Q&A

How do I start a RMC daemon?

How do I start a RMC daemon?

The daemons start automatically when the operating system starts and synchronize with the HMC RMC daemons. Note: Apart from rebooting, there is no way to stop and start the RMC daemons on the HMC! (RSCT authentication is used to ensure the HMC is communicating with the correct LPAR.)

How to check RMC connection in AIX?

To determine whether duplicate Node IDs exist, consider the following options:

  1. For partitions with active RMC connections: From the HMC, as root user, run the /opt/rsct/bin/rmcdomainstatus -s ctrmc command and identify any duplicate entries.
  2. On partitions without an active RMC connection:

What is RMC connection in AIX?

Remote Management and Control (RMC) is a suite of applications built into AIX and available for some Enterprise Linux offerings that required a fixed IP configuration and secure communications using both TCP and UDP protocols between all hosts in the RMC peer domain.

What is RMC network?

The Resource Monitoring and Control (RMC) subsystem is a generalized framework for managing, monitoring, and manipulating resources (physical or logical system entities). RMC runs as a daemon process on individual machines.

Why do I need RMC daemon in Aix?

RMC is a distributed framework and architecture that allows the HMC to communicate with a managed logical partition. RMC daemons should be running on AIX partition in order to be able to do DLPAR operations on HMC. For example “Dynamic LPAR Resource Manager” is an RMC daemon that runs inside the AIX (and VIO server).

Is there a way to stop and start RMC daemons?

Note: Apart from rebooting, there is no way to stop and start the RMC daemons on the HMC! (RSCT authentication is used to ensure the HMC is communicating with the correct LPAR.) Authentication is the process of ensuring that another party is who it claims to be.

Do you need to restart Cron in AIX 7.1?

As long as your script uses crontab to add and delete job specifications for the user, there would be no need to restart the cron daemon. The AIX 7.1 cron manual page says: When you make changes to the crontab files using the crontab command, a message indicating the change is sent to the cron daemon.

How to stop the automount daemon in Aix?

The ‘startsrc -s automountd’ command will start automountd but it will not read the auto* maps or create the autofs mount points. However, it is recommended to use ‘stopsrc -s automountd’ to stop the automountd daemon.