AIX

I have about 50 HP JetDirect print queues on an AIX system that I wanted to remove in a more automated way. The following KSH script is what I came up with to remove the device and queue. The script attempts to ping the print queue (queues are added by DNS name). If the ping…

There are numerous ways to accomplish getting the PID for an established network connection in AIX and Linux using tools like ss or more popular lsof.  In my situation, the system I was working on did not have ss or lsof, so I used netstat and rmsock. If I know I have an established connection…

Had an issue with dialout on an AIX system this morning.  Problem resolved, but I learned a pretty handy little command for testing dial-out (I didn’t have a buttset with me). Using cu -n -d -l tty2, I can dial-out to my cellphone to help in troubleshooting the problem. # cu -n -d -l tty2…

Instead of using Shift+Backspace to backspace on an AIX terminal, you can use the following setting in the .profile: stty erase ‘^?’ Save the file and logout and back into the AIX terminal and Backspace should work now.

Get the serial number of an AIX system. #!/bin/ksh # # Get serial number of AIX server; # # October 28, 2009 Rich Kreider # ser_num=`lsattr -El sys0 -a systemid | awk ‘{print $2}’ | awk -F, ‘{print $2}’` prefix=`echo ${ser_num} | cut -c3-4` suffix=`echo ${ser_num} | cut -c5-9` echo ${prefix}-${suffix}

AIX/Unix Commands free – lists available disk space dfdb – lists dbspaces on the system. use ifxksh to initialize the ifx environment first who -b – displays last date system was rebooted oslevel – lists the version of the operating system bootinfo -r – lists total amount of real memory installed (divide by 1024 to…