AIX Upgrade from 6.1 to 7.1

Usage and Config Patch
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Can I upgrate AIX from 6.1 to 7.1 from bigfix console. I have done TL and SL update successfully but haven’t tried OS upgrade for AIX. If anyone has done this please share your experience.

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Major OS updates are not currently supported from within the BigFix / IEM console. However, there are planned enhancements to the NIM management dashboards that will include major OS updates within a NIM environment. We hope to have these enhancements released before the end of 2015, assuming that no higher priority items shove it off of the road map.

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Thank you Jacob for quick reply!

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Has there been an status change on the ability to do a major OS update for AIX with Bigfix, or is it still not possible?

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@Aram would you be able to weigh-in here?

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@cmcannady - do you use Bigfix at all for AIX OS update, or is it strictly manual.

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@mbartosh, when I was a customer, the AIX OS updates were performed via custom content. I’ve posted your question on my team’s Teams chat, and got the following response from @garyl.

Still not possible. we only deliver SP/TL within the same release.
I guess we could do something custom with NIM

I don’t see any BigFix Ideas (aka RFE) for this topic, so I’d recommend logging one at your convenience.

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Ok, then you were using Bigfix to perform your OS upgrades, but you just had to build it yourself. Has anything been posted regarding how to do that?

I assume then that OS upgrades for AIX have an unattended command-line.