[clue] AIX questions

[chris fedde]

Oh. and check the syslogs on the remote.  But I'm sure you already did that.

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:16 AM, chris fedde <chris at fedde.us> wrote:
> 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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