AN14G
AIX Jumpstart for UNIX Professionals Training
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 7.1 running on a Power system managed by Hardware Management Console version 7 and provides practical discussions that are appropriate to earlier AIX releases.
Course Details
Duration
5 days
Prerequisites
You should be able to use basic UNIX commands to:
The above skills can be acquired by attending AIX Basics (AU130) or (AN100) or through equivalent AIX/UNIX knowledge.
In addition, you are expected to have hands-on experience administering a UNIX operating system (such as Solaris, HP/UX, and others) including:User management and system security
- 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
The above skills can be acquired by attending AIX Basics (AU130) or (AN100) or through equivalent AIX/UNIX knowledge.
In addition, you are expected to have hands-on 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
Target Audience
Experienced UNIX system administrators who need training to support their transition to supporting AIX running on POWER processor based systems in a multiuser POWER (System p) partitioned environment
Skills Gained
- 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 Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) networking
Course Outline
- Introduction to AIX and IBM Power systems
- AIX system management tools
- AIX software installation and maintenance
- System configuration and devices
- TCP/IP networking
- System startup and shutdown
- Basics of configuring logical partitions
- AIX installation
- Working with the Logical Volume Manager
- File systems administration
- The Object Data Manager
- LVM metadata
- Disk management procedures
- Backup and restore
- Error monitoring
- System initialization
- The AIX system dump facility
- Topic 1: Alternate disk installation
- Topic 2: Using multibos
