Does the Altiris Agent for UNIX 6.2 support AIX 6.1?

Products

• IT Management Suite

Issue/Introduction

Do the following products support AIX 6.1?

• Altiris Agent for UNIX and Linux 6.2
• Inventory Solution for UNIX and Linux 6.2 
• Software Delivery for UNIX and Linux 6.1 SP1

Resolution

 Symantec has performed fairly high-level testing of the Altiris Agent 6.x on AIX 6.1. The testing involved the following:

1. Push install of the agent (manually selecting AIX 5.3 OS in the 'Install settings' screen)
2. Manual install of the agent (using aex-bootstrap)
3. Manual uninstall of the agent (using aex-uninstall)
4. Enable all Inventory Solution for Unix/AIX tasks 
5. Enable default Software Delivery sample policy
6. Create and enable one additional command-line only software delivery job

All tests were performed using the default settings, i.e., installation path, package paths, run levels, etc.

The following product builds were tested:

• Altirs Agent for UNIX and Linux 6.2.1378 with hotfix Agent for UNIX and Linux KB39189
• Altiris Inventory Solution for UNIX and Linux 6.2.1034
• Altiris Software Delivery Solution for UNIX and Linux 6.1.3006

The testing was performed on the following platform:

System Type:	IBM (9110-510) P5 510 pSeries
CPU Detail:	Architecture - PowerPC_POWER5     Speed - 1499 MHz
CPU Qty:	4
CPU Bits:	64-bit
OS Type:	AIX 6.1
OS Kernel:	6.1.0.0
Memory:	3920 MB

'oslevel -g' returns: Actual Level: 6.1.1.0 Maintenance level: 6.1.0.0. 

Test Results:

There were no errors encountered during any procedure.

The resource shows in the 'All AIX Computers' collection. There is not an existing collection for just AIX 6.1 computers. Cloning a corresponding 5.x collection and modifying the selection criteria easily remedies this.

Note that this test is in no way to be considered exhaustive or to cover all possible run-time configurations, patch levels and environments.