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Operating Systems AIX Determining how long device has been in defined state Post 302766291 by zaxxon on Monday 4th of February 2013 01:44:19 PM
Old 02-04-2013
Afaik something like that is not being logged right out of the box. You could check the ODM, if there is any kind of timestamp somewhere associated with the appropriate interface (have no AIX to check at the moment), but I quite doubt that. I also doubt it is written to the Error Report, but you can try out that very easy. Error Report is bound to a buffer size and it`s entries will be overwritten, if too many messages go in there.

If you have Auditing (Accounting and Auditing on AIX 5L) set up you could be lucky to find some traces of any shell input. If not, you could set this up if things like this are in your interesst.

You could also think about to use something to track config changes like SPM.
There was also an AIX native tool, but I do not remember itīs name. Xray was using it - I will drop him a PM, to help me recall itīs name Smilie

If the user had to use sudo to issue the command, you might be lucky with the sudo logs.

If it was done via smitty, check smitty.log.
 

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DEVICE_GET_STATE(9)					   BSD Kernel Developer's Manual				       DEVICE_GET_STATE(9)

NAME
device_get_state, device_busy, device_unbusy, device_is_alive, device_is_attached -- manipulate device state SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/param.h> #include <sys/bus.h> device_state_t device_get_state(device_t dev); void device_busy(device_t dev); void device_unbusy(device_t dev); int device_is_alive(device_t dev); int device_is_attached(device_t dev); DESCRIPTION
The current state of a device is accessed by calling device_get_state() which returns DS_NOTPRESENT, DS_ALIVE, DS_ATTACHED or DS_BUSY (described in device(9)). To test see if a device was successfully probed, call device_is_alive() which simply returns if the state is greater or equal to DS_ALIVE. To test see if a device was successfully attached, call device_is_attached() which simply returns if the state is greater or equal to DS_ATTACHED. Each device has a busy count which is incremented when device_busy() is called and decremented when device_unbusy() is called. Both routines return an error if the device state is less than DS_ATTACHED. When device_busy() is called on a device in the DS_ATTACHED state, the device changes to the DS_BUSY state. When device_unbusy() is called and after decrementing, the busy count for the device is zero, the device changes to the DS_ATTACHED state. SEE ALSO
device(9) AUTHORS
This manual page was written by Doug Rabson. BSD
June 16, 1998 BSD
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