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Administration
March 1999	Configuring LVM Filesystems for Maximum Disk Availability
March 1999	Configuring LVM Filesystems for Optimum Performance
May 1999	Viewing a Remote Screen Using the AIX portmir Command
June 11, 1999	Customizing Modems in AIX with Hayes Commands
July 24, 1999	Reconfiguring AIX's System Dump
July 30, 1999	Changing DNS Search Order
August 27, 1999	Mirror Write Consistency Paper
September 3, 1999	Configuring Disks for Performance
October 29, 1999	Tuning AIX/Oracle for SAP
November 5, 1999	Early Adopter Experiences with AIX 4.3.3
November 19, 1999	Backing Out AIX Updates
January 21, 2000	Identifying the Serial Number of a Remote RS/6000
March 24, 2000	Disabling Remote root Login
April 5, 2000	ANSI Terminal Support in AIX
August 12, 2000	Enabling Non-root Users to Administer Passwords
October 6, 2000	Identifying Which Fileset an AIX Command Installs From
October 14, 2000	Using "chlicense" to Remove Limit on User Logins
November 18, 2000	Centralizing Console Support for RS/6000 Server Farm
December 2, 2000	Viewing AIX Boot and Console Logs
January 5, 2001	Determining Installed AIX Software/Version
January 12, 2001	Identifying the Origin of "core" Files
February 23, 2001	Microcode Discovery Service and VPD Capture Service
March 2, 2001	New AIX Support for System V Init
March 16, 2001	Using timedc and setclock to Display and Synchronize Clocks
March 30, 2001	IP Aliasing
April 7, 2001	Booting Multiple Versions of AIX
July 30, 2001	Restoring a "tar" Backup with Absolute Path Names to a Different Directory
August 5, 2001	Replacing an AIX Disk Drive
September 4, 2001	Split Mirror Copy
September 30, 2001	Work Load Manager
October 15, 2001	Configuring Network Adapters for Redundancy
December 14, 2001	Disabling CPU's in AIX 4.3.3
February 1, 2002	Installp Packaging Tool
February 25, 2002	Distributing and Synchronizing Files
March 8, 2002	splitmirrorvg Shell Script
March 28, 2002	Sizing Page Space in AIX
May 12, 2002	Choosing Between AIX 5 32 and 64 Bit Kernet
June 1, 2002	Remote Reboot Facility
June 9, 2002	Making Backups to DVD
June 14, 2002	Managing AIX Server Farms
July 22, 2002	Non-Strict Disk Mirroring
August 11, 2002	AIX Event Monitoring
August 16, 2002	AIX 5L Fix Distribution
August 28, 2002	Changing the AIX Login Herald
September 12, 2002	Switching Between 32 and 64 Bit AIX 5 Kernels
September 25, 2002	Mirroring rootvg
September 27, 2002	Forwarding AIX Error Messages to a Central Host
January 8, 2003	Managing LPAR Availability in AIX 5.1
April 29, 2003	DLPAR Utilities
May 6, 2003	AIX 5 Error Messages and Codes
May 15, 2003	Identifying Critical AIX Fixes
June 27, 2003	Validating Backups
October 15, 2003	Check Your Time Zone Setting for Possible Defect
November 10, 2003	Configuring Hang Detection and Response
November 22, 2003	Working With Device Settings
January 8, 2004	Migrating to Fibre Channel Boot
January 23, 2004	Maximum AIX File/Filesystem Sizes
March 1, 2004	Change Control Checklist
May 7, 2004	AIX Architectural Limits by Version
May 21, 2004	How to Mounta Remote CD-ROM Using NFS
June 4, 2004	Distributed Shell Command dsh
July 6, 2004	Online Backups
August 23, 2004	Fun with Device Locations
October 4, 2004	System Backup Guidelines
November 18, 2004	New Memory Tuning Option for JFS2
December 10, 2004	Determining if a Reboot is Required After Installing Software
