WA1183 AIX System Administration

This course combines lectures and hands-on labs to teach the participant how to manage the AIX operating system. It includes information on basic system administration, as well as including topics that are AIX-specific that would be of interest to administrators coming from other platforms. The course may be customized to include topics associated with AIX on the SP platforms
Topics
  • Introduction to System Administration
  • System Management Tool (smit)
  • Managing Devices
  • System Startup/Shutdown
  • File System Concepts
  • The Journaled File System
  • Backup and Restore
  • Logical Volume Manager
  • Managing Users and Groups
  • AIX Queuing System
  • Basic Problem Determination
Audience
New AIX system administrators or administrators migrating from other UNIX systems to AIX
Prerequisites
A familiarity with using the UNIX operating system, including using vi, navigating file systems and using basic commands.
Duration
Five days.
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