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  • 1.  PowerHA Service Packs

    Posted Sun June 19, 2011 11:43 PM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    Hi,

    I've been asked to install PowerHA 5.5 onto AIX 5.3 TL12 SP2. Now I'm taking a look at Fixcentral, but it's not very clear on how Service Packs for PowerHA actually work.

    I'm looking at PowerHA for AIX 5.3, Service Packs and it lists a bunch of APAR's (8 to be exact).

    IZ96160
    IZ91332
    IZ76961
    ...

    and so forth.

    Now do I need to download all 8 APAR's and apply them in reverse order? Or like AIX, does the latest one contain all the previous fixes from previous APAR's?

    I've taken a look at the two most recent APAR's, which both contain a fix for the cluster.es.server.testtool fileset. One lists it as cluster.es.server.testtool.5.5.0.4 and the previous one at cluster.es.server.testtool.5.5.0.3. This makes sense, but I just want to be sure that I'm not missing any fixes only applying the latest.

    When downloading the latest, I did check the following two options;
    • Include prerequisites and co-requisite fixes (you can de-select the ones you do not need later)
    • Replace superseded fixes with the latest supersede

    Many thanks,
    -Kristijan


  • 2.  Re: PowerHA Service Packs

    Posted Wed June 22, 2011 03:34 AM

    Originally posted by: ostost


    You just have to download the latest one. In this case IZ96160 which is SP08 for PowerHA 5.5


  • 3.  Re: PowerHA Service Packs

    Posted Wed June 22, 2011 03:37 AM

    Originally posted by: ostost


    With the latest service pack you should also have to 'halevel' command available that can display the service pack. See http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=14568261&tstart=0 for more details.


  • 4.  Re: PowerHA Service Packs

    Posted Thu June 23, 2011 12:47 AM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    Thanks mate, much help :)

    PS: Is there a way to work out the level and patch level of HACMP without the halevel command?


  • 5.  Re: PowerHA Service Packs

    Posted Thu June 23, 2011 10:31 AM

    Originally posted by: Claudio


    >Is there a way to work out the level and patch level of HACMP without the halevel >command?

    You can use:
    1. lslpp -l cluster.es.server.rte
    Fileset Level State Description
    Path: /usr/lib/objrepos
    cluster.es.server.rte 6.1.0.5 APPLIED ES Base Server Runtime

    The above 6.1.0.5 means: PowerHA 6.1 Service Pack 5
    As far as i can remember, only with HACMP 5.3 the above VRMF was 1 level behind the Service Pack number (ie: 5.3.0.4 = Service Pack 5)


  • 6.  Re: PowerHA Service Packs

    Posted Thu June 23, 2011 06:52 PM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    Thanks Claudio, much help.

    -Kristijan


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