[mikes]

Greetings,
I have a system that is at 5100-09, it got the -09 through
patches, now my SPOT
on the nim server is at 5100-04, so when I try to restore a mksysb it
complains that they do not match, so how do I patch only the SPOT on a
5.2 system for 5.1 servers.

[steevojb]

Hi There

Have a look at

man nim_update_all

Also detailed in this tutorial

http://www.pseriestech.org/forum/tut...tions-262.html (NIM server and client operations)

HTH

Steve

[mikes]

Actually I think I have done it, (maybe, I am new at AIX) I went smitty .....
manage nim resource ---> update_all. I also rebuilt a spot based on the 5.1 lppsource. The problem is all those boxes started as 51.00-04 and through patching they are now -09, how do I get 5.1 patches on a 5.2 system to go to lppsource.

[mikes]

Just to add to complexity, I am new to this job so I have no idea, what patches made it go to -09, so I need to be able to come up with the required
list also.

[mikes]

it seems to do what I want

nim_update_all -l lppsource_aix51 -s spot_aix_51_830 -d /spdata/sys1/install/fixes/aix
51.fixes.5100-09 -u -B
but in
/var/adm/ras/nim.update
..........

and could not be found on the installation media.

bos.diag.util 5.1.0.51 # Fileset Update
bos.rte.loc 5.1.0.51 # Fileset Update
devices.base.rte 5.1.0.51 # Fileset Update
devices.mca.edd0.com 5.1.0.51 # Fileset Update
devices.pci.14107802.ucode 5.1.0.1 # Fileset Update
devices.rspc.base.rte 5.1.0.51 # Fileset Update
devices.tty.rte 5.1.0.51 # Fileset Update

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It complains about those, I do not THINK I need them is there a Ignore/Force option