AIX Cheatsheet

Submitted by packetmad on 26 September, 2006 - 10:05

topas	top equivalent
errclear 0	clears errpt
errpt -a	shows errors
extendvg	Adds 1 or more hdisks to an existing VG
refresh -s inetd	re-reads inetd.conf
dlnkmgr view	Reports status of SAN connection (Hitachi)
dlnkmgr view -sys	Shows info on SAN subsystem
dlnkmgr set -lb off	sets load balancing off
dlnkmgr set -afb off	sets automatic failback off
lsvpcfg	Reports status on SAN connection (Shark)
qcan -X -P	Cancels all print jobs
lp -dQUEUENAME filename	send file to printer
snap -gc	places a snap.pax.Z file in /tmp for IBM engineers to look at
datapath query device	reports info on shark disk
dsmc q sched	check TSM scheduler
prtconf	system configuration
oslevel -r	OS and ML level
netstat -v	NIC statistics
lsps -a	check usage of the swapfile
lsattr -El sys0	list attributes of sys0
lsvg -l	list volume groups
df -k	shows what lv a fs lives in
lslv -l	list info on volume
lspv	shows disks in volume group
chfs -a size=+131072 /filesystem	extend 'filesystem' by 128MB
history -1000 \| grep whatever	command history search
du -sk ./*	get usage stats
lpstat	status of print queues
qconfig	printer configuration
lprm -Pprinter_queue 676	Remove print job 676 from printer_queue
lscfg \| grep fcs	get fibercard info
lscfg -vl fcsx	list stats for card fcsx
lscfg \| grep U1.9-P1-I7/Q1	1st step to find port
lscfg -vl hdisk135	get port number
lscfg -vl fcs0	Get WWN for SAN request
fuser -cuxd	who is using what