[dtrace-discuss] AIX: dtrace?

Alexander Kolbasov
Thu, 24 May 2007 19:04:36 -0000

> I think it''s safe to say that IBM is ignoring my suggestion:
>
>   http://blogs.sun.com/bmc/entry/dtrace_on_aix
>
> As for "probevue", we know very little about it (googling for
"probevue"
> current yields three hits:  one is the link you quoted, one is some
> blog entry saying that this "sure as hell sounds like DTrace" and
the
> last is in Russian).  From the little that we do know, it seems unlikely
> to be a holistic DTrace-like solution, but we''ll see...

http://www.linux.org.ru/view-message.jsp?msgid=1935398

The Russian page translation:

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"IBM tries to ''sort of open'' AIX 6 - the declaration of
intentions.

AIX 6 open beta will be available for the participants of the AIX 6 open beta
program in mid 2007 (the http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/aix/ page will contain
links to ISO images).

It would be available for Power4, PPC970, POWER5 or POWER6 processors including
the IBM System p, IBM System p5, IBM eServer p5, IBM eServer pSeries server
product lines, as well as IBM BladeCenter JS2x blades and IntelliStation POWER
workstations.

What will be missing

1) Some crypto options (related to export control restrictions). Missing
crypto options include Encrypted Filesystem, trusted Execution and NFS
encryption support.

2) Flexible installation support. A simplified installation based on mksysb
   will be provided, everything will be simplified to the Vista level:
     - No "Secure by Default" and "Trusted AIX" templates
     - No installation GUI
     - The installer will try to remove everything on the target disk before
       installing
No support for data migration when upgrading beta to the release AIX 6. <I am
not sure whether the author means support from the system or support from
IBM>.

What will be included:
1) Itself
2) Workload partitions
3)Role Based Access Control
4)AIX Security Expert enhancements
5)Name Resolver Caching Daemon
6)probevue dynamic tracing
7)System Director Console for AIX

P.S. IMHO this news should be treated not as a news about ISO images
availability but as an attempt to increase interest towards AIX.
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There are tons of comments that are left as an exercise to the reader :-).

One comment adds that the missing part includes full source code of AIX6 and
most of the DDK.

-- akolb