IBM AIX SMIT

The AIX System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) is an interactive tool bundled with AIX which provides a menu-based alternative to the command line for managing and maintaining the AIX operating system.

Features

Modes of Operation

SMIT can run in one of two modes: ASCII (non-graphical) or X (graphical). The ASCII mode of SMIT can run on either terminals or graphical displays. The graphical mode of SMIT (which supports a mouse and point-and-click operations) can be run only on a graphical display running a window manager. The ASCII mode is often the preferred method to run SMIT because it can be run from any machine.

To start SMIT using ASCII mode, type the following at the command line:

To start the graphical mode of SMIT, type the following:

If you try to run SMIT using its basic form:

it will automatically detect if your display has graphical capabilities, and run itself in the graphical mode, if possible.

IBM AIX

AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive, pronounced /ˌeɪaɪˈɛks/) is a series of proprietary Unix operating systems developed and sold by IBM for several of its computer platforms. Originally released for the IBM 6150 RISC workstation, AIX now supports or has supported a wide variety of hardware platforms, including the IBM RS/6000 series and later POWER and PowerPC-based systems, IBM System i, System/370 mainframes, PS/2 personal computers, and the Apple Network Server.

AIX is based on UNIX System V with 4.3BSD-compatible extensions. It is one of five commercial operating systems that have versions certified to The Open Group's UNIX 03 standard (the others being Mac OS X, Solaris, Inspur K-UX and HP-UX).

The AIX family of operating systems debuted in 1986, became the standard operating system for the RS/6000 series on its launch in 1990, and is still actively developed by IBM. It is currently supported on IBM Power Systems alongside IBM i and Linux.

AIX was the first operating system to utilize journaling file systems, and IBM has continuously enhanced the software with features like processor, disk and network virtualization, dynamic hardware resource allocation (including fractional processor units), and reliability engineering ported from its mainframe designs.