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Operating Systems AIX Creating NIM SPOT using an existing mksysb from cliet Post 302875471 by bakunin on Tuesday 19th of November 2013 03:10:48 PM

11-19-2013

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Originally Posted by System Admin 77

i backed up a test LPAR using mksyb utility on AIX. and transferred it to NIM server via NFS.

ibmtech has already posted an excellent how-to, but i'd like to ask a question: why do you do the above?

At the NIM-master, issue "smitty nim", select "NIM Administration Tasks" from the menu, then start creating the mksysb from the NIM-master. This way you end up automatically with the mksysb being a NIM-resource. You don't need to pull it into the resource database like shown and neither do you need to transfer it to the NIM-master server. All this is done during the process.

I hope this helps.

bakunin

/PS: the warning means you got the NIM servers NFS somewhat confused. It is usually a very bad idea to NFS-export parts or super-parts of NIMs resources. Leave these alone and export other directories if you have to. NIM is famous for failing without a real understandable reason if you tinker with "/etc/exportfs".

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SHOWMOUNT(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					      SHOWMOUNT(8)

NAME

     showmount -- show remote NFS mounts on host

SYNOPSIS

     showmount [-Ae36] [-a | -d] [host]

DESCRIPTION

     showmount shows status information about the NFS server on host.  By default it prints the names of all hosts that have NFS file systems
     mounted on the host. See NFS: Network File System Protocol Specification, RFC 1094, Appendix A, and NFS: Network File System Version 3
     Protocol Specification, Appendix I, for a detailed description of the protocol.

     -A      Search for NFS servers advertised via Bonjour.

     -a      List all mount points in the form: host:dirpath

     -d      List directory paths of mount points instead of hosts.

     -e      Show the host's exports list.

     -3      Use mount protocol Version 3, compatible with NFS Version 3.

     -6      Use only IPv6 addresses to contact servers.

SEE ALSO

     mount(1), mountd(8), nfsd(8), mDNSResponder(8)

BUGS

     The mount daemon running on the server only has an idea of the actual mounts, since the NFS server is stateless.  showmount will only display
     the information as accurately as the mount daemon reports it.

HISTORY

     The showmount utility first appeared in 4.4BSD.

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