AIX Tools: SUMA and Inventory Scout
By Paul Guglielmino, January 25, 2007
Guglielmino describes two helpful AIX tools: the Service Update Management Assistant, which aids in downloading fixes as they become available, and Inventory Scout, which reports on firmware that needs updating.
Listing 1 dl_mcatalog.sh
#!/usr/bin/ksh
CURL=/usr/global/pkgs/curl-7.14.0/bin/curl
DLDIR=/nim/suma/invscout
DATEEXT=`date +%m%d%Y` # Format: MMDDYYYY
FILEBASE=catalog.mic
URL=https://techsupport.services.ibm.com/server/mdownload/catalog.mic
OLDFILE=`/usr/bin/ls -1tr $DLDIR/$FILEBASE* | tail -1`
$CURL -s -o $DLDIR/$FILEBASE.$DATEEXT $URL
diff $DLDIR/$FILEBASE.$DATEEXT $OLDFILE > /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
# This file is the same, stick with the old one
rm $DLDIR/$FILEBASE.$DATEEXT
else
# This file is new, copy to the shared location for invscout
cp $DLDIR/$FILEBASE.$DATEEXT /usr/global/invscout/$FILEBASE
fi
find $DLDIR -mtime +180 -exec rm {} \;
