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PowerVUG – Session 106: VIOS – Top Tips for Successful Administration

  • 19 May 2021, 14:00-15:30 UK time (BST)
  • Speaker: Jaqui Lynch, Information Architect, AIX & Linux® Performance Consultant, IBM Power Champion
  • VIO servers are the most critical part of your system setup.  If they are not happy, then no client LPAR is happy. This session provides tips on setting up and maintaining VIO servers including upgrades and patching.  Backup and recovery are also covered.
  • Relevant for AIX, IBM i, and Linux® environments.
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Session 105: Everything You Need to Know About IBM i Administration Runtime Expert

  • 21 April 2021, 14:00-15:30 UK time (BST)
  • Speaker: Dawn May, IBM i Consultant, and Technical Expert
  • Business-critical applications must be up and running reliably without failure. When something unexpected occurs, you must identify the cause and correct it quickly. We all want to find ways to make our jobs easier, and unexpected surprises are not fun. The relentless push to do “more with less” is going to intensify while the tolerance for failure keeps dropping.  Yet identifying points of failure can be tricky as complexities scale.IBM i offers a free product that helps ascertain application and infrastructure health. The IBM Administration Runtime Expert for i (ARE) can be used to define attributes of a healthy environment and use those defined attributes to validate that the environment is as expected.  This session covers everything you need to know about ARE, including examples such as:
    • Ensure a test environment is the same as production for software installed and object levels
    • Identify what changed to cause an unexpected application failure
    • Validate multiple partitions are consistent in their configurations
    • Verify user profiles are consistent across all partitions
    • Check that PTF levels are the same across all partitions for a particular release
    • Create custom plug-ins to extend the base ARE functionality
  • Relevant for IBM i environments

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  • AIX migration with DNF
    on 2025-01-01 at 08:51

    If you have migrated from AIX 7.1 to AIX 7.2 with DNF installed, then run the below steps to avoid errors related to AIX version specific packages like gcc. Run updtvpkg to update AIX-rpm package with AIX version being migrated.

  • IBM AIX Vulnerability Let Attackers Trigger DoS Condition – Cyber Security News
    on 2024-12-26 at 08:15

    IBM has reported vulnerabilities in its AIX operating system that could allow attackers to cause a Denial of Service ( DoS ) condition. This flaw also allows a non-privileged local attacker to cause a DoS condition, with the same medium severity CVSS Base Score of 5.5.

  • IBM AIX TCP/IP Vulnerability Lets Attackers Exploit to Launch Denial of Service Attack
    on 2024-12-25 at 20:31

    IBM has issued a security bulletin warning of two vulnerabilities in its AIX operating system that could potentially lead to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. CVE-2024-47102, classified under CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation), is exploitable in the AIX perfstat kernel extension by a non-privileged local user, leading to denial of service through system crashes or process disruptions.

  • The very short message
    on 2024-12-20 at 12:10

    Christmas time is time to relax and think

  • Integrating Ansible with AIX SMIT
    on 2024-12-18 at 12:11

    The ODM files

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