IBM eServer Certification Study Guide - pSeries AIX System Administration

4.4. Understanding maintenance levels

Once you have installed the base operating system, you can determine the maintenance level with the oslevel command.

The general syntax of the oslevel command is as follows:

oslevel [ -l Level | -g | -q ]

A brief description of the oslevel command flags is given in Table 4-1.

Table 4-1. Command flags for oslevel

Flag	Description
-l Level	Lists filesets at levels earlier than the maintenance levels specified by the Level parameter.
-g	Lists filesets at levels later than the current maintenance level.
-q	Lists names of known maintenance levels that can be specified using the -l flag.

To see the current maintenance level of your system, use the oslevel command as follows:

# oslevel
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