Accessing AIX box from Windows

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In order to access AIX box from Windows you will need either PuTTY or WinSCP. PuTTY has character user interface wherein you need to type the UNIX commands. WinSCP on the other side is a GUI tool. To connect to AIX box you will need Host name / IP address and the port number. By default PuTTY connects using SSH on port 22. You will need the username and the password as well.

Some of the usefull commands are listed below

1. sudo su –
   Change user to get super user privileges.
2. df –k
   df –g
   Check the disk space occupied by each directory
3. topas
   Check the current CPU usage
4. stty erase ^?
   Enable the usage of backspace on PuTTY
   
5. set -o vi
   this command is used to show the commands when you press up/down keys
6. oslevel -g
   Displays the version of operating system
7. prtconf
   Displays system configuration information