Hi all. I've been put in charge of updating one of our AIX 5.2 servers
to ML7. (perhaps not wise since I'm an absolute n00b, but hey, it's
good experience to fly by the seat of one's pants).

So:
a) I typed "oslevel -r" and got back "5200-04"
b) I went to IBM's Fix Central and downloaded ML7 files to a directory
on the AIX server
c) ran inutoc <directory name>
d) smit update_all

and ran through everything. The only problems the log showed was:

I) Pre-installation Verification...

WARNINGS
--------
Problems described in this section are not likely to be the source of
any
immediate or serious failures, but further actions may be necessary or
desired.

Conflicting Versions of Filesets
--------------------------------
The following filesets are conflicting versions of filesets for which
there
are multiple versions on the installation media. Since a specific
version
was not selected, the newest installable version has been selected.

invscout.rte 2.2.0.4 # Inventory Scout Runtime

Multiple install types for same fileset
---------------------------------------
The following filesets have both a base-level and an update fileset on
the
installation media at the same level. Since they have the same name and
level, the last fileset on the installation media will be used.

Java14.sdk 1.4.1.6

<< End of Warning Section >>

II) Installation Summary:
invscout.rte 2.2.0.4 UNKNOWN APPLY UNKNOWN

After all was done, I rebooted the server and when it came back, I did
"oslevel -r" and got back "5200-03"

Huh? How the heck did we go backwards? Your assistance is greatly
appreciated.

theschles a écrit :
> Hi all. I've been put in charge of updating one of our AIX 5.2 servers
> to ML7. (perhaps not wise since I'm an absolute n00b, but hey, it's
> good experience to fly by the seat of one's pants).
>
> So:
> a) I typed "oslevel -r" and got back "5200-04"
[...]
>
> After all was done, I rebooted the server and when it came back, I did
> "oslevel -r" and got back "5200-03"
>
> Huh? How the heck did we go backwards? Your assistance is greatly
> appreciated.
>

Try using the oslevel command with -r and -l option. Given a maintenance
level, this will give you the filesets that need to be upgraded in order
to reach the given maintenance level.

In 4.3.3, the exact command was :

instfix -a |
sed -ne '/^....-../s/_AIX_ML Ab.*//p' |
while read ml
do
echo $ml
oslevel -rl $ml
done

I don't know if this still work for 5L and I can't access an AIX box
from home (It's 10:45PM here in Paris). May need some cosmetic.

Also try instfix -l|grep -l ml.

This might display several lines, telling you that "all" or "not all"
things are a the proper level to reach the possible maintenance level.

Feel free to ask for more.

Nicolas.

Good tip!

oslevel -rl 5200-04

showed me exactly what was missing - I immediately went to 5200-06!
And for 5200-07, all I'm missing is bos.suma.

Merci beaucoup!

- Phil




Nicolas wrote:
> theschles a écrit :
> > Hi all. I've been put in charge of updating one of our AIX 5.2 servers
> > to ML7. (perhaps not wise since I'm an absolute n00b, but hey, it's
> > good experience to fly by the seat of one's pants).
> >
> > So:
> > a) I typed "oslevel -r" and got back "5200-04"
> [...]
> >
> > After all was done, I rebooted the server and when it came back, I did
> > "oslevel -r" and got back "5200-03"
> >
> > Huh? How the heck did we go backwards? Your assistance is greatly
> > appreciated.
> >
>
> Try using the oslevel command with -r and -l option. Given a maintenance
> level, this will give you the filesets that need to be upgraded in order
> to reach the given maintenance level.
>
> In 4.3.3, the exact command was :
>
> instfix -a |
> sed -ne '/^....-../s/_AIX_ML Ab.*//p' |
> while read ml
> do
> echo $ml
> oslevel -rl $ml
> done
>
> I don't know if this still work for 5L and I can't access an AIX box
> from home (It's 10:45PM here in Paris). May need some cosmetic.
>
> Also try instfix -l|grep -l ml.
>
> This might display several lines, telling you that "all" or "not all"
> things are a the proper level to reach the possible maintenance level.
>
> Feel free to ask for more.
>
> Nicolas.