Wow, AIX does not like to make anything easy. Nor do they like to make things intuitive. Need to remove a route from AIX, well get ready to have one command to temporariliy remove a route and another command to remove the route for good. Same goes with adding a route. "Quit your bitching, and use Smitty", you say? Well smitty does not make anythign any easier, especially since the UI likes to show you fields that you does not necessarily need you to use. Oh, plus they let you type in them. Asking me for a netmask when adding a static route does not seem like a crazy request to me? But jokes on you, you were not supposed to type anything there.
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How to Manage Password Aging in Solaris, AIX, and Linux
LogoIts possible that sometime in your short, meaningless life, you may need to create an account that has a password that is set to never expire. This is somethimes the case with headless accounts and specialty accounts such as the type you might have to setup for monitoring or security scanning. You might also find yourself setting up shared headless accounts that have locked passwords in order to block direct logins. This second scenario can be especially troublesome when this is some sort of application or database user with cron jobs, as even an account without a password and expire and lock. If this occurs all of a users cron jobs will fail. All because the account expired.
AIX – Check Availiable Memory, Free Memory, and Used Memory in Gigabytes
Dunce Cap... seriously is that a real thing. Have you or someone you know ever have had to wear one? Or is this just something made up for tv and movies... anyway I digress. Everything is harder in AIX - like looking at memory statstics and viewing them in a normal human readable format (like gigabytes). Because apparently IBM knows best and like to show me free memory in 4k bytes (and filesystem sizes in 512-blocks).
Basic AIX Performance Troubleshooting Commands
Wow, today I logged into my first AIX Server in about 4.5 years. It was a horrible experience. I've been working with Redhat/CentOS pretty much exculsively for so long, I was mostly helpless to do anything of importance on the CLI other than create a few users and move some files around. None of the common commands that I am so used to using even exist in AIX.
Favorite Commands on Least Favorite Os
Hey, take a look at the ugly AIX image that I just stole. Since I ran into the image thought that I would take a bit of time to get my AIX notes together and put my new image to good use.
Here are some of my favorite commands and other info.