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