AIX Jumpstart for UNIX Professionals

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 6.1 running on a Power system managed by Hardware Management Console version 7 and provides practical discussions that are appropriate to earlier AIX releases.

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 6.1 running on a Power system managed by Hardware Management Console version 7 and provides practical discussions that are appropriate to earlier AIX releases.

Students 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 Basics (AU13) or through equivalent AIX/UNIX knowledge.

Students 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

·        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

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.

Day 1

·        Unit 1: Introduction to AIX and IBM Power systems

·        Exercise 1

·        Unit 2: AIX system management tools

·        Exercise 2

·        Unit 3: AIX software installation and maintenance

·        Exercise 3

·        Unit 4: System configuration and devices

·        Exercise 4

·        Unit 5: TCP/IP networking

·        Exercise 5

·        Unit 6: System startup and shutdown

Day 2

·        Exercise 6

·        Unit 7: Basics of configuring logical partitions

·        Exercise 7

·        Unit 8: AIX installation

·        Exercise 8

·        Unit 9: Working with Logical Volume Manager

·        Exercise 9

Day 3

·        Unit 10: File systems administration

·        Exercise 10

·        Unit 11: Backup and restore

·        Exercise 11

·        Unit 12: The Object Data Manager

·        Exercise 12

·        Unit 13: Error monitoring

·        Exercise 13

Day 4

·        Unit 14: System initialization - I

·        Exercise 14

·        Unit 15: System initialization - II

·        Exercise 15

·        Unit 16: LVM metadata

·        Exercise 16

·        Unit 17: Disk management procedures

·        Exercise 17

·        Unit 18: The AIX system dump facility

Day 5

·        Exercise 18

·        Unit 19: Advanced install techniques

·        Unit 19 part 1: alternate disk utilities

·        Exercise 19: alternate disk - part 1

·        Unit 19 part II: multibos

·        Exercise 19: alternate disk - part 2

·        Exercise 19: multibos

·        Unit 20: Survey of additional AIX facilities