AIX Documentation

Today we will have a look at AIX documentations. 

Before going into the details, let us see a figure regarding AIX documentation.

AIX softcopy documentation is loaded on a documentation server. Any other computer on the network with a web-browser software can access the documentation from the server, these machines are called Documentation Clients.

To configure the Documentation Server, the following has to be installed and configured:

a.AIX softcopy documentation

b.Eclipse Web Server

c.Web Browser Software

The Documentation Client needs to just have a web browser software like Internet explorer.

Configuration of online AIX documentation

•Install the Web Server Software and start the Web Server Software

•Install the Web Browser Software

•Install the AIX documentation

•Install the Information Center run time environment

–AIX 5L V5.3 Documentation CD

–Includes internal eclipse Web server

–infocenter.aix.rte

•Configure Documentation Services

– #smit change_documentation_services

**NOTE:- [Steps to configure the AIX Online Documentation on the Documentation server are as follows:-

•Install the mozilla  web brower from expansion Pack CD.

•#smit change_documentation_services ]

DOCUMENTATION SERVICES 

Use  the fast path smit change_documentation_services to configure the documentation server. If installation is correct then these values will come automatically as shown in the slide. Eclipse Web server listen the requests on port 64111. So you have to check the port number. It should be 64111. 


IBM pSeries Information Center

Once the AIX Documentation is configured on your machine, you can access it

Using the web browser. In the web browser’s address bar you can type in

http://hostname:64111/help/index.jsp

Instead of hostname you can also use the ip address.

Information Center Documents

NOTE:-Once you type the proper address in address bar you will get the home page of documentation. On the home page you will get links for PDFs that contains the AIX commands. You can download these PDFs to your machine and save them for future use.

Information Center Search

Here you can see the search box where you can type command name and then click on go button. It will show all the pages links in the left pane that contains the word you typed in search box.