Category Archives: AIX

HMC – Hardware Manage Console Overview

HMC is an abbreviation which expands to Hardware Management Console. The term HMC is normally used with context to IBM pSeries Servers. What is HMC? HMC is a Linux based desktop PC workstation which is dedicated to a number of pSeries servers. It’s is used to manage LPARs. There can be several LPARs or a … Continue reading

Setting Search $PATH csh

Another quikie copy/paste kind of thingy… You may set your search path automatically each time you log in, by placing the appropriate “set path” command in your “.login” file. (To learn more about the .login file, type “help dotlogin”.) Here is a sample of a command line that you might put in your .login file … Continue reading

Top equivalent for AIX – Topas, Only Better

Top equivalent for AIX – Topas, Only Better… That’s what I searched when I got a ticket from one of the AIX boxes here complaining about CPU being 99% used up. Of course, you can use vmstat with interval, but for those sysadmin folks who are use to using Top, its still more comfortable using … Continue reading