IBM AIX 003 - SMIT (System Management Interface Tool)
We all know that AIX is a UNIX based OS. What does that mean to system administrator?
1: There are huge number of commands to remember or to be looked at.
2: Secondly, each and every one has different syntax's most of the time.
Which means AIX system admins needs to be very careful on all the commands and their syntax's which they execute as the admin all the time. This is pretty much time consuming and error prone as well. So SMIT is the solution provided by IBM.
If you are going to administrate AIX environment, SMIT will be your buddy to be with.
When it comes to AIX administration, IBM provides very flexible on selecting the way you want to do it. Mainly there are 3 type of commands in AIX.
So where is SMIT ? SMIT is actually an interactive application sits on top of high level commands. Beauty of SMIT is it facilitate each and every aspect of AIX System Administration for A to Z.
SMIT comes with AIX out of the box so you don't have to do anything to get SMIT into your AIX environment. Go to the AIX terminal and type "smit". Yeah simple as that.
type "smit date" and check what are the options available to use. You can use up/down arrow keys to move the cursor.
What it basically does is, it maps the high level AIX commands to human understandable text based lines. As an example lets say you want to create AIX user. When you do it using SMIT, It will guide you though SMITs menus, get all the inputs from you (you have to keyin name etc. in the process) and using the inputs given, SMIT will execute the particular AIX command to create a user with user inputs as parameters based on the command syntax.
As told you earlier, SMIT will help you will help you with all of your system administration work. type "smit" and go to the smit menu and discover what are the options and capabilities it has.
Cheers ✌️
If you are going to administrate AIX environment, SMIT will be your buddy to be with.
When it comes to AIX administration, IBM provides very flexible on selecting the way you want to do it. Mainly there are 3 type of commands in AIX.
High Level Commands:
Standard AIX commands which most of the users use.Intermediate Commands & Law level Commands:
Rarely( or may be never) used commands and system calls which are directly interface with specific system components like Object Data Manager and kernel services.So where is SMIT ? SMIT is actually an interactive application sits on top of high level commands. Beauty of SMIT is it facilitate each and every aspect of AIX System Administration for A to Z.
SMIT comes with AIX out of the box so you don't have to do anything to get SMIT into your AIX environment. Go to the AIX terminal and type "smit". Yeah simple as that.
type "smit date" and check what are the options available to use. You can use up/down arrow keys to move the cursor.
How SMIT works ?
SMIT does not use any special tricks to do things.What it basically does is, it maps the high level AIX commands to human understandable text based lines. As an example lets say you want to create AIX user. When you do it using SMIT, It will guide you though SMITs menus, get all the inputs from you (you have to keyin name etc. in the process) and using the inputs given, SMIT will execute the particular AIX command to create a user with user inputs as parameters based on the command syntax.
As told you earlier, SMIT will help you will help you with all of your system administration work. type "smit" and go to the smit menu and discover what are the options and capabilities it has.
Cheers ✌️
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