Course Overview
Provide focused training for experienced UNIX administrators on how to install, customize, and administer the AIX operating system in a multiuser IBM Power server partitioned environment. The course is based on AIX 7.3 running on a Power system managed by Hardware Management Console version 10 and provides practical discussions that are appropriate to earlier AIX releases.
What you’ll learn
- 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)
- 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 and RMC as tools in problem determination
- Configure Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) networking
Requirements
- 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 (AN10D1DG or AN10G) 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
Target audiences
- This intermediate course is intended for system administrators who need training to support their transition to supporting AIX running on IBM Power processor based systems in a multiuser Power (System p) partitioned environment.
Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 5 Lessons
- 40 Hours
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- Topics5
- 1.1Day 1 Welcome Unit 1: Introduction to AIX and IBM Power servers Exercise 1: Introduction to AIX and IBM Power servers 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
- 1.2Day 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
- 1.3Day 3 Exercise 9: Working 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
- 1.4Day 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)
- 1.5Day 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, Advanced install techniques Topic 1: Alternate disk installation Exercise 19, Advanced install techniques Topic 1: Alternate Disk Unit 19, Advanced install techniques Topic 2: Using multibos Exercise 19: Advanced install techniques Topic 2: multibos Optional Appendix A: Survey of additional AIX facilities Optional Appendix B: Printers and queues
Instructor
