Sunday, December 11, 2011

System Dump commands in AIX


sysdumpdev -l           To list the current dump destination

sysdumpdev -L          List the details of the previous dump

sysdumpstart -p        Starts dump in the primary dump device

sysdumpstart -s        Starts dump in the secondary dump device

sysdumpdev -p /dev/lv00       To make lv00 as primary dump device tempararly

sysdumpdev -P -p /dev/lv00   To make lv00 as primary dump device permanently

sysdumpdev -s /dev/rmt0
      To make rmt0 as secondary dump device

sysdumpdev -z                      To determine a new system dump occurred