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AIX is a flavour of Unix From IBM. It is of great demand today.AIX System

Administrators are in demand. This post gives a brief isting of various AIX
commands and thier usage.This can be used as a quick reference.

alog - Used to maintain and manage log files

cfgmgr - Configures devices and optionally installs device software into the
system
last - Displays all the previous logins and logoffs that still have entries in
/var/adm/wtmp file
bootlist - Displays and alters the list of boot devices available to the system
uptime - Shows how long the system has been up
mpcfg - Enables a user with root authority to manage service information
shutdown - Used to shut down the system
lsdev - Displays devices on the system and their characteristics
lspv - Displays information about a physical volume within a volume group
lsattr - Displays information about the attributes of a given device or kind of
device
oslevel - command can be used to verify that a system has been successfully
migrated from a lower version of AIX to a higher version
installp - command is used to install and update software
odmadd - Adds objects to an object class. The odmadd command takes an
ASCII stanza file as input and populates object classes with objects found in the
stanza file
odmchange - Changes specific objects in a specified object class
odmcreate - Creates empty object classes. The odmcreate command takes an
ASCII file describing object classes as input and produces C language .h and .c
files to be used by the application accessing objects in those object classes
odmdelete - Removes objects from an object class
odmdrop - Removes an entire object class
odmget - Retrieves objects from object classes and puts the object information
into odmadd command format
odmshow - Displays the description of an object class. The odmshow command
takes an object class name as input and puts the object class information into
odmcreate command format
getlvcb - command displays the information held in the LVCB of logical volume
(hdn)(n=1,2..).The LVCB is located at the start of every logical volume. It
contains information about the logical volume and uses a few hundred bytes
mklv - command allows us to select one or two additional copies for each logical
volume
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mklvcopy - Mirroring can also be added to an existing logical volume

mirrorvg - command mirrors all the logical volumes on a given volume group.
The bosboot command creates a boot file (boot image) from a RAM (Random
Access Memory) disk file system and a kernel. The bosboot command is required
to customize the bootrec of the newly mirrored drive.
vmstat,topas - indicate the amount of paging space I/O that is taking place
chps - Changes the attributes of a paging space
lsps - Displays the characteristics of a paging space
mkps - Creates an additional paging space
rmps - Removes an inactive paging space
swapon - Activates a paging space
swapoff - Deactivates one or more paging spaces
chps -d - command decreases the size of paging space by x logical
partitions(where x=1,2..)
sysdumpdev -l - Check the primary dump device we are using
sysdumpdev -P -p /dev/new_dump_device - to change the default dump device
mksysb - command creates a bootable image of all mounted file systems on
the rootvg volume group
backup - command can allow an administrator to make sets of incremental
backups over periods of time
tctl - command sends subcommands to a streaming tape device, like
/dev/rmt0. This command can manipulate tapes easily for data restoration
tcopy,dd - commands to determine tape block size
chdev - to change the block size
rmfs - command removes a file system
bootinfo -p,lscfg -vp grep Arch - To determine what your platform system is in

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