February 4, 2005	Minimizing Time to Copy Large Data Sets
April 7, 2005	Automate Setting Passwords
April 14, 2005	Using compare_report to Compare AIX Levels Betwen Servers
August 2, 2005	Automatic Notification of Hardware Errors in AIX 5L
February 10, 2006	New Dual Boot "multibos" Command (AIX 5.3 ML2+)
September 9, 2006	Fix Level Recommendation Tool
October 9, 2006	Tuning JFS2 Filesystem Buffers
December 5, 2006	Script to Automate System Backups Over the Network Using NIM
January 15, 2007	Using NIM to Install VIO and Linux
Announce
June 16, 2007	Power6 Announcement Summary
Announcements
September 14, 1999	RS/6000 Announcements September 1999
May 10, 2000	May 2000 RS/6000 Announcements
July 21, 2000	July 2000 Announcements, News, Advertising
January 20, 2001	Recent News and Announcements
November 14, 2001	pSeries SAN Boot
June 22, 2002	AIX Support for Microchannel and PRePServers
June 10, 2003	AIX 4.3 Withdrawn From Marketing
March 7, 2005	AIX 5.1 Withdrawel from Marketing
February 19, 2007	San Francisco Bay Area AIX Users Group
July 10, 2007	AIX6 Open Beta Available
Best Practices
October 6, 2007	AIX5.3 Best Practices Wiki
Commands
December 1998	UNIX join Command Functions Similar to Database Join
February 1999	Using AIX uname Command to Identify RS/6000 Model
April 1999	Accessing Remote Tape Drives
May 7, 1999	Using an RS/6000 System with a Graphics Display as an "X" Terminal
May 21, 1999	Copying Tapes with the AIX "tcopy" Command
June 23, 1999	Useful Korn Shell Shorthand
November 12, 1999	Highlighting Output on ASCII Terminals
December 10, 1999	Finding Files Containing a String
January 7, 2000	Working with Diskettes in AIX
January 14, 2000	Recording a Terminal Session Using the "script" Commnd
February 4, 2000	Korn Shell Job Control
February 11, 2000	Locating Modified Files
May 11, 2000	Using the Korn Shell Select Command to Create Selection Menu's
June 6, 2000	Use Perl to Create Web Pages
September 1, 2000	Using AIX's "skulker" Command to Purge Unwanted Files
October 22, 2000	Using stty to Set Backspace Key
November 25, 2000	Using a Web Browser to FTP Files
December 8, 2000	Simplifying I/O Redirection
January 20, 2001	Perl Trick to Edit Multiple Files with One Command
February 16, 2001	Determining the Size of AIX Memory
March 9, 2001	Installing and Using AIX "man" Pages
June 14, 2001	Using "infocmp" To Create Terminfo Files
August 10, 2001	ftp Checkpoint Restart
November 23, 2001	Capturing an X Windows Screen with "xwd" Command
January 30, 2002	Listing the AIX System Configuration
February 9, 2002	64 Bit Commands
December 3, 2002	Determing the CPU Clock Speed
July 31, 2003	Recovering TCP/IP Routes
October 31, 2003	Using the "date" Command to Determine the Last Day of the Month
April 26, 2004	Is There an "unerase" Command in AIX
May 21, 2005	Using "awk" to Sum Columns
May 9, 2006	Mailing Files from AIX as Attachments
June 20, 2006	Mounting an ISO File in AIX and Linux
Comparison
September 8, 2001	Linux for AIX Administrators
Competition
January 28, 2001	Oracle Customers Save Money w/IBM S80 & p680
Database
September 27, 2002	XML Databases
June 2, 2003	Oracle 9i Installation Tips
July 22, 2003	Best Practices Using EMC with DB2
August 6, 2004	Oracle 9i Hints and Tips for AIX 5L
March 14, 2005	Oracle on AIX Tips
September 10, 2007	Recent Oracle on AIX Techdocs from IBM
Education
November 3, 2001	Need to Learn More About AIX?
