13.4 The showmount Command

13.5 Quiz

1. Company ABC recently ordered 30 new model F50 systems, which they are custom installing with AIX 4.3.1 as branch office servers. The system administrator decided to use NIM to install the new servers with the base operating system and all of the applications the systems will need. The install type is spot, using a non /usr spot named 431spot. The installation of the first system is hanging at 611 LED, but all the filesystems appear to be properly exported from the NIM server. Which of the following commands will build debug boot images?

   A.

   nim -o check -a debug=yes 431spot

   B.

   nimclient -o check -a debug=yes 431spot

   C.

   nim -o debug 431spot

   D.

   lsnim -a debug=yes 431spot

2. Company ABC is migrating all of the plant servers from AIX 4.2.1 to AIX 4.3.1 using NIM. The 240 server in the customer services department is hanging during the install, and the LED is at 611, indicating a failure mounting a network file system from the NIM server. What can the system administrator do to determine which file system the NIM client is unable to mount.

   A.

   Unmount the NFS file systems exported from the server to the client.

   B.

   Put the tftp daemon on the server in debug mode.

   C.

   Restart the install using NIM debug boot images.

   D.

   Restart the NFS services on the NIM server.

13.5.1 Answers

1.

A

2.

C

13.6 Exercises