Course Overview
This course is designed to teach experienced PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX professionals the latest features in PowerHA SystemMirror. It covers how to:
- Effectively administer and monitor an IBM PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX cluster
- Implement PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX’s more complex options
What you’ll learn
- Review fundamental PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX concepts and components
- Create four node clusters with two independent resource groups
- Create and test robust application start and stop scripts
- Create and test custom application monitors
- Create resource group dependencies
- Customize event notifications
- Integrate WPAR and DLPAR with applications under PowerHA control
- Integrate applications into PowerHA using Smart Assists
- Determine the status of the cluster and cluster components using PowerHA/SNMP commands
- Manage the cluster using the IBM Systems Director plug-in
Requirements
- PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX System Administration I: Planning and Implementation (AN61G)
- The AIX operating system
- The IBM server hardware that they are using
- The principles of good system management
- TCP/IP communications concepts and tools, as covered in (AN12G) or (AN14G) briefly
- Logical Volume Manager (LVM) concepts and configuration, as covered in (AN12G) or (AN14G)
- Good Korn Shell script programming
Target audiences
- Students who want to learn to work with the PowerHA SystemMirror 7.1 for AIX
- Students who want to learn about how to implement PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX in complex configurations
- Technical leaders responsible for designing PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX clustering solutions
Curriculum
- 1 Section
- 5 Lessons
- 40 Hours
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- Topics5
- 1.1Day 1 Welcome Unit 1: PowerHA review with the advanced topology and CSPOC Exercise 1: Lab setup, cluster review, topology, and CSPOC administration
- 1.2Day 2 Unit 2: Adding applications Exercise 2: Adding additional applications
- 1.3Day 3 Unit 3: Advanced administration: Resources and resource groups Exercise 3: Application monitors and resource group dependencies
- 1.4Day 4 Unit 4: Determining cluster status using the command line interface Exercise 4: Determining cluster status using command line Unit 5: Advanced administration: Event configuration Exercise 5: PowerHA for AIX event configuration
- 1.5Day 5 Unit 6: Advanced administration: DLPAR and WPAR implementation Exercise 6: Implementing DLPAR and WPAR Unit 7: Using the PowerHA SystemMirror plug-in for IBM Systems Director (optional) Open lab time
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