[Littleguru]

I have copied all 8 AIX 5.3 CDs to our NIM servers but I get following error at the time of lpp_source initialization.

nim -o define -t lpp_source -a server=master -a location=/nim/lpp_source/5300-09-03-0918-lpp lpp53TL9all

Preparing to copy install images (this will take several minutes)...
Now checking for missing install images...
warning: 0042-267 c_mk_lpp_source: The defined lpp_source does not have the
"simages" attribute because one or more of the following
packages are missing:
bos.wpars
bos.aixpert.cmds
bos.mls
NIM Server is AIX 6.1 and for some reason nim server is looking for bos.wpars which is part of AIX 6.1 and not AIX 5.3
any idea that might help to find the reason ?
can I download bos.wpars packages for AIX 5.3 ?
is there any way to modify or restructure NIM server for package list lookup on lpp_source ?
I was going to copy the missing file sets from AIX 6.1 CDs to AIX 5.3 lpp_source and re-initialize the lpp resource again, but that is not a good idea and I want to know why I get this error.
Thanks

[silvia]

Hi,

for good NIM behavior, the lppsource needs to have specific AIX minimum packages that give the simages attribute:

bos
bos.64
bos.up
bos.mp
bos.net
bos.diag
bos.sysmgt
bos.terminfo
bos.terminfo.data
devices.base
devices.buc
devices.common
devices.graphics
devices.mca
devices.rs6ksmp.base
devices.scsi
devices.sio
devices.sys
devices.tty
xlC.rte
and the latest APARs of this packages

If you put all AIX CDs, it is possible that you get failures
because some .bffs are APARs with duplicates and some others don't have all pre-requisites.
Define lppsource from AIX 5.3 source=/dev/cd0 and then add the others AIX packages you need to it. Finally do the lppmgr operation to eliminate unnecessary software images.

Regards.
Silvia.