<font size=2 face="sans-serif">IBM BigFix Patch is pleased to announce
the multibos support for AIX 5.3 TL3 and later versions. </font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> </font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Multibos is an efficient way to apply
updates on endpoints that may not have any free alternate disks, but has
only one disk available on rootvg. With multibos, users can deploy technology
level (TL) or service pack (SP) updates to an endpoint's standby base operating
system (BOS) instance without impacting the active BOS instance. Multibos
can help manage downtime and risk during an uprgrade, ensuring continuous
operation of the AIX operating system on the endpoint. </font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> </font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>Highlights: </b></font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The <b>AIX Advanced Deployment
Wizard</b> was enhanced to include a section mainly for the following
multibos operations:</font><ul><li><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Multibos express task: Creating a BOS
and deploying TL or SP updates to it</font><li><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Creating a standby BOS</font><li><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Deploying TL or SP updates</font><li><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Updating the boot list</font><li><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Removing a standby BOS</font><li><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Running preview tasks for installations
and updates</font></ul><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">This release also includes the release
of the "Deploy AIX StartUp/Shutdown script for multibos reboot"
Fixlet, which must be deployed before rebooting to a standby BOS.</font><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>Actions to Take:</b></font><ul><li><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Ensure that the current rootvg has enough
space for each BOS logic volume. The total number of copied logical volumes
cannot exceed 128. The total number of copied logical volumes and shared
logical volumes are subject to volume group limits.</font><li><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Register and configure the AIX Download
Plug-in or enable the NFS service and configure an NFS share to deploy
TL and SP updates using multibos. For more information, see </font><a href="http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS6MER_9.5.0/com.ibm.bigfix.patch.doc/Patch/Patch_AIX/t_registering_aix_download_plug-in.html"><font size=2 color=blue face="sans-serif">Registering
the AIX download plug-in</font></a><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> or </font><a href=http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS6MER_9.5.0/com.ibm.bigfix.patch.doc/Patch/Patch_AIX/c_nfs_support.html><font size=2 color=blue face="sans-serif">Network
File System support</font></a><font size=2 face="sans-serif">.</font><li><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Ensure that the endpoints contain the
expect.base fileset.</font><li><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Ensure that you have sufficient amount
of disk space on the /var partition to accommodate large files. Use the
available tasks to set any size or space limitations. For more information,
see </font><a href=http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS6MER_9.5.0/com.ibm.bigfix.patch.doc/Patch/Patch_AIX/c_fixpack_download_config.html><font size=2 color=blue face="sans-serif">Fix
pack download configuration</font></a><font size=2 face="sans-serif">.</font></ul><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>Published Site Version:</b></font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Patches for AIX site, version 499</font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> </font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><b>Documentation:</b></font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">For more information, see the IBM BigFix
Knowledge Center at </font><a href=http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS6MER_9.5.0/com.ibm.bigfix.patch.doc/Patch/Patch_AIX/c_overview_patch_aix.html><font size=2 color=blue face="sans-serif">http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS6MER_9.5.0/com.ibm.bigfix.patch.doc/Patch/Patch_AIX/c_overview_patch_aix.html</font></a><font size=2 face="sans-serif">.</font><br><br><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>Application Engineering Team</i></font><br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"><i>IBM BigFix Patch </i></font><BR>