Originally posted by: Caney879
We were finally able to track down where the "srvproxy" userid came from. It appears that it is part of bos.ecc_client.rte fileset . The "ecc" stands for "Electronic Customer Care". By running "lssrc -a | grep -i proxy" we got the following output "IBM.SRVPROXY ibmsrv inoperative". The "IBM.SRVPROXY" looked promising so we did the 'odmget -q subsysname="IBM.SRVPROXY" SRCsubsys' command which gave the following output:
SRCsubsys:
subsysname = "IBM.SRVPROXY"
synonym = ""
cmdargs = ""
path = "/usr/ecc/bin/start_service_proxy"
uid = 208
auditid = 0
standin = "/dev/console"
standout = "/dev/console"
standerr = "/dev/console"
action = 1
multi = 0
contact = 2
svrkey = 0
svrmtype = 0
priority = 20
signorm = 15
sigforce = 9
display = 1
waittime = 20
grpname = "ibmsrv"
The uid line matched the id number of the user "srvproxy".
Using the "path" from the output we then did the following command which told us what fileset it was part of:
root@hostname:/home/root> lslpp -w /usr/ecc/bin/start_service_proxy
File Fileset Type
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
/usr/ecc/bin/start_service_proxy bos.ecc_client.rte File
Looking up "Electronic Customer Care" in the AIX 7.1 Differences red book, I found the following:
Beginning with AIX V7.1, SUMA no longer uses fixget but instead utilizes the
Electronic Customer Care (eCC) services to retrieve AIX updates.
IBM Electronic Customer Care services are strategically designed to offer a
centralized access point to code updates for IBM systems. Independent of a
given platform, similar terminology and application programming interfaces
enable a standardized user interface with a consistent usage environment.
Currently eCC provides an update repository for instances such as Power
Systems Firmware, Hardware Management Console (HMC), IBM BladeCenter,
Linux, IBM i and now also for AIX 7. The eCC Common Client's Java API is used
as a common interface by all supported platforms to download the updates. In
AIX V7.1 the eCC Common Client functionality is available through the
bos.ecc_client.rte fileset. The same fileset is also required to support the IBM
Electronic Service Agent™ (ESA) and the Inventory Scout utility on AIX. This
means that on AIX 7, SUMA, ESA, and the Inventory Scout are all consumers of
the same eCC Common Client and share the eCC code, the libraries, and the
connectivity settings. However, each of the named utilities will run individually in
a separate Java Virtual Machine.
All of our AIX servers have SUMA installed so our AIX 7.1 migration process installed ECC and thus added the "srvproxy" userid.
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