Freeware
September 28, 2000	VNC Provides X Functionality with PC Browser
March 2, 2002	Spreadsheet, Wordprocessor, Office Tools for AIX
January 17, 2003	mysql Relational Database
June 11, 2005	Setting Up VNC
November 8, 2005	LPARMon Graphical Monitoring Tool
February 17, 2006	Create Web Pages from nmon Files Using nmon2rrd Tool - Part 1
February 25, 2006	Create Web Pages from nmon Files Using nmon2rrd Tool - Part 2
June 12, 2006	Create Web Pages from nmon Files Using nmon2rrd Tool - Part 3
November 10, 2006	Announcing LPARmon Version 2
March 6, 2007	Installing Apache2.2, PHP5, MySQL5, Samba on AIX
April 7, 2007	Store nmon Data in a Relational Database
August 21, 2007	pGraph Performance Graph Viewer
December 11, 2007	AIX Open Source Tools
Functionality
April 1999 (Updated: December 2000)	Service Director: RS/6000 Call Home Support
July 9, 1999	AIX Error Notification Facility
December 18, 1999	AIX 4.3 Alternate Disk Install
April 3, 2000	Split Mirror Copy Saves Backup Time
April 15, 2000	AIX Network Installation Manager
May 27, 2000	Using AIX for NT File/Print Serving
June 27, 2000	History of AIX Functionality by Version/Release
May 25, 2001	New AIX Hot Spare Network Adapter Functionality
May 25, 2001	Sys Admin Magazine Article Covering AIX Functions
June 3, 2001	AIX "mkramdisk" Command
September 23, 2001	Work Load Manager Demonstration
January 29, 2006	Using tar Command to Write to DVD
March 13, 2006	Geographic LVM Mirroring in AIX 5.3 ML3
HMC
July 3, 2003	HMC Support Home Page
March 25, 2004	HMC Maintenance Change
September 12, 2005	HMC Script to Capture Power5 LPAR Configuraton
September 29, 2005	HMC V4.5 Required for New Power5 Microcode
December 12, 2005	My Best Practices for Power5 Microcode
January 7, 2006	Interactive Script for Running HMC Commands from Remote Host
March 2, 2006	HMC 5.2 News and Tips
March 19, 2006	Configuring Call Home on HMC 5.2 Using ssh Instead of VPN
October 12, 2006	Where's My HMC and Improving Remote HMC Performance
High Availability
January 7, 2002	Enabling CPU Deallocation
October 12, 2004	Creating Redundant Network Interfaces in AIX 5.2
IT Management
August 6, 1999	Server Consolidation Financial Justification
August 11, 1999	Systems Management Self Audit
August 20, 1999	Server Consolidation Technical Considerations
November 29, 1999	Systems Availability: How Does Your System Compare?
February 18, 2000	Service Level Agreements
March 10, 2000	Internet Terminology
April 28, 2000	Software Pricing Model
May 11, 2000	Top 10 Data Warehouse Mistakes
February 3, 2001	The Three P's of High Availability - Part I
February 10, 2001	The Three P's of High Availability - Part II
May 4, 2002	Server Replacement Justification
LPAR
June 6, 2003	Identifying an AIX LPAR Partition ID
October 18, 2007	System Planning Tool (SPT)
Linux Compatibility
December 23, 2000	Linux Tools for AIX
November 4, 2004	How to Get NFS to Work with Linux
March 23, 2006	New Linux Toolbox for AIX Website
Managing Users
July 16, 1999	Monitoring AIX Users
June 2, 2000	Temporarily Disabling AIX User Logins
March 29, 2003	Creating a ftp-only Account
Networking
November 10, 2001	What's New in TCP/IP
May 22, 2006	Restricting IP Routes by User ID
News
March 19, 2006	New Redbooks, Tools, Webinar's, Tech Tips
June 26, 2006	Recent AIX, Power5 Centric Documents
Performance
December 1998	Explanation Why AIX Memory Typically Runs Near 100% Utilization
January 1999	Using awk to Consolidate iostat Output for Spreadsheet Analysis
January 1999	Improving AIX Memory Utilization on Large Systems
January 1999	AIX 4.2 Update Provides Significant Performance Benefit on SMP
