Basic Setup - after the AIX Installation
This link covers what to do immediately after installation of AIX to get the machine ready for real work or installing applications/middleware. Like:
- Time and date
- root password
- Network setup
- Error messages
- Checking the configuration and settings
- Paging space and expanding filesystems
- Users
- mksysb backup
Take this Link Basic Setup
Hardware Management Console (HMC) controls machines need the HMC setup beforehand. Here are hints and tips on the HMC. Like:
- Planning your setup
- The LPAR details
- Memory assignment
Take this Link HMC attached System Setup
You can boot the machine from hardware Diagnostics CDROM for problem determination, hardware testing and setup up something's before AIX starts. Like:
- Why you might do this?
- What this can let you fix before the OS starts?
- With and without HMC
Take this Link IBM Standalone Diagnostics
If you want to install AIX on top of disks controlled by a RAID adapter (like a SCSI RAID5 PCI adapter) then you need to set up the disks before installing AIX.
This sounds like "Catch 22" but here is what to do - it is quite easy once you know the tricks.
Take this Link Hardware RAID
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