IBM AIX maintenance

[A_L_E_X]

Is there any maintenance procedure for IBM AIX 4.3.3 that i should do regularly ? Something like disk defragmenter or scandisk in Windows. On this computer is runing Brisque RIP 4.1.

 

[esmith214]

No, Unix machines don't need that kind of maintenance. Just keep an eye on the available disk space. Log files can clog the root drive. When the drive reaches 90%, only root can log in, nothing else runs.

 

[A_L_E_X]

The /usr DataVolume is 87% occupied. Is it bad ?

 

[mattbeals]

Yeah, that's not good. You may want to set up some sort of volume for the Brisque to move jobs to. I used an Xserve and setup a NFS share on that, then used the Brisque to mount it so I could move the jobs off. Worked very well.

In SMIT (doubt that it's in SCISMIT) deep down there is a defrag routine that you can run on the various mounts.

 

[A_L_E_X]

There is a separate volume for Brisque where jobs are stored.
Can you tell me what to delete from the /usr ? There are some temporary files that i could delete ?
Can you tell me exactly where is that defragmentation routine ?

 

[mattbeals]

No, I know it's in SMIT though. It's been four years or so since I last saw in the innards of a Brisque.