WA1183 AIX System Administration Training and Courseware

1. System Administration Concepts

• Lecture objectives
• Who is the system administrator?
• What does the system administrator do?
• What a system administrator must know
• Using the root login id
• Aix configuration files
• System security
• Lecture summary

2. The System Management Interface Tool

• Lecture objectives
• Unix system management -- the old way
• Aix system management
• The philosophy -- "smit happens"
• High level commands
• Smit tasks
• Smit screens
• Smit screen symbols
• Smit function keys
• The log and script files
• The smit graphical user interface
• Executing smit
• Lecture summary

3.Managing AIX User Accounts and Groups

• Objectives
• Lecture objectives
• Attributes of a user accounts
• Managing aix groups
• Passwords

4. Managing AIX User Accounts and Groups (Cont'd)

• Aix user and group management files
• The /etc/passwd file
• The /etc/security/passwd file
• The /etc/group file
• The /etc/security/group file
• Group administrators
• The /etc/security/user file
• The /etc/security/limits file
• The /etc/security/login.cfg file
• User management tasks
• Adding a new user
• The /usr/lib/security/user.default file
• Removing a user
• Adding a group
• Setting port attributes
• User services
• Lecture summary

5.AIX Device Management

• Lecture objectives
• Aix devices
• Aix device management strategy
• Device management tasks
• The configuration manager (/etc/cfgmgr)
• The object data manager
• Methods and device states
• A word about scsi devices
• Device management through smit
• Adding devices
• Removing a device
• Changing a device
• Device management commands
• Lecture summary

6. The AIX Queueing System

• Lecture objectives
• Queueing system concepts
• Queue configurations
• Components of the aix queueing system
• The qdaemon program
• The /etc/qconfig file
• Backend programs
• Adding a printer and queue
• Managing queues
• Queueing system files
• Correcting a configuration problem
• Using the queueing system
• Specifying the destination queue and printer
• Creating a batch queue
• Configuring a print server
• Configuring a print client
• Working with virtual printers
• Lecture summary
• Additional information

7. File System Basics

• Lecture objectives
• File types
• Ordinary files
• Inodes
• Directories
• Pathnames -- the big picture
• The global file system
• Physical file systems
• Virtual file systems
• Aix file system device names
• Mounting file systems
• Seeing what's mounted
• The /etc/filesystems file
• Unmounting file systems
• Mounting over a non-empty directory
• The fuser command
• Listing file systems
• File system groups
• Monitoring file system space -- the df command
• Files that grow
• Other file system commands
• Hard links
• Tracing hard links
• Symbolic links
• Additional information
• Lecture summary

8. The Journaled File System

• Lecture objectives
• Features of the journaled file system
• The structure of the jfs
• Data block access schemes
• Jfs control files
• The jfs log
• Creating a journaled file system
• Extending a journaled file system
• Removing a journaled file system
• Jfs data block fragmentation
• Setting the number of inodes
• File system defragmentation -- the defragfs command
• Additional information
• Lecture summary

9. The Logical Volume Manager

• Lecture objectives
• The aix disk i/o strategy
• Features of the logical volume manager
• Physical volumes
• Volume groups
• Physical partitions
• Logical volumes
• Logical partitions
• An introduction to mirroring
• The volume group descriptor area
• The rootvg
• Adding a physical volume to the system
• Creating a volume group
• Varying on a volume group
• Varying off a volume group
• Logical volume strategies
• Creating a logical volume
• Additional information
• Lecture summary

10. AIX Backup and Restore

• Lecture objectives
• Reasons for doing backups
• Types of backups
• Tools for backups and restores
• Archive files and tape drive attributes
• Tape device names
• Creating and using a stacked tape
• Restoring from a stacked tape
• Backing up the root volume group
• Restoring from a system image backup
• The backup command
• Backing up filesystems
• Backing up filesystems, cont.
• Filesystem backup strategy
• Restoring a filesystem
• Backing up individual files
• Additional information
• Lecture summary

11. AIX Backup and Restore

• Lecture objectives
• The aix boot process
• The configuration manager
• Run levels
• The /etc/inittab file
• Start-up shell scripts
• The /sbin/rc.boot file
• Changing run levels
• The init command
• Halting the system
• The shutdown command
• Lecture summary

12. Basic AIX Problem Determination

• Lecture objectives
• Aix problem determination
• The operator panel
• The aix boot process
• Potential boot problems
• The problem solving guide
• Booting the system in service mode
• Hardware diagnostics
• The error log
• Error reports
• Cleaning the error log
• System dumps
• Lecture summary