each RAC nodes under the same…
IBM Tape drive serial number in Redhat, AIX, and HP-UX
One thing that you need to set up LanFree on TSM (or any kind of SAN Fiber channel backup) is the serial number of the tape drive registered on your…
bash on AIX
I miss bash when I’m working on those aix boxes. On default setting ksh won’t give you your command history on the press of arrow keys. Yes you can set…
0653-447 Requested a write of 4096 bytes, but wrote only 3584
I hit a roadblock when trying to copy a 50G file from an NFS mount to a local disk on an AIX 5.3 server. The error is as follows: 0653-447…
how to find files by age
So I don’t know what that vendor engineer did to my EBS install, some of the concurrent manager function is spitting temporary files to my /tmp directory. The thing is,…