Duration: 5 Days
Learn to install, customize and administer the AIX operating system in a multi-user POWER (System p) partitioned environment.
The course is based on AIX 7 running on a Power system managed by Hardware Management Console Version 7 and provides practical discussions that are appropriate to earlier AIX releases.
What You Will 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) 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 TCP/IP networking
Audience
This intermediate course is appropriate for experienced UNIX system administrators who want to support AIX running on POWER processor based systems in a mult-iuser POWER (System p) partitioned environment.
Prerequistes
You should be able to use basic UNIX commands including:
- 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
These skills can be acquired by attending AIX 6 Basics (AN100) or through equivalent AIX/UNIX knowledge.
You should also have 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
Course Outline
Day 1
- (00:30) Welcome
- (00:50) Unit 1: Introduction to AIX and IBM Power systems
- (00:30) Exercise 1
- (00:30) Unit 2: AIX system management tools
- (00:30) Exercise 2
- (01:20) Unit 3: AIX software installation and maintenance
- (00:20) Exercise 3
- (01:00) Unit 4: System configuration and devices
- (00:30) Exercise 4
Day 2
- (00:25 Unit 5: TCP/IP networking
- (00:15) Exercise 5
- (00:40) Unit 6: System startup and shutdown
- (00:30) Exercise 6
- (00:30) Unit 7: Basics of configuring logical partitions
- (01:00) Exercise 7
- (01:00) Unit 8: AIX installation
- (01:00) Exercise 8
- (00:45) Unit 9: Working with the Logical Volume Manager
Day 3
- (01:10) Exercise 9
- (00:50) Unit 10: File systems administration
- (00:25) Exercise 10
- (00:40) Unit 11: The Object Data Manager
- (00:30) Exercise 11
- (00:35) Unit 12: LVM metadata
- (00:40) Exercise 12
- (00:30) Unit 13: Disk management procedures
- (00:40) Exercise 13
Day 4
- (00:50) Unit 14: Backup and restore
- (00:60) Exercise 14
- (00:35) Unit 15: Error monitoring
- (00:30) Exercise 15
- (01:20) Unit 16: System initialization - I
- (01:05) Exercise 16 (parts 1-3)
Day 5
- (00:30) Exercise 16 (part 4)
- (00:35) Unit 17: System initialization - II
- (00:35) Exercise 17
- (00:25) Unit 18: The AIX system dump facility
- (00:15) Exercise 18
- (01:12) Unit 19: Advanced install techniques
- (00:20) Unit 19 part I: Alternate disk installation
- (00:15) Exercise 19: Alternate disk - part 1 (pre-clone)
- (00:15) Unit 19 part II: Using multibos
- (00:15) Exercise 19: Alternate disk - part 2 (post-clone)
- (00:35) Exercise 19: multibos
- (00:40) Optional Appendix A: Survey of additional AIX facilities
Course Labs
