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 2 combined_invscout.sh
#!/usr/bin/ksh
# Directories
GLOBAL=/usr/global/invscout
# Exe's
INVSCOUT=/usr/sbin/invscout
CURL=/usr/global/pkgs/curl-7.14.0/bin/curl
PARSH=/usr/local/sysadmin/parsh
# Misc
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POWER=power5
# Run on all nodes
$PARSH "$INVSCOUT -q -catl $GLOBAL/catalog.mic"
$PARSH "cp /var/adm/invscout/\`hostname|cut -f1 -d.\`.mup \
/usr/global/invscout/$POWER"
# Create a final combined file for upload
rm -f $GLOBAL/$POWER/$POWER.mup
cat $GLOBAL/$POWER/*.mup > $GLOBAL/$POWER/$POWER.mup
# This uploads the MUP to IBM and saves to resulting HTML file
$CURL -s -2 -F mdsData=@$GLOBAL/$POWER/$POWER.mup -F sendfile="Upload file" -o $GLOBAL/$POWER.html \
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/mds/mds
# Email results
print "\n$POWER Curl result is $?" | mail -s "Invscout Results" $EMAIL
exit 0
