AIX

How do I change the attributes in what lsnim lists using nim (without smit) to either clear them, remove them or modify them?

Code:

nim -o change -a attribute_name=some_value host01

doesn't always work. Are there variations to change different attribute types as well?

Cheers,
DH

To answer your question "yes". Aside from the man page, you can always go into smitty nim panel and hit the command button to see the actual command being executed. You can also consult the smit.log file as well.

Did go through man and smitty (too many options, would be there forever. I know about the F6 option though thank you.) earlier but commands just errored out. Did manage to figure it out through some trial and error.

Code:

nim -o change -a attribute_name=value host01

Cheers,
DH

Hmm. For the change of the allocation status of NIM objects there is the "-F" (force) option, which, in my experience, is recommended to be used always because deallocation sometimes fails.

What exactly the difference is between using the -F option and not doing so eludes me, though, because both are just operations inside the NIM database, which i believe to be some sort of ODM. How exactly it is organized i never bothered to find out, though. But maybe someone else can shed some light on that.

I hope this helps.

bakunin