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. <div>
<br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Strictly speaking, all we really need for a successfull connection is an open HTTP port. 26542. </div><div>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...</div>
<div>Ultimately, what I'm looking for is advice on how to effectively troubleshoot intermittent connection problems with AIX.</div><div><br></div><div>Bean</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Jim Ockers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ockers@ockers.net">ockers@ockers.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hi,<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
Jim<br><font color="#888888">
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<pre>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 <a href="mailto:beandaemon@gmail.com" target="_blank"><beandaemon@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre>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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