cfgmgr tips
More on cfgmgr, from aix:
you can execute cfgmgr on line without trouble
normally cfgmgr have 3 steps named phases :
phase 1 during boot
phase 2 during normal boot (after phase1)
phase 3 during service boot (after phase1)
if you run cfgmgr without flags (-p or -f) cfgmgr executes phase 2 only by
default
in fact cfgmgr and cfgmgr -p2 are the sames commands
flag -v for verbose
Configuring New Devices using cfgmgr:
cfgmgr configures devices and optionally installs device software by running the programs specified in the Configuration Rules object class.
cfgmgr
-v To give detailed output
-l <Device_name> To configure the device and
all it's chidren
-i <device> Location of installation medium
To search for new devices and configure them
#cfgmgr
To configure detected devices attached to the fcs0 adapter
# cfgmgr -l fcs0
To install device drivers which is in /tmp/drivers automatically during configuration
# cfgmgr -i /tmp/drivers