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Thanks much for the response and work around related to that particular file set.
as per IBM, we can safely ignore this message. (since 7.1 tl 03 sp 7 not yet out)

Please mark this as SOLVED....

Hello,

I was trying to upgrade TL on a lab server (test box). I did worked on (few) these type of SP and TL updates in the recent past. I saw the below message for the first time on server.
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I got some idea and will make sure that all the necessary filesets/packges are up-to-date (if the app/middleware uses OS java/ssl etc). And will work with middelware/app team. Thanks bakunin, dukessd...

Thanks for the response Aia. If I understood correctly, As a AIX system admin we should not change anything on OS. Application/Middleware engineer supposed to work on this task (disabling these...

Hi,

We've a requirement to disable the protocols SSLv3, SSL v2 and TLS 1.0.

And have TLS 1.2 enabled using AEAD (Authentication Encryption with Associated Data).


This is the only...

Hello,

I was trying to find information about below rpcbind issue and how can I fix it so that, it wont happen again.

Below is the one of the vulnerability from my security team,

RPC...

Hello,

We're working on securing the AIX environment. started with disabling unused services on AIX.

Below are the entries which are not commented on my test LPAR (even other LPARs).

ntalk ...

never mind, everything is working as expected. thanks again.

Thanks for the response DiViN3. SNMP issue resolved.

SNMP activated on boot because of below entry in inittab file.

platform_agent:2:once:/usr/bin/startsrc -s platform_agent >/dev/null 2>&1

...

Just wanted to check this,

I disabled SNMP related daemons on test AIX LPARs.

on /etc/rc.tcpip file;

# Start up the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) daemon
#start /usr/sbin/snmpd...

Thank you, this helps :)

Thanks Agent.kgb

As I mentioned earlier, ours is a small shop. AIX is not a primary/core OS in our environment.We do not have POWERHA/HACMP and We do not have any monitoring tool for AIX. Instead...

Hi,

I am planning to disable SNMP in our AIX LPARs. wanted to see by disabling in a test LPAR.
before that, I would like to check disabling this SNMP will impact any of our application or...

Hello,

I think in your case, some filesets are missing. try running the command lppchk to see if there is any fileset needed. I do not know whther they are optional driver filesets. anyway, please...

Thank you agent.kgb & Bakunin.

As you've mentioned,
we've already set "rlogin=false" & "login=true" for the root account! I understand that, root cannot log on from the network (ssh/telnet/etc)...

@Vbe

Thanks for the reply. here " user " am referring it to as a system admin who knows the root password.
and has the capabilities to do su - root using their USER ID's. root password is not...

Thanks for the reply vbe.

echo $DISPLAY

did not write anything. But, if you directly login using root. It automatically set DISPLAY to

localhost:12.0


I did tried after setting up...

disabled the direct root login on all the AIX LPARs. So' only can become root by "su" to root from normal/regular user account.

Issue is, I cannot open xwindows (xterm or xming) from my LPAR as a...

Thanks for the reply MadeInGermany. I like your idea, will give a try. Thank you.

Thanks for the reply and help Robin and i like the way you've analyzed my question, which gave me good understanding. sorry, i should have give more details.

My question was
How can we make...

yes Don, those emails were received by desired recipients. one more last question for now, can I just disable send mail daemon on AIX servers ?
i mean, if we can not use AIX LPAR as mail server. I...

Hi,

I understand that, we can use SSH/SSL for encrypted/secure sessions. my question is " can we secure telnet on AIX " ?

usually, we disable network services like ftp, telnet etc.
and replace...

Thanks for the reply Don.

coming to my 2nd question
Yeah you're correct. I stopped the sendmail, should not see any error messages related to mail.

but i did not know why got that error...

Hi,

I did setup sendmail on one of AIX LPARs. Its working as expected. But, would like to clarify something with you all.

I stopped the sendmail daemon on AIX LPAR, now it is...