Re: Antwort: mksysb restore error

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Date:         Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:18:22 +0100
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

The simple answer is that the SPOT is just a thing you need for NIM, like
lppsource. It's effectively an entire /usr filesystem, used during the
install. Ideally, it should be at the same level as both the lppsource and
the mksysb image that you are using. (You can get away with discrepancies
sometimes, but not always.)

One of the simplest ways to rebuild it in a PSSP environment is to delete
it: the next time you run setup_server the SPOT will be re-created from your
lppsource. (The SPOT is in /spdata/sys1/install/aixNNN. I think you can
just delete this directory, but it might be better to do it through the NIM
commands/smit.)

You can also modify it using NIM commands. The easiest way is to use smit
(smitty nim). You can install, remove and update AIX filesets very much
like you would a real system.

If you've copied your AIX maintenance to your lppsource, then you just need
to do an update of the SPOT from that.

e.g.
smitty nim_res
Select "Perform Operations on Resources"
Select your SPOT from the list, (you may have more than one, if you're
maintaining multiple versions of AIX).
Select "update_all".
As the Source select your lppsource.
Then it's just like a normal update_all.

Check the "Network Installation Management Guide and Reference" for more
details. There's some information in the PSSP Installation and Migration
Guide as well.

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> From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU] On
> Behalf Of augusta Zhou
> Sent: 06 December 2004 01:53
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Re: Antwort: mksysb restore error
>
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>
> Thanks vensna,
>
> Another thing I haven't mentioned is that I use the PSSP
> remote restore
> with a mksysb file on the PSSP CWS, and just now, I make a test showed
> that, if I use the default bos.obj.ssp.520_64 image for
> install, it is ok,
> but when I use the my own mksysb image, there is a warning
> message when I
> run the setup_server command:
>
> "Warning update the SPOT to match the mksysb level or create
> a at the same
> level. new spot that has the same level."
>
> Maybe it is the problem, but what's the SPOT? how can I upgrade it?

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