On 2004-11-11, Ken <ucstyle@hotmail.com> wrote:

> servers. lscfg etc... IBM says we need a firmware upgrade, but I cannot
> take this server down.

If you cannot take this server down, you should have created a cluster. Almost
all systems need regular maintenance, during which normal operations are not
possible. If this is not acceptable for the end user(s), you should design the
system so that service is not interrupted when individual parts of the system
are in maintenance.

So, if your problem can only be solved by upgrading firmware, you'll have to
take the server down, I'm afraid.

--
Jurjen Oskam
"I often reflect that if "privileges" had been called "responsibilities" or
"duties", I would have saved thousands of hours explaining to people why
they were only gonna get them over my dead body." - Lee K. Gleason, VMS sysadmin