Objectives
- 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
- Create and manage user and group accounts
- Perform and restore system backups
- Utilize administrative subsystems, including cron to schedule system tasks, and security to implement customized access of files and directories
- Configure TCP/IP networking
- Define and run basic Workload Partitions (WPAR)
Audience
This intermediate course is intended for system administrators or anyone implementing and managing an AIX operating system in a multiuser Power Systems partitioned environment.
Prerequisites
You should already be able to:
- Log in to an AIX system and set a user password
- Execute basic AIX commands
- Manage files and directories
- Use the vi editor
- Use redirection, pipes, and tees
- Use the utilities find and grep
- Use the command and variable substitution
- Set and change Korn shell variables
- Write simple shell scripts
- Use a graphic Common Desktop Environment (CDE) interface
These skills can be acquired by attending AIX Basics (AN10G) or through equivalent AIX or UNIX knowledge. Also, it would be helpful (but not mandatory) if students were familiar with partitioning concepts and technology taught in Power Systems for AIX I: LPAR Configuration and Planning (AN11G).
Duration
Five days.
Outline for POWER SYSTEMS FOR AIX II AIX IMPLEMENTATION AND ADMINISTRATION Training
Chapter 1. Introduction to IBM Power Systems, AIX, and system administration
Exercise 1: Introduction to IBM Power Systems, AIX, and system administration
Chapter 2. AIX system management tools
Exercise 2: Using system management tools in AIX
Chapter 3. System startup and shutdown
Exercise 3: System startup and shutdown
Chapter 4. AIX installation
Exercise 4: AIX installation
Chapter 5. AIX software installation and maintenance
Exercise 5: AIX software installation and maintenance
Chapter 6. System configuration and devices
Exercise 6: System configuration and devices
Chapter 7. System storage overview
Exercise 7: System storage overview: LVM commands
Chapter 8. Working with the Logical Volume Manager
Exercise 8: Working with LVM
Chapter 9. File systems administration
Exercise 9: File system administration
Chapter 10. Paging space
Exercise 10: Page space
Chapter 11. Backup and restore
Exercise 11: Backup and restore
Chapter 12. Security and user administration: Part one
Exercise 12. Security and user administration: Part one
Chapter 13. Security and user administration: Part two
Exercise 13: Security and user administration: Part two
Chapter 14. Scheduling and time
Exercise 14: Scheduling
Chapter 15. TCP/IP networking
Exercise 15: TCP/IP networking
Chapter 16. Introduction to Workload Partitions
Exercise 16: Workload Partitions