Ibm Aix Versions
IBM announces the End of Service Pack Support (EoSPS) for each Service Pack, after which fixes will no longer be made available for that level of AIX: Display the version and maintenance level Use the oslevel command to display the AIX version, release, Technology Level (TL), Service Pack (SP) and build date. IBM AIX Version 7.1 Differences Guide December 2010 International Technical Support Organization SG24-7910-00.
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You are correct in the fact that oslevel will give you the current installed version, but that is not always enough information particularily if you are asked the question by support personnel.
# oslevel <--- this will only give you the Base Level
To be more precise you should use the following command which will give you additional Technology Level, Maintenance Level and Service Pack level information.
This will give you
- '5300' - Base Level
- '09' - Technology Level
- '02' - Maintenance Level
- '0849' - Service Pack
On some older versions of AIX the -s option is not available in whichh cas you should use the -r option which will report as far as the Technology level
I hope this helps
Mike Scheerer
I just added this to my ~/.profile, so I immediately see the AIX version on login:
Example output:
nb: This function is compatible with both KSH and BASH, so you can put in ~/.bashrc instead if you are a BASH fan.
nb2: The last 4 digits from oslevel are the year and week the SP was released. I don't particularly care to see that, so I left it out. I was happy enough with Version/TL/SP.
EDIT 2018-02-22: I just came up with an equivalent but shorter implementation, and no longer depends on bc and uses awk instead of cut & bc.
As a one-liner:
Output: Install kali linux on windows.
As a shell function:
Output:
You can use the following command:
It will show result like below.
Which translates to:
os version 6.1
TL level 9
service pack 9
release date (year and week)
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Hi Guys, this is maybe a dumb question, right now I have a couple of machines, both with dual VIOs, and on every machine I have 10 client LPARs. The versions are like this: VIOs are 1.5.2.5-FP-11.1 SP-01 and AIX version 5300-08-01-0819; the client LPARs are AIX version 5300-05-00.
I'm planning on upgrading my client LPARs to also TL08, same version as in the VIOs, but here is where I have the question: Is the VIO level and/or the AIX level (in the VIO) a limiting factor for the levels to be installed on the client LPARs?? What I mean is, I can upgrade my LPARs to TL08, but can I upgrade them to TL10 having the above versions on my VIOs? My feeling was that the limit was in my case only up to AIX 5.3 TL08, but now I'm thinking that may be it doesn't matter. Any ideas around this scenario?, any help will be appreciated - THANKS !