PowerVC 1.3.3 backup impossible to restore on a fresh installed 1.4.X? welcome onboard :)

Well that was a tricky one and I only got away from this painful issue with the help of Surendra from IBM support, thanks to him ! So what are the symptoms ? 1. you just tried to fresh install

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PowerVC GUI : error 500

PowerVC problem error 500 on login page : look for keystone problem CONTEXT : / full on our powervc host early in the morning because of toot many powervc-diag and huge logfiles (and /tmp and /var had not their own

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IBM ‘s Power announcements for October 2017

https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/4/897/ENUS217-494/ENUS217-494.PDF • IBM(R) PowerVM(R) V2.2.6 • IBM PowerVM NovaLink V1.0.0.8 • IBM PowerVC V1.4.0 Announcing PowerVC 1.4.0 Announcing PowerVC 1.4.0 interesting features: PowerVM V2.2.6 • Live Partition Mobility (LPM) enhancements (PowerVM Enterprise only) • Software-defined storage – PowerVM now supports

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[TIPS] padmin can’t execute commands after VIO update

« ` Access to run command is not valid. on padmin root@vio:/etc/security# su – padmin Access to run command is not valid. padmin@vio:/home/padmin$ « ` This error comes from a problem related to padmin’s RBAC rules , which would be missing in

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[CHEF] common errors

I’m starting a post about some errors I encountered while trying out Chef on AIX, maybe it will help some of you, even if these errors may seem obvious for an experienced guy ! Knife bootstrap errors ERROR: Net::SSH::Disconnect: connection

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rpm dependency problem : you need to update the AIX RPM database

This one saved my a** today : When you encounter something like this : But you already have your libcrypto files in the right place (/usr/lib or /opt/freeware/lib for example), your LIBPATH checked, what can you do ? Well ,

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[CHEF] Grant a user the admin privileges on chef server

   

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GPFS : all my NSDs appear as « none None » in lspv output!

If by a wrong manipulation of your disks by the SAN team (which we just had), and on one your cluster’s node , when you type lspv, you’ve got no more labels on your NSD hdisks: Though NSDs are there,

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[NIM] nimpush: /usr/lpp/bos.sysmgt/nim/methods/c_nnc_setup not found

Had that today with a nim_bosinst operation:   Dunno why this error pops in, this file exists (I checked), but I know that it is caused by the following option  in the smit nim_bosinst menu: Just change this to « No »

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AIX : Calculate the SHA256 hashes of a file

  http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/12734/ibm-aix-calculate-the-sha256-hashes-of-a-directory-without-sha256sum    

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