[clue] AIX questions

chris fedde chris at fedde.us
Fri Apr 1 09:16:32 MDT 2011


Without more info all I can recommend is adding more instrumentation
and logging to the agent and checking the logs around failure.
Python includes a pretty powerful logging subsystem iirc.

Normal problem partitioning rules apply.

chris

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Mike Bean <beandaemon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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> 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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