Verifying the status of your client machine

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Use the niminit command to verify the status of your client machine.

To verify that the niminit command completed successfully, enter the following command at the NIM client: 
# nimclient -l -l MachineObjectName
The system returns output similar to the following: 
Standalone2:
   class          =  machines
   type           =  standalone
   Cstate         =  ready for a NIM operation
   platform       =  chrp
   netboot_kernel =  up
   if1            =  Network2 standalone2 08005acd536d
   cable_type1    =  bnc
   iplrom_emu     =  /dev/fd0
   prev_state     =  customization is being performed
   cpuid          =  000247903100
   Mstate         =  currently running
   Cstate_result  =  success

If the system output to this query indicates any errors, you must validate all of your data, checking for accurate spelling, nonduplication of NIM names, and so forth, and redo the niminit operation.

Be sure to coordinate this operation with the system administrator of the NIM master, and ensure that all NIM object names are unique in the entire NIM environment.