AIX System Administration II: Problem Determination

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Description:

Build on your basic AIX system administrator skills and learn advanced topics to become a highly effective AIX system administrator. Develop and build advanced AIX system administrator skills, such as system problem determination, and learn to carry out the appropriate steps to fix problems. This course is based on AIX Version 6.1, but is also appropriate for prior releases of AIX.

Audience:

This is an advanced course for AIX system administrators, system support, and contract support individuals with at least six months of experience in AIX.

Objectives:

• Perform system problem determination procedures including running diagnostics, analyzing error logs, and carrying out dumps on the system
• Learn and practice recovery procedures for various types of boot and disk failures
• Examine disk management theory, a component of the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and Object Data Manager (ODM)
• Analyze basic performance to identify system bottlenecks and suggest corrective action

Prerequisites:

You should complete:

• AIX System Administration I: Implementation (AU140) or (Q1314)

or understand basic AIX system administration skills, including System Management Interface Tool (SMIT), using AIX documentation, device management, LVM, file systems, backup and recovery, and user administration.

Topics:

Day 1

• Welcome
• Unit 1 - Problem Determination Introduction
• Exercise 1 - Problem Determination Introduction
• Unit 2 - The Object Data Manager (ODM)
• Exercise 2 - The Object Data Manager (ODM)
• Unit 3 - System Initialization Part I
• Exercise 3 - System Initialization Part 1

Day 2

• Unit 4 - System Initialization Part II
• Exercise 4 - System Initialization Part 2
• Unit 5 - Disk Management Theory
• Exercise 5 - Fixing LVM-Related ODM Problems
• Exercise 6 - Mirroring rootvg

Day 3

• Unit 6 - Disk Management Procedures
• Exercise 7 - Exporting and Importing Volume Groups
• Unit 7 - Saving and Restoring Volume Groups and Online JFS/JFS2 Backups
• Exercise 8 - Saving and Restoring a User Volume Group
• Unit 8 - Error Log and syslogd
• Exercise 9 - Working with syslogd and errnotify

Day 4

• Unit 9 - Diagnostics
• Exercise 10 - Diagnostics
• Unit 10 - The AIX System Dump Facility
• Exercise 11 - System Dump
• Unit 11 Performance and Workload Management
• Exercise 12 - Basic Performance Commands
• Exercise 13 - Performance Diagnostic Tool

Day 5

• Unit 12 - Security
• Exercise 14 - Authentication and Access Control Lists