Commands to check AIX system configuration and users information

How to check the AIX server Configuration details

• Find the OS, (ML/)TL (-r), and service pack version / date (-s) 

                  oslevel -r ⇐or⇒ oslevel -s

• List all attributes of system

                  getconf -a

• Find the type of kernel loaded (use -a to get all options)

                  getconf KERNEL BITMODE
          bootinfo and getconf can return much of the same information, getconf returns more                 and has the grepable -a option.

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• Find the level of firmware on a system 

                    invscout ⇐or⇒ lscfg -pv

• List all attributes for the kernel “device”

                    lsattr -El sys0

• Print a “dump” of system information

                     prtconf

• Get all page sizes supported on this system

                    pagesize -a

How to query users and groups in AIX

• List all settings for root user in grepable format 

                    lsuser -f root

• List just the user names

                   lsuser -a id ALL | sed ’s/ id.*$//’

• Find the fsize value for user wfavorit

                     lsuser -a fsize wfavorit

• Change the fsize value for user wfavorit

                     chuser fsize=-1 wfavorit

(/usr)/bin/sh and (/usr)/bin/ksh are the same file. Use bsh for the Bourne shell.

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How to query installed software packages in AIX

• List all files in bos.games fileset.

                    lslpp -f bos.games

• Find out what fileset “fortune” belongs to.

                    lslpp -w /usr/games/fortune

• List packages that are above the current OS level

                   oslevel -g

• Find packages below a specified (ML/)TL

                    oslevel -rl 5300-05

• List all filesets

                     lslpp -L

• List all filesets in a grepable or awkable format

                    lslpp -Lc

• Find the package that contains the filemon utility

                   which -fileset filemon

• Install the database (from CD/DVD) for which fileset

                   installp -ac -d /dev/cd0 bos.content list

• Create a mksysb backup of the rootvg volume group

                   mksysb -i /mnt/server1.mksysb.‘date +%m%d%y‘

• Cleanup after a failed install

                   installp -C