Re: DST AIX OS Upgrade Document

Anthony,

I was pretty sure that was an email addressing oops. No problem.

If you have time, could you educate us by filling in the gaps? Such as to
what exactly is in each of those subdir that you are installing from?
What state are your systems in?
Where are you trying to get them too?

Was all this just to get to get the new DST settings?

Etc. etc. etc.

Christopher M. Baker
Senior Technical Support Analyst
HPCE - Linux Cluster Development and Support
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
330.796.1725

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Hi Edward,

I actually sent this doc off to the AIX list by mistake, thanks to the
magic of Auto-Complete :( That has now been fixed.

Sorry for any inconvenienced this may have caused anyone.

But I really appreciate you taking the time to look it over and comment
on this document. You made a lot of great suggestions which I'll be
adding!

Thanks again,
Anthony

Davignon, Edward wrote:
* Document you PVIDs prior to starting the alt boot disk procedure: lspv

* Since the alt boot disk install requires breaking the mirrors and
selecting the right hdisk/PVID at boot time, you may consider making
sure that you have a recent recoverable sysback or mksysb image either
on tape or in NIM. If it is on tape, are you able to attach the
required tape drive to the system. For example, we use external SCSI
8mm tape drives which require an available external SCSI adapter.

* Do the systems have enough space for the patches:
/bin/df -kP / /usr /var /tmp /home /opt

lsvg rootvg | grep FREE.PP


* Do you need to change to the directory were the Java packages were
untarred and run " inutoc . " ? (i.e. Does it already contain a .toc
file)


* Prior to installing Java, and since it matters for Java, we verify
which kernel version we are using (32 bit or 64 bit):
bootinfo -K
or
prtconf | grep Type


* Verification steps may include checking for the DST APARs and other
patches:

"oslevel -r" or "oslevel -s"

instfix -ik IY75211 # DST patch for AIX 5.3

instfix -ik IY75213 # DST patch for AIX 5.2

instfix -ik IY75214 # DST patch for AIX 5.1

lppchk -v

instfix -i | grep ML

instfix -ic | grep :-:


* Do you need to take another sysback and/or mksysb image after the
patching is complete?

* I realize it is a rough draft. The smitty screen shots display better
in "Courier New" or other fixed width font.


I like the:
10. run /usr/lib/instl/sm_inst installp_cmd -c -f'all' '-g'
'-X'
<-----This will commit any older updates before you apply the new
updates.

And the mount all trick:
3. mount -a 2>&1 | grep -v busy <---This command will
show if
there are any errors with a filesystem


Edward Davignon
Lead Analyst - Distributed Systems
Utility Shared Services - IT
Energy East Corporation

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Anthony F. Fiore
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 9:35 AM
To: aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: DST AIX OS Upgrade Document

This is what we were working with last night.

It's not the prettiest document in the world right now, but I'm hoping
to make it look a little better for next weeks upgrade.

If anyone has any ideas or revisions they'd like to add, let me know..

Thanks,
Anthony



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