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Given the following Isdev output, which command will identify the underlying devices and network type of ent4 below? root@server1:/#Isdev-I ent4 ent4 Available EtherChannel / IEEE 802.3ad Link…
The correct answer is D. Isattr-EI ent4. The lsattr -El command displays the effective (current) attribute values for an AIX device, revealing the underlying member adapters and configuration parameters of an EtherChannel.
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Given the following Isdev output, which command will identify the underlying devices and network type of ent4 below? root@server1:/#Isdev-I ent4 ent4 Available EtherChannel / IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation
Options
- AIsdev-dev ent4 -attr
- BIscfg-vl ent4
- Ccfgmgr-1|grepent4
- DIsattr-EI ent4
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The lsattr -El command displays the effective (current) attribute values for an AIX device, revealing the underlying member adapters and configuration parameters of an EtherChannel.
lsdev does not support an -attr flag; lsdev is used to list devices and their states, not to display device attribute values.
lscfg -vl ent4 returns Vital Product Data and hardware-level configuration, not the EtherChannel member adapters or aggregation mode attributes stored in ODM.
cfgmgr -l triggers device configuration or reconfiguration and is not used to query existing device attributes.
lsattr -El ent4 queries the ODM for the current effective attributes of the ent4 device, which for an EtherChannel includes the adapter_names attribute listing its physical member adapters (e.g., ent0, ent1) and the mode or network_type attributes. The -E flag retrieves effective values and -l specifies the target logical device name, making this the correct command to inspect EtherChannel composition.
Concept tested: Querying AIX EtherChannel device attributes with lsattr
Source: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aix/7.3?topic=l-lsattr-command
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