[clue] AIX questions

[Will]

AIX keeps it's errors in a binary file by default.  Use errpt to look for
errors.  The typical netstat and telnet commands to make sure your network
ports are not blocked/not listening.  There is no AIX equivalent to SE Linux
so no worries there.  If it were a firewall it would not be intermittent...

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:18 AM, chris fedde <chris at fedde.us> wrote:

> 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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