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by **Charles Rinehar** » Sat, 15 Dec 2001 07:18:52

Would some kind sole explain what is meant maintenance level 09?
And what the separate dot separated fields returned by the oslevel
command mean?

by **Marci Fry** » Sun, 16 Dec 2001 05:13:41

Quote:> Would some kind sole explain what is meant maintenance level 09?
> And what the separate dot separated fields returned by the oslevel
> command mean?

When you run an oslevel command the returned value you get is the level of
the operating system. If you want to see what maintenance level of the
operating system you are at, run "oslevel -r". The two digits after the "-"
will indicate the maintenance level. So if you report back 4330-09 you are
running aix 4.3.3 at maintenance level 9. With just the oslevel command you
would report back 4.3.3.0 which shows you you are running aix 4.3.3.

Maintenance levels come out to fix known problems with the OS.

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by **Christoph Rim** » Fri, 28 Dec 2001 04:03:00

>> Would some kind sole explain what is meant maintenance level 09?
>> And what the separate dot separated fields returned by the oslevel
>> command mean?
> When you run an oslevel command the returned value you get is the
> level of the operating system. If you want to see what maintenance
> level of the operating system you are at, run "oslevel -r". The two
> digits after the "-" will indicate the maintenance level. So if you
> report back 4330-09 you are running aix 4.3.3 at maintenance level 9.
> With just the oslevel command you would report back 4.3.3.0 which
> shows you you are running aix 4.3.3.

> Maintenance levels come out to fix known problems with the OS.

Yes, maitenance level is kind of SUN's Recommended Patch Clusters, that
is, a collection of rather up-to-date fileset fixes. Mainteance packages
are cumulative, so download the most recent one for your OS version and
install it.
A complete maintenance package for 4.3.3 is about 220 MBytes, as it
contains lots of filesets you will not need, due to different hardware
(have MCA or PCI) or because you do not have the base filesets installed.
On the other hand, it is much easier to install the Maintenace package and
simply ignore the "cannot install..." messages than finding all the last
filesets and installing them individually.

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by **chao_pin** » Fri, 28 Dec 2001 21:16:14

Then what is the newest maintenance Level of aix 4.3.3? My machine is in
mainence level 9, is it the newest?

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by **Wladimir Mute** » Fri, 28 Dec 2001 22:12:09

> Then what is the newest maintenance Level of aix 4.3.3? My machine is in
> mainence level 9, is it the newest?

Now the latest is 9. However there were some post-fixes for separate
packages.

by **Inde** » Sat, 29 Dec 2001 20:23:03

hi,
Can you please forward me a Readme of AIX 433 ML9 ?
Can you please tell me from where to get this ML 9 ?

Thankx and Regards
Inder

Quote:> Then what is the newest maintenance Level of aix 4.3.3? My machine is in
> mainence level 9, is it the newest?

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by **chao_pin** » Sun, 30 Dec 2001 00:19:16

Sorry, we buy machine from IBM, and it is still in service period, and
IBM forward the 2 CD to us. If you contact IBM , i think u can get the
two cdrom.

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by **Gitte T?gerse** » Thu, 03 Jan 2002 21:21:41

Try to look at this site:

http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/rs6k/ml.fixes.html

Regards

Gitte T?gersen

> hi,
> Can you please forward me a Readme of AIX 433 ML9 ?
> Can you please tell me from where to get this ML 9 ?

> Thankx and Regards
> Inder

> > Then what is the newest maintenance Level of aix 4.3.3? My machine is in
> > mainence level 9, is it the newest?

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> > an oracle beginner

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by **Christian Prue** » Wed, 09 Jan 2002 05:36:28

Marci:

Another handy command to run is `instfix -i | grep ML`. This will
tell you what maintenance levels you have installed on the system and
if you are missing any filesets from any previous maintenance levels.
Here's some sample output:

All filesets for 4330-06_AIX_ML were found.
Not all filesets for 4330-07_AIX_ML were found.
All filesets for 4330-08_AIX_ML were found.

--Christian

> > Would some kind sole explain what is meant maintenance level 09?
> > And what the separate dot separated fields returned by the oslevel
> > command mean?

> When you run an oslevel command the returned value you get is the level of
> the operating system. If you want to see what maintenance level of the
> operating system you are at, run "oslevel -r". The two digits after the "-"
> will indicate the maintenance level. So if you report back 4330-09 you are
> running aix 4.3.3 at maintenance level 9. With just the oslevel command you
> would report back 4.3.3.0 which shows you you are running aix 4.3.3.

> Maintenance levels come out to fix known problems with the OS.

by **Bubb** » Thu, 10 Jan 2002 01:43:18

Agreed.

In addition to this command, you can run:
instfix -ciqk [the ML] | grep ":-:"

example: instfix -ciqk 4330-07_AIX_ML | grep ":-:"

This will check to see what is missing from ML 7 in Christian's example.

- Don

> Marci:

> Another handy command to run is `instfix -i | grep ML`. This will
> tell you what maintenance levels you have installed on the system and
> if you are missing any filesets from any previous maintenance levels.
> Here's some sample output:

> All filesets for 4330-06_AIX_ML were found.
> Not all filesets for 4330-07_AIX_ML were found.
> All filesets for 4330-08_AIX_ML were found.

> --Christian

> > > Would some kind sole explain what is meant maintenance level 09?
> > > And what the separate dot separated fields returned by the oslevel
> > > command mean?

> > When you run an oslevel command the returned value you get is the level
of
> > the operating system. If you want to see what maintenance level of the
> > operating system you are at, run "oslevel -r". The two digits after the
"-"
> > will indicate the maintenance level. So if you report back 4330-09 you
are
> > running aix 4.3.3 at maintenance level 9. With just the oslevel command
you
> > would report back 4.3.3.0 which shows you you are running aix 4.3.3.

> > Maintenance levels come out to fix known problems with the OS.