[clue] AIX questions

[Mike Bean]

Real briefly, and without going into anything confidential or getting bogged
down in hoary details.   We have a LX/UX agent written mostly in python,
 lives on the machines, gathers up certain data points into dbe files, and
ships them off to a win2008 host for processing into a database.

My problem is this, when the agent fails it isn't terribly descriptive, and
the vast majority of our LX/UX failures are AIX.   We don't get nearly the
ticket volume in RHEL or SLES that we get in AIX/Solaris. Since apparently
AIX requires PPC processors, I can't VM it and play around with it, and
unfortunately, I don't have allot of experience with it, so troubleshooting
these intermittent connection issues feels a bit like shooting in the dark.

Strictly speaking, all we really need for a successfull connection is an
open HTTP port.  26542.
So what I need to focus on is any security/firewall elements of AIX that
could shut us down - things like SE linux/firewalls...etc...etc...
Ultimately, what I'm looking for is advice on how to effectively
troubleshoot intermittent connection problems with AIX.

Bean


On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Jim Ockers <ockers at ockers.net> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> I agree with Chris that AIX is not a linux distro, but given that many
> people on this list use some sort of unix (including linux) and/or are
> interested in it, could you post your questions to the list?  I'd be
> interested to see what your questions/problems with AIX are.
>
> I used AIX briefly a long time ago, IIRC one of the times was on an "Apple
> Network Server" hardware.  One command I remember was "smit" which was a
> systems management tool.
>
> Jim
>
> --
> Jim Ockers, P.Eng. (ockers at ockers.net)
> Contact info: http://www.ockers.net/msi.html
>
> chris fedde wrote:
>
> AIX is not a "linux distro" it is derived from BSD with lots of cross
> pollination from  System V.  But what are the questions and feel free
> to mail me directly.
>
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Mike Bean <beandaemon at gmail.com> <beandaemon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>  Do we have anyone in CLUE who's experienced with AIX, wouldn't mind fielding
> a couple questions for me?  Why on earth in this day and age people would
> still be running proprietary linux distros is beyond me, but I'm having some
> work issues and I'd appreciate a sounding board who's more experienced with
> the distro, and wouldn't mind me pinging them with questions about it from
> time to time.
> thanks and regards,
> Bean
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