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AuthenticationAuthentication is the verification of a user and his password during the login process. Sometimes it is separated to Identification and Authentication:- Identification: verification of...
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Passwords - HashesPasswords are stored cryptographically. Â When a user types in a password, it will go through a hashing algorithm and the end result is a cryptographic hash.A hash is a cryptography...
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DSH (Distributed Shell):DSH is a tool for running commands on a list of AIX servers parallel (no long running for cycle is needed to go through on a list of servers, but the command will be executed...
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HMC UPDATE - HMC UPGRADE(Remote HMC update/upgrade using network images.)During the update or upgrade some of these commands may be useful:  - monhmc -r disk        <--it is like "df -k"...
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Article 0
Welcome to my blog!This blog is intended for anyone working with AIX and encountered problems and looking for fast solutions or just want to study about AIX. This is not a usual blog, because it is not...
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SR-IOV - vNIC
SR-IOVSR-IOV (Single Root IO Virtualization) is a network virtualization technology. The basic idea is, that a physical device can have multiple virtual instances of itself, and these can be assigned...
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Tape Devices
TAPE DEVICES:IBM tape drives and libraries mainly use Atape (install fileset):# lslpp -l | grep Atape Atape.driver        12.6.2.0  COMMITTED  IBM AIX Enhanced Tape andAfter install and device...
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Network - TopolgyPhysical and logical networksA physical network connects two or more physical network interfaces. These network interfaces (on one physical network) can be grouped together to form a...
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CAA (Cluster Aware AIX)CAA is an AIX feature, and with that AIX kernel has the capability to provide specific cluster services, like heartbeating and node monitoring. Beside these, using Cluster Aware...
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syslogd (system logging):Syslog is the (built-in) solution for logging messages generated by AIX. The AIX kernel, various daemons and applications are able to send their log output to syslogd (syslog...
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syslog-ngSyslog-ng is a system logging application, which can be a replacement of the default syslog. With syslog-ng, the log messages can be sent in an ecrypted/secure channel to a remote server. If...
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GPFS - Spectrum ScaleGPFS is available on AIX since 1998 (on Linux since 2001, on Windows since 2008). It provides concurrent high-speed file access on multiple nodes of cluster. In 2015 IBM rebranded...
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vNIC
vNIC adapterThe SR-IOV implementation on Power servers has an additional feature, it is called vNIC (virtual Network Interface Controller). vNIC is a type of virtual Ethernet adapter, that is...
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PROJECTS - USERS
PROJECTSA project, sometimes referred to as a tenant, is a unit of ownership. Most resources, such as virtual machines, volumes, and images, belong to a specific project, other PowerVC constructs, such...
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When a new server is created with PowerVC the hostname and other parameters (additional user inputs) should be passed to this new server. These need to be configured during the first boot, so some...
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OpenStack
OpenStack is an open source project since 2010 to manage the cloud. It is a set of software tools for building and managing cloud computing platforms, it lets users to deploy/move/stop/start virtual...
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API - curl
POWERVC APIAPI (Application Programming Interface) is an interface or in other words a sort of "software" (combinations of protocols, subroutines...) which receives requests and sends responses to...
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PowerVC - Basics
IBM POWERVC (Power Virtualization Center)IBM PowerVC is a tool/application from IBM which can be installed on a Linux server. With the help of the GUI we can manage the virtualization of Power Systems...
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API calls can be done through Python as well.(I did not test these, just collected, I used curl)1. get token id (with any method)With openstack command a token can be requested (make sure you use the...
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(Detailed description: https://www.djouxtech.net/posts/hmc-v8-rest-api-part-1-curl/)API (Application Programming Interface) is an interface or in other words a sort of "software" (combinations of...
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