AIX 7.1 TL update -> only latest or one by one?

iso · January 17, 2013, 5:43am

Hi,

I'm about to update a 7.1 box from 7100-00-03-1115 to the latest level 7100-02-01-1245. Question: do I have to install all steps between them or can I just download the latest level and do a update_all?

thecobra151 · January 17, 2013, 6:07am

Dear

the safe way is to upgrade the TL from level to level , to avoid TL upgrade tp be failed

TL = is a lot of SPs

iso · January 17, 2013, 6:10am

That's a long way to go. Thanks

thecobra151 · January 17, 2013, 6:25am

you need inly TL1 and TL2 thats all

iso · January 17, 2013, 6:33am

Right, the others are SP's. Thanks, man.

MichaelFelt · January 17, 2013, 2:28pm

Personally, I go for all in one go - smitty update_all and run with preview activated to check for errors or other warnings.

bakunin · January 17, 2013, 4:47pm

Same here. In the overwhelming majority of cases this is safe, historically there were only a few TL/MLs that had problems.

I remember 5.3 ML8 (or ML9? not sure) having a problem if updating from ML3 - one had to update to ML7 first and then to do a second update to ML8. Similar from 4.1.1 to 4.1.4 IIRC. All other combinations i had to work with were without problems.

I hope this helps.

bakunin

iso · January 18, 2013, 4:35am

That does help, thanks to you all. I'll try a direct upgrade to TL2 without the following SP's. Maybe an alt_clone, if the storage admin manages to provide a disk...

MichaelFelt · January 22, 2013, 2:59pm

If they wont provide a new disk read up on MULTIBOS

AIX 6.1 Infocenter: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/aix/v6r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.aix.cmds%2Fdoc%2Faixcmds3%2Fmultibos.htm

AIX 7.1 Infocenter: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/aix/v7r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.aix.cmds%2Fdoc%2Faixcmds3%2Fmultibos.htm