Ok so I gave up on NIM altogether due to network restrictions and decided just to go the manual mksysb route, but now I'm having issues with that as well.
I did an mksysb of a machine and hoped to test restoring it to another. I installed a base os on the test machine, did a "restore from image file" through smit, mounted the image via nfs, and smit just hangs saying "running command....". I let it go the whole weekend and still nothing.
I've also tried copying the sysb image locally, and still smit hangs at "running command".
I'm really starting to get frustrated - I just want to be able to restore an image
What am I doing wrong???
EDIT: Nevermind. This is why you need to take sanity breaks
I was typing in the nfs path rather than the local path.