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# 8  
Old 11-15-2010
OH! If I can build a SPOT from a mksysb, I'm happy. I can just upgrade the first AIX server, take a mksysb to the NIM server, create a SPOT, and I'm ready to upgrade all the other AIX servers. I'll investigate that option.

Is that what other people are doing in this situation, I wonder?
# 9  
Old 11-15-2010
Hey TGP,

I would actually create a mksysb first, then perform the upgrade then if things were to go wrong.

If you need to roll back, you can create a spot and start a recovery from the mksysb.

Have a good one.
# 10  
Old 11-15-2010
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If you update your LPP_SOURCE and need to boot a server that has not been updated, you will not be able to boot. The levels of the filesets must match exactly (from my experience).
This would surprise me ... I never had issues booting my boxes into maintenance from much newer TLs - as long as I stayed within the same OS (5.3 or 6.1 or whatever). The docu says as well - same or newer ?

Regards
zxmaus
# 11  
Old 11-16-2010
If I remember right, the situation that good me into trouble was:
I patched my node; I did not make a new LPP Source or SPOT; then I needed to boot the node from the NIM master - and it failed.

I should clarify what I said then - I ran into trouble when the NIM Master was down level from the nodes.
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