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Written by Michael Felt
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As an author of the AIX benchmark for CIS Security I have been reorginizing the benchmark - not to be a reflection of the command aixpert which is likely only understandable by AIX/UNIX/Linux administrators to one that follows the organization of the CIS Controls themselves.
There are a lot of organizations that are still committed to CIS Controls Version 7.1. However, earlier this year (2021) the newest version of CIS Controls Version 8 was released. With this new release the control numbers have changed greatly. Historically, CIS ised the order of the Controls as a means to focus cybersecurity activites performed by an organization - with the first 6 controls labeled "cyber hygiene". In version 7 CIS started a new method of guidance (while leaving the order of chapters largely intact). The new guidance was called Implementation Groups (IGs). FYI: In version 7.1 the Controls were still grouped by chapter order in three categories: Basic, Foundational, and Organizational.
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Written by Michael Felt
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The portal ROOTVG.NET has existed for over 20 years. (AIX was still under 15 years! old). The portal came before the IBM DeveloperWorks portal, and was - in those days - likely more visited.
In review - the first 10 years - ROOTVG filled a need - and while never in the 1000's per day - there were regular new visitors to the portal and the forums - for active, and especially new AIX administrators. Filling a need - is great.
The last 10 years has seen to growth in new AIX admins drop - and with that drop - the opportunity to satisify a need has dropped. I measure in the questions I get via questions posted on the forums (and/or via a direct message via the forums).
And so, if I am honest - the time to close the portal is coming fast - likely Q1 of 2022 - UNLESS, suddenly, unexpectedly, there is some regularity in the questions I receive.
And, yes, something happened! I have registered a new business in the Netherlands (AIXTools) and shall continue to work on both RootvgNet and AIXTools - probably a big face lift.
In any case - (update) - the short answer is NO! The time has not yet come! 
Michael
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 09 November 2021 )
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Written by Michael Felt
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Actually, what I wanted to find was the latest version of "AIX: Strength to Strength", but sadly, I cannot find that document. If you know where it is - be great and tweet it to me! @rootvgnet
Sadly, I also needed a lot of clicksto find something like an "AIX product homepage".
So, to save you the same problems - the current link is here!
(p.s., also tweet if it breaks, as I am nearly certain it will!)
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Written by Ozan Uzun
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I installed a couple of 82xLC machines, which have on board sata/sas cards.
I see that the raid card configuration is not well documented.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 11 July 2018 )
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Written by Michael Felt
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Today is an important day for my OSS portal AIXTOOLS because I am goig to start packaging some packages based on AIX 6.1 TL7 (SP6) - rather than "always" at level AIX 5.3 TL7.
The packages that will start everything off will be security related packages (such as sudo - so I can add RBAC features (pst: a test version of sudo-rbac here ), python (to add, among other things libuuid support), and other networkbased tools.
As of this moment - nothing is switched yet - but most new things will be built on my new development partition - x066 - running, again AIX 6.1 TL7.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 19 April 2018 )
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