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I suppose its too much to hope they put something which uses a physical terminal device into /etc/inittab.

A few other ideas:

- there is only a limited number of ttys. Try the fuser command on all of them to find out which process(es) is(are) using it. The examine the found processes.

- if you feel...

Some starting ideas:
- process table with ps -ef and check entries using a tty
- lslpp -h to find out if there is a package installed at some given date

If you run PuTTY (a terminal emulator free download) from the console and connect it to /dev/tty?? (without the application running which grabs that port) you should be able to see traffic arriving...

I am not sure what you mean by "unavailable": every device in AIX is basically in one of two states (if present at all): do a lsdev -C and you should see a list of devices some of which are in state...

Welcome trevian3969,

Does the software write to tty00 or to /dev/console? You can redirect the system console through the smit menus to tty02, but sadly I don't have a server available to walk...

If your server has onlyy one disk it must have only one VG - "rootvg". You should see both disks as (perhaps) "hdisk0" and "hdisk1" when you enter:

lspv

If you don't see the second disk: run...