Tag Archives: AIX 6.1
How to protect Cognos 10 app server
Problem: Protecting Cognos 10 App Server The Cognos 10 application runs within an application server. As a result it is vulnerable to attacks over the Internet through the open ports for WWW traffic. Here are some notes on CAF. Ant … Continue reading
Migrating a directory to a separate filesystem on AIX
Problem You have a directory that deserves it’s own file system for some reason. This could be because you need to increase throughput, manage backups separately, manage quotas separately or just to have a cleaner data architecture. Solution Create a … Continue reading
iSCSI target on NetApp for AIX 6.1 and VIOS 2.1
Problem iSCSI is much more flexible and easy to manage then a fibre channel (FC) infrastructure. There is a performance penalty of course, but in many cases the performance penalty is well worth the management benefits. This article will show … Continue reading
AIX 6.1 OS Patches the Easy Way
Summary Patching AIX can be intimidating at first for someone coming from the Windows / Linux world. AIX has capabilities that natively support production quality operations. One of these qualities is that one can install patches on an alternative volume, … Continue reading
Change Host Name of DB2 9.7 Server on AIX
Synopsis After changing the name of the host on which DB2 9.7 is running, the following error message is received when trying to start the database: 09/28/2009 02:32:50 0 0 SQL6048N A communication error occurred during START or STOP DATABASE … Continue reading
Fiber Channel (FC / SAN) Performance Tuning on AIX 6.1
Introduction In large data-warehousing applications, the efficiency of storage systems is critical. With the same hardware and software release, we have seen queries that never terminate (i.e. still runs after a week) under one configuration to be able to finish … Continue reading
How to Disable Web Based System Manager on AIX 6.1
AIX has a neat feature that allows to manage a system completely from a browser interface. Since AIX 6.1 TL3, this interface runs on port 80, which makes it easy to find it. However there might be several reasons one … Continue reading
Extending a Filesystem in AIX 6.1
Aix allows extending a filesystem on the fly. This feature has been around for over 15 years. I first used it with AIX 3.1. What an AIX system is intalled, it can be set up with minimal requirements and then … Continue reading
Installing IBM Systems Director on an AIX 6.1 LPAR with a DB2 back-end
IBM Systems Director is a very powerful management tool that comes free with PowerVM (that is: free to anyone that purchases a Power System). I have gathered here the different steps. Most of the information comes from the official documentation: … Continue reading
Mount CD/DVD in an AIX or Linux LPAR
To mount a CD or DVD in an LPAR, first you need to use the media library to assign one of the CDs in the library to the LPAR. For example, using the ivm inteface: Click on the lpar name … Continue reading
