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2012:06:19:hmc_update_to_7.7.5.0 [2012/06/19 20:29] – created Frank Fegert2012:06:19:hmc_update_to_7.7.5.0 [2012/07/26 18:59] (current) – Frank Fegert
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 Next up was the backup of the managed system profile and HMC upgrade data, which could only be saved locally or on a removeable media (DVD or USB). Again, network (NFS, SCP, FTP, etc.) anyone? Next up was the backup of the managed system profile and HMC upgrade data, which could only be saved locally or on a removeable media (DVD or USB). Again, network (NFS, SCP, FTP, etc.) anyone?
  
-The update itself went find, except for the usual error output on the KVM console which make you wonder if anyone is ever going to fix the messages that have been popping up there for ages. Apparently it is a considerable challenge to check for the existence of a symlink before trying to create one!+The update itself went fine, except for the usual error output on the KVM console which make you wonder if anyone is ever going to fix the messages that have been popping up there for ages. Apparently it is a considerable challenge to check for the existence of a symlink before trying to create one!
  
 The first things i noticed after the update were that now the "OS Version" column actually displays the ioslevel instead of the oslevel for VIOS partitions (**nice!**), and that our Nagios monitoring wasn't working anymore for the HMC CPU check (**WTF?**). Manually checking on the HMC CLI showed this: <code>hscroot@hmc:~> monhmc -n 0 -r proc The first things i noticed after the update were that now the "OS Version" column actually displays the ioslevel instead of the oslevel for VIOS partitions (**nice!**), and that our Nagios monitoring wasn't working anymore for the HMC CPU check (**WTF?**). Manually checking on the HMC CLI showed this: <code>hscroot@hmc:~> monhmc -n 0 -r proc
-/opt/hsc/bin/MONHmc: line 80: awk: command not found</code> That's a nice one, isn't it? Could probably be easily fixed like this: <code>diff -u MONHmc.orig MONHmc  +/opt/hsc/bin/MONHmc: line 80: awk: command not found</code> That's a nice one, isn't it? Could probably be easily fixed like this: <code diff>diff -u MONHmc.orig MONHmc  
---- MONHmc.orig 2012-06-19 19:34:15.000000000 +0200 +--- /opt/hsc/bin/MONHmc.orig 2012-06-19 19:34:15.000000000 +0200 
-+++ MONHmc      2012-06-19 19:13:41.000000000 +0200++++ /opt/hsc/bin/MONHmc      2012-06-19 19:13:41.000000000 +0200
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     if [ ! -f ${HOME}/.toprc ];then     if [ ! -f ${HOME}/.toprc ];then