AIX System Administration I: Implementation

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Description:

Learn to install, customize, and administer the AIX operating system in a multiuser environment using System p server. This course is based on AIX 6.1, but is also appropriate for prior releases of AIX.

Audience:

This is an intermediate course is for anyone responsible for the system administrative duties implementing and managing an AIX operating system on an System p server.

Objectives:

On completion of this course, you should be able to:

• Install the AIX operating system, software bundles, and filesets
• Perform system startup and shutdown
• Understand and use the system management tools
• Manage physical and logical devices
• Perform 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
• Describe basic networking concepts

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 taking AIX Basics (AU131) or (AU130) or through equivalent AIX/UNIX knowledge.

Topics:

Day 1

• Welcome
• Unit 1 - Introduction to System p/AIX system administration
• Activity: su
• Unit 2- System Management Interface Tool (SMIT)
• Exercise: Using SMIT
• Unit 3 - System startup and shutdown
• Exercise: System startup and shutdown
• Unit 4- AIX Software installation and maintenance
• Exercise: AIX software installation
• Unit 5 - AIX 6 installation
• Exercise: AIX installation and Configuration Assistant
• Unit 6 - Web-based System Manager
• Exercise: Configuring Web-based System Manager server

Day 2

• Unit 7 - Devices
• Exercise: Devices
• Unit 8 - System storage overview
• Activity: LVM commands
• Unit 9 - Working with the Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
• Activity: Volume groups
• Exercise: Logical Volume Manager
• Unit 10 - Working with file systems
• Activity: Inodes and NBPI

Day 3

• Unit 10 - Working with file systems (continued)
• Exercise: Working with file systems
• Unit 11 - Managing file systems
• Exercise: Managing file systems
• Unit 12 - Paging space
• Exercise: Paging space
• Unit 13 - Backup and restore
• Activity: savevg
• Exercise - Using backup and restore

Day 4

• Unit 13 - Backup and restore (continued)
• Exercise (optional) - Using tar and cpio
• Unit 14 - Security and user administration
• Exercise: Security files
• Exercise: User administration
• Activity: Examine the security files
• Unit 15 - Scheduling
• Exercise: Scheduling

Day 5

• Unit 16 - Printers and queues
• Exercise: Printers and queues
• Unit 17 - Networking overview
• Exercise: Networking