January 1999	Identifying Memory Leaks with the AIX svmon Command
April 1999	Using AIX Web Serving to Display System Performance
June 4, 1999	AIX Performance Diagnostic Tool
October 22, 1999	AIX Bindprocessor Command
March 3, 2000	Creating an AIX Job Queue
July 6, 2000	Diagnosing Performance Bottlenecks
August 6, 2000	New "sar" Flag for Disk Activity
September 22, 2000	Tuning AIX Memory with vmtune
October 26, 2000	Current and Historic RS/6000 Performance
February 8, 2001	RS/6000 And SP Performance Tuning
May 7, 2001	Improving I/O Performance with Raid 0+1
May 13, 2001	Using WLM to Estimate Memory Requirements
June 22, 2001	truss Command
July 15, 2001	AIX 4.3.3 Benchmark Settings for Oracle 8.1 Siebel Server
August 10, 2001	Unoffical Conversion Chart for Numa/RS ROLTP Performance
November 30, 2001	The Effect of AIX Tuning on System Performance
December 8, 2001	DB2 Performance Tuning for AIX
December 21, 2001	Tuning AIX Asynch I/O
March 20, 2002	Estimate of Maximum Network Throughput
March 26, 2002	Using the "mkpasswd" Command to Index /etc/passwd
April 12, 2002	Sizing Disks for I/O Capacity
April 22, 2002	Using "iostat" to Determine IO Rate, Block Size
May 20, 2002	nmon Performance Monitoring Tool
July 7, 2002	AIX Performance Tools from IBM
August 30, 2002	AIX 5 Monitoring and Tuning Redbook
November 16, 2002	Guidelines for Laying Out Filsystems for Maximum Performance
November 25, 2002	Using a Browser to Display System Performance
December 20, 2002	Real Life Lessons for Improving DB2 Performance
February 4, 2003	URL for Industry Standard Benchmarks
February 10, 2004	Relevance of High %iowait in Server Performance
April 5, 2004	Java Installation and Performance
April 13, 2004	AIX 5L Initial Tuning
April 21, 2005	Is I/O Wait a Measure of CPU Utilization or Idle Time?
April 19, 2006	Relevance of High %iowait in Server Performance ..Update
June 5, 2006	New Memory Tuning Option
July 24, 2006	Determining if There Is an I/O Bottleneck in LVM
December 22, 2006	New NMON Consolidator Tool
March 29, 2007	Shell Script to Estimate rPerf Rating of Power Server
June 29, 2007	Using "topas -R" to Record Cross Partition Performance
Porting
November 10, 2000	Porting Solaris to AIX for Performance
January 20, 2001	AIX 4 and HP-UX10 Interoperability
Power5
October 8, 2005	Monitoring Overall CPU Utilization in a Power5 Micropartitioned Server
October 10, 2005	New AIX5.3 ML3 Centralized Performance Monitoring Tool
October 28, 2005	Redundant VIO Server Recovery
November 1, 2005	VIO Server Restrictions for Client Resources
November 4, 2005	Recover Procedure for a Failed VIO Disk
April 12, 2006	Using "dd" to Clone Partitions on a VIO Server
Problem Determination
April 30, 2001	A Simple Problem Determination Tool
June 15, 2003	Problem Identification Methodology
September 20, 2004	IBM Severity Codes
March 24, 2005	E-mail Notification of System Problems
Products
July 29, 2000	System Backup (Sysback)
December 8, 2003	Support Life Cycle for IBM Software
Reality_Check
October 21, 2005	Reality Check - Sun Claims World-Record Benchmarks
Resources
January 1999	iSource for Automatic Notification of IBM Announcements
April 1999	RS/6000 User Guides, Planning Documents Available on the Web
June 18, 1999	IBM AIX Support Web Site
September 10, 1999	AIX Freeware Web Sites
October 1, 1999	RS/6000 Web Resources
October 11, 1999	Frequently Asked AIX Questions
October 14, 1999	Support Line Escalation Procedures
February 25, 2000	IBM alphaWorks
June 7, 2000	RS/6000 Order Status Website
June 16, 2000	Ordering AIX Media Refreshes
June 17, 2000	Where Can I Find a List of 3rd Party AIX Applications?
