It would better to check and confirm "lppchk -v" gives a clean output
and there are no filesets showing BROKEN state in the "lslpp -l" output

I also suggesting checking that the fileset which you have removed are no more required.

3GB of free space shouldn't be a problem surely for any update - this isn't Windows Bloatware   
You could run three complete AIX web servers and the entire rootvg site in that space.

If you are updating Oracle, that and any other applications, should always be in at least a separate filesystem or two,
and ideally in a separate volume group.  You can add another volume to a volume group to give it more space and remove it later.  Increasing filesystems is easy, shrinking them back again may not be ! 

Sounds like you have isolated Oracle and I believe your passive node updating is the correct approach.

Well, "good" in as much as it will be stable and done to a point.  Obviously not complete though and you would probably want to determine why it failed and have another go to get it to the "tl/sp" level.  However, you might want to examine what the specific failed updates were fixing exactly - did you have a problem in those areas, was there a need for any updating ?

Hi Gurus,

If I have a failed upgrade status of tl/sp and I remove the failed software and I commit and everything works fine. Should I still say this a good upgrade?

Thank you for any comments you may add.

Hi Gurus,

Is it possible to create a temporary storage on the oraclevg FS for the tl8sp2? My rootvg is getting low on free space, less than 3G.

I'm I going to use System Management (C-SPOC)/HACMP Logical Volume Management/Shared File Systems.

Is that correct? Is that safe?

I want to do the update always on the passive node which it doesn't have the resources. Is that possible? You can see the oraclevg on both node.

Thank you for any comments you may add.

For the simplest approach, try "smit install_bundle" for the "Graphics Startup" option
(at least that what it was once called) for example, having loaded the install CD/DVD obviously.   
Next easiest for the selection of particular named packages, "smit install_package". 
(Those being fast paths to inside the SMIT install menu options.)

You can load CDE and X-windows (X11) related things from the AIX install CDs. 
The other desktops are on the Linux Toolbox CDs I believe [noise of spittoon].

Hello,

Currently working on System I,
I needed to install an AIX partition on my companies power 6 machine.

My collegues and myself just received a brief training on how to install aix 6.1 and an overview on basic commands and smitty.

We have managed to install the AIX partition and SSH. but now we are looking on how to install a graphical interface (CDE KNOMe or KDE) with X.

Could someone help us out on install this.
i have currently windows xp with PUTTY and cygwin install on my desktop (not quite sure how to use cygwin)

Thanks for any help or advice.

Stephen

Step 1) Are you able to resolve the client system name with the host command

host <system name>

Ensure that /etc/resolv.conf file is correct

Step 2) Check the file /etc/netsvc.conf  and point to local than using DNS. Ensure the file name is /etc/netsvc.conf  ( Noticed a typo in your post)

hosts=local4,bind4

Step 3) Check the entries in /etc/hosts file. Try adding the IP address and host name of the clients in /etc/hosts file

Update: at about 8:00 I got another error  , from the changed printer.
So I will now try the other possible solutions! And will then update you guys/ girls again.

With the lsvirprt I do not see the printer I changed before, so can not set si to nobody.

The fullmsg file I do not have, but I do not understand the purpose of this file.

Indeed quite painfull, the messages do not have an subject...

Hi John,

Thanks for the tips, in my case printing is done by an user, other than root.
I just changed the DIAGNOSTIC level from one of the printers, and now wait and see wether the problem is gonne.

Thanks for the tips/ advice. Will update wether it is solved or not!