Summary: ALthough AIX is by now on version 7.3 I find these old pages so fascinating I decided to keep them. On this page I'll show you how to a work with a standalone client to the NIM environment. This page is for AIX 5.3 and AIX 6.1.
Date: Between 2010-2013
Refactor: 21 December 2024: Checked formatting.

This page shows you how to add a standalone client to the NIM environment, and how to reset and remove it again. This is mostly done through smitty.

smitty nim

• Perform NIM Administration Tasks
  • Manage Machines
    • Define a Machine

(smit fastpath: smit nim_mkmac) Fill in the hostname the NIM server can resolve! If not, NIM will create a new network or disply other miscellaneous errors. NOTE: without proper DNS A and PTR records the NFS mount will fail

In case the client has a running operation or something like that you'll first have to reset the state of the specific machine: smitty nim

• Perform NIM Administration Tasks
  • Manage Machines
    • Perform Operations on Machines

Select the machine you want to reset and press ENTER and select the reset operation:

Or use this command:

bash-3.2# nim -o reset lpar01

Now you can remove the machine: smitty nim

• Perform NIM Administration Tasks
  • Manage Machines
    • Remove a Machine

Select the machine you're trying to remove and confirm (couple of times).