July 16, 2000	Subscribing to AIX Mailing Lists
August 20, 2000	Designing IBM Storage Area Networks
August 28, 2000	AIX Certification Information
September 14, 2000	RS/6000 Electronic Catalog
November 3, 2000	Designing Web Sites
December 15, 2000	IBM Application Availability Guide for AIX
April 15, 2001	Doug Ranz' Useful RS/pSeries/AIX Web Sites
November 30, 2001	The AIX FixDist to Be Replaced 12/31/2001
December 4, 2001	Email Notification of New Microcode and Fixes
April 7, 2002	AIX Whitepapers
July 13, 2002	Raid Disk Definitions
September 3, 2002	Automatic Notification of AIX Microcode and Maintenance Level Updates
October 8, 2002	New Redbooks, Fall 2002
October 18, 2002	New pSeries/AIX Portal
February 19, 2003	IBM eServer Developer Domain Website Tutorials
March 2, 2003	NMON, KSH93, Websphere, TotalStorage Links
September 27, 2004	Power5 Documentation
January 24, 2005	IBM Visio Stencils
February 21, 2005	Power5 Documentation
March 3, 2005	New Power5 Centric Documentation
May 1, 2005	Electronic Submission of SupportLine Questions
May 12, 2005	New and Updated AIX/Power5 Centric Documentation
November 11, 2005	IBM Tecdocs Technical Sales Website
November 25, 2005	Workload Estimator Tool
December 3, 2005	Electronic Support
December 10, 2006	IBM RSS Feeds
December 12, 2006	AIX Facts and Features
December 19, 2006	Solaris to AIX Migration Redbook
February 27, 2007	AIX Web Portal and Search Engine
March 12, 2007	Recent System p / AIX Documentation
April 20, 2007	Website for Ordering Entitled Software Upgrades
July 16, 2007	AIX, VIO and HMC Facts and Features
Security
December 13, 2001	Unix Login Security Exposure
July 23, 2002	Strengthening AIX Security
September 22, 2003	Anti-Virus Software for AIX
January 13, 2004	eServer Security Planner
June 26, 2004	Disk Scrubbing Tools
August 22, 2005	Installing SSH
August 29, 2005	Potential Spam Relay Issue with Default AIX sendmail Configuration
June 24, 2007	AIX Security Expert
July 6, 2007	Securing the VIO Server Using the "viosecure" Command
Server Consolidation
November 4, 2002	My Guidelines for Combining Applications
September 22, 2007	Sizing Replacement Servers
SpotATrend
March 23, 2006	Spot a Trend, Tell a Friend
Storage
February 1999	AIX SSA Spare Tool for Managing Mirrored Disks
April 7, 2000	SSA Alternative to LVM Mirroring
July 10, 2000	SSA Raid Whitepaper
May 25, 2005	FlashCopy Support on AIX
Updates
January 31, 2006	US Day Savings Time Change in 2007
February 2, 2006	New AIX Maintenance Strategy
Virtualization
June 27, 2005	Disk Mirroring in Power5 Virtual I/O Server
July 5, 2005	How to Set Up the Power5 Virtual I/O Server
August 13, 2005	Sizing Servers Using Advanced Power Virtualization
November 3, 2006	New VIO Best Practices Redbook
April 2, 2007	Workaround for Resizing "rootvg" Disks Located on VIO Server
October 1, 2007	Using NIM to Install VIO Servers
November 9, 2007	Configuring SAN Boot for Virtual AIX Clients Using MPIO
Y2K
April 1999	AIX Fixcheck Tool to Verify Y2K Compliance
May 7, 1999	RS/6000 Y2K Firmware Upgrade Notification
September 20, 1999	Sources of RS/6000 Y2K Compliance Information
December 24, 1999	Y2K Contact List
vi Editor
May 14, 1999	vi Editor Search/Replace
May 28, 1999	vi Editor Cut/Paste
September 17, 1999	Entering Special Characters in vi
September 24, 1999	vi Editor Abbreviation and Map Commands
March 17, 2000	Running AIX Commands in a vi Editor Session
July 3, 2001	Search/Replace in vi at a Specific Column
March 22, 2003	Search and Delete Lines within vi

Bruce Spencer,
baspence@us.ibm.com

12/11/2007