On 2008-02-26, ColombianJoker <RamonBarriosLascar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> AIX has a "registry", is called ODM (Object Data Manager), and was
> introduced on AIX to help the management.
> ODM includes info about:
> - Physical devices, drivers and logical devices. AIX has the easiest
> device management of the enterprise Unices.
> - Software inventory. AIX has the best software package management of
> all Unices.
> - Network configuration. You can use BSD style management too
> (ifconfig, route, netstat, no)
> - Service configuration. TCP/IP services et al.
>
> ODM is a closed source component, but a programmable one, with defined
> and public interfaces, and with useable commands to query and
> manipulate info in it, and with commands to create .h files to
> interface to.
>
> In ten years working with AIX, I've seen only ONE ODM corruption in
> AIX, and I could repair the server.

I worked with AIX for seven years, and I loathed and detested the ODM. It was
forever causing issues where it differed from reality. Getting hold of many of
Call-AIX's internal tools helped, so you could set the ODM so it reflected the
actual state of the machine.


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