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Operating Systems AIX Automatic Server bootup after power outage? Post 302951595 by MichaelFelt on Friday 7th of August 2015 02:36:39 PM
Old 08-07-2015
ASMI is built-in to the firmware. You need to know the address of the service processor.

Are you using an HMC? Yes, or No. If so, the easiest way to find the IP address is to use the HMC to ask for it. If you are not using an HMC, it probably still has a default address - and these may be dependent on the model (I have not worried about default addresses for a long time, so I shall trust someone else will provide a link for the data and/or a table with the defaults).

Since you are talking about auto-start I assume the system is already installed.

What version of AIX and/or Linux (or even IBM i) are you using? Is it bare metal, or are you using VIOS?

---------- Post updated at 08:36 PM ---------- Previous update was at 08:29 PM ----------

And in reply - rather addition to Bakukin.

When the system has gone down on it's own - definitely not wise to try to autostart everything. If it has been a powerfailure - it should be okay to let the VIOS restart (and the option mentioned here is only for restart after a Powerfail) - I do not worry myself much about having the VIOS restart. VIOS is meant to be "black-box" once it is configured. If the reboot fails, no, nada, zero, reasons to allow it continuing the start without an admin to watch it.

Autostart of partitions that depend on a VIOS, basically, fails all the time when the system is managed by an HMC - because the client partition may start in parallel - and be passed it's boot attempts before the VIOS is ready to service it.

In short, IF you are going to use autostart - limit it to VIOS partitions.
 

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svc(8)							      System Manager's Manual							    svc(8)

NAME

       svc - controls services monitored by supervise(8).

SYNOPSIS

       svc [ -udopchaitkx ] services

DESCRIPTION

       services consists of any number of arguments, each argument naming a directory used by supervise(8).

       svc applies all the options to each service in turn.

OPTIONS

       -u     Up. If the service is not running, start it. If the service stops, restart it.

       -d     Down. If the service is running, send it a TERM signal and then a CONT signal. After it stops, do not restart it.

       -o     Once. If the service is not running, start it. Do not restart it if it stops.

       -p     Pause. Send the service a STOP signal.

       -c     Continue. Send the service a CONT signal.

       -h     Hangup. Send the service a HUP signal.

       -a     Alarm. Send the service an ALRM signal.

       -i     Interrupt. Send the service an INT signal.

       -t     Terminate. Send the service a TERM signal.

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