UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I've been more used to Solaris, but am now working on an IBM AIX box, P650

Certain commands like "top" are no longer available. Any ideas on where I can find help on this matter?

Christopher Freville
Alberquerque, NM

this should help you:
ROSETTA STONE

greetings PRESSY

AIX is one of many flavors of unix. It is generally quite stable and easier to perform day to day administration tasks since it has a menu system (smit/smitty)from which you can perform nearly all tasks from. This menu system also allows you to see the commands generated by your choices, so you're not a slave to the interface. It seems to perform memory management better than other UNIX OS'esfrom what I've seen. In AIX, commands have a stronger naming convention than in other OS'es For example: mksysb makes a system backup, mkitab makes an inittab entry, mkdir makes a directory, lsvg lists volume group info, lspv lists physical volume info, etc, etc. So AIX is a Unix operating system, as is Sun Solaris, HP/UX, and others

actuaaly i need the major differences between solaris and Aix? solaris and aix flavour of unix i knew but i need major differences i need.

OK you dont have top, but you have nmon...
And IBM brought out just the book for you:
AIX Reference for Sun Solaris Administrators
Go and see the pdf at ibm.com/redbooks

Not exactly on topic but Solaris native command is prstat, not top.
top is originally from BSD, was rewritten for Gnu/Linux then enhanced to support various OSes including Solaris. AIX closest variant is named "topas" which includes "nmon".

check out IBM Redbooks | Sun Solaris to IBM AIX 5L Migration: A Guide for System Administrators

topas is simliar to top though not as nice. nmon would be the way to go if you can install it.