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Operating Systems AIX Automate patch download & deployment Post 302947586 by bakunin on Friday 19th of June 2015 05:28:15 AM

06-19-2015

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Originally Posted by pawpaw

For this case can I assume the NIM+Endpoint acts like a satellite server?

If you define "acts like" losely enough: yes.

Quote:

Originally Posted by pawpaw

Seems like product from lumension (Patch and Remediation) can do similar stuff.

Are there any other products out there? I am tasked to do an evaluation on the various products.

With 30-50 LPARs, like you said above, you should definitely have a NIM-Server anyways. NIM-Servers are not only helpful in software deployment but also for configuration management, installation of new systems, systems backup, system recovery and the like.

The big exception being a heavily firewalled environment: this is where NIM servers really suck, because they need an awful lot of ports and most firewall people are reluctant to tear so many big holes into their firewall. I remember working once in a shop where you couldn't even "ping" the default gateway. One needed to get special permission to even use ping to test the failover node on a cluster. NIM was not used there.

If you do not have such a paranoid environment (and, frankly, i do not wish anybody to undergo such a torture) i strongly suggest to set up a NIM server and make all your LPARs NIM clients. It is quite easy to do, a matter of maybe 3-4 hours, all in all, to set up the basic structures and the resources needed most.

I hope this helps.

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NDB_PRINT_BACKUP_(1)					       MySQL Database System					      NDB_PRINT_BACKUP_(1)

NAME

       ndb_print_backup_file - print NDB backup file contents

SYNOPSIS

       ndb_print_backup_file file_name

DESCRIPTION

       ndb_print_backup_file obtains diagnostic information from a cluster backup file.
	       Usage

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       file_name is the name of a cluster backup file. This can be any of the files (.Data, .ctl, or .log file) found in a cluster backup
       directory. These files are found in the data node's backup directory under the subdirectory BACKUP-#, where # is the sequence number for
       the backup. For more information about cluster backup files and their contents, see Section 17.5.3.1, "MySQL Cluster Backup Concepts".

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       server host or to connect to a management server) ndb_print_backup_file must be run on a cluster data node, since it accesses the data node
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       running, and even when the cluster has been completely shut down.
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MySQL 5.5							    01/30/2014						      NDB_PRINT_BACKUP_(1)