Course Overview
Provide focused training for experienced UNIX administrators on how to install, customize, and administer the AIX operating system in a multiuser POWER (System p) partitioned environment. The course is based on AIX 7.1 running on a Power system managed by Hardware Management Console version 7 and provides practical discussions that are appropriate to earlier AIX releases.
Objectives
- Install the AIX operating system, filesets, and RedHat Package Manager (RPM) packages
- Perform system startup and shutdown
- Discuss and use system management tools such as System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) and IBM Systems Director console for AIX
- Manage physical and logical devices
- Discuss the purpose of the logical volume manager
- Perform logical volume and file system management
- Perform and restore system backups
- Use the AIX error log as a tool in problem determination
- Configure Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) networking
Audience
This intermediate course is intended for experienced UNIX system administrators who need training to support their transition to supporting AIX running on POWER processor based systems in a multiuser POWER (System p) partitioned environment.
Prerequisites
You should be able to use basic UNIX commands to:
- Execute basic AIX commands
- Manage files and directories
- Use the vi editor
- Use redirection, pipes, and tees
- Use the utilities find and grep
- Use command and variable substitution
- Set and change Korn shell variables
- Write simple shell scripts
The above skills can be acquired by attending AIX Basics (AU130) or (AN100) or through equivalent AIX/UNIX knowledge.
In addition, you are expected to have hands-on experience administering a UNIX operating system (such as Solaris, HP/UX, and others) including:
- User management and system security
- Storage
- Networking
- System shutdown and restart
- Backup and recovery
- System task scheduling
Topics
Day 1
- Welcome
- Unit 1: Introduction to AIX and IBM Power systems
- Exercise 1: Introduction to AIX and IBM Power systems
- Unit 2: AIX system management tools
- Exercise 2: Using system management tools in AIX
- Unit 3: AIX software installation and maintenance
- Exercise 3: AIX software installation and maintenance
- Unit 4: System configuration and devices
- Exercise 4: System configuration and devices
Day 2
- Unit 5: TCP/IP networking
- Exercise 5: TCP/IP implementation
- Unit 6: System startup and shutdown
- Exercise 6: System startup and shutdown
- Unit 7: Basics of configuring logical partitions
- Exercise 7: Configuring logical partitions
- Unit 8: AIX installation
- Exercise 8: AIX installation
- Unit 9: Working with the Logical Volume Manager
Day 3
- Exercise 9Working with LVM
- Unit 10: File systems administration
- Exercise 10: File systems administration
- Unit 11: The Object Data Manager
- Exercise 11: The Object Data Manager
- Unit 12: LVM metadata
- Exercise 12: LVM metadata issues
- Unit 13: Disk management procedures
- Exercise 13: Disk management procedures
Day 4
- Unit 14: Backup and restore
- Exercise 14: Backup and restore
- Unit 15: Error monitoring
- Exercise 15: Error monitoring
- Unit 16: System initialization – I
- Exercise 16: System initialization – I (Parts 1-3)
Day 5
- Exercise 16: System initialization – I (Part 4)
- Unit 17: System initialization – II
- Exercise 17: System initialization – II
- Unit 18: The AIX system dump facility
- Exercise 18: System dump
- Unit 19, Topic 1: Alternate disk installation
- Exercise 19,Topic 1: Alternate Disk
- Unit 19, Topic 2: Using multibos
- Exercise 19: Topic 2: multibos
- Optional Appendix A: Survey of additional AIX facilities
- Optional Appendix B: Printers and queues
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