Ok, I'm an admin (assistant, helper, enabler) in a software test lab. I don't do the testing, but I help set things up for people who do. I'm experienced in Windows and various virtualization techniques, but not so much in Linux or Unix. I've been able to muddle through some things with Unix, and learn a lot about things to do in Linux. I have good enough logical reasoning skills that I was able to figure out how to reinstall the OS on several AIX and HP/UX machines.
Somehow, while figuring out how to reinstall AIX, I became the lab's AIX "guru" to many people. I don't know how this happened. Apparently, being able to figure out how to reinstall the OS made me the most knowledgable person on AIX in the lab. Sad situation, I know.
Now, my boss is asking me to install certain patch levels on a couple of our AIX machines for certain tests. I did the initial installs on these machines, and they're at 6.1.1.0, but we need to test on 6.1.5 and 6.1.5.7 for a specific customer situation. Apparently, we aren't seeing a problem with 6.1.1.0, but it could be related to later patches IBM issued.
The problem comes with the fact that I have no clue how to update AIX at all. I've taken a look through smitty, and I can't even find where patches or updates can even be found. I can't find any sort of patches on IBM's site, probably because of how badly they restrict info on AIX.
Can anyone help?