Course 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)
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
Configure and conduct Live Kernel Updates on a running AIX LPAR
Who Should Attend?
This intermediate course is intended for system administrators or anyone implementing and managing an AIX operating system in a multiuser Power Systems partitioned environment.
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Agenda
1 - Day 1
- Welcome
- Unit 1: Introduction to IBM Power Systems, AIX, and system administration
- Exercise 1: Introduction to IBM Power Systems, AIX, and system administration
- Unit 2: AIX system management tools
- Exercise 2: Using system management tools in AIX
- Unit 3: System startup and shutdown
- Exercise 3: System startup and shutdown
- Unit 4: AIX installation
- Exercise 4: AIX installation
2 - Day 2
- Unit 5: AIX software installation and maintenance
- Exercise 5: AIX software installation and maintenance
- Unit 6: System configuration and devices
- Exercise 6: System configuration and devices
- Unit 7: System storage overview
- Exercise 7: System storage overview: LVM commands
- Unit 8: Working with the Logical Volume Manager
- Exercise 8: Working with LVM
3 - Day 3
- Unit 9: File systems administration
- Exercise 9: File system administration
- Unit 10: Paging space
- Exercise 10: Page space
- Unit 11: Backup and restore
- Exercise 11: Backup and restore
4 - Day 4
- Unit 12: Security and user administration: Part one
- Exercise 12: Security and user administration: Part one
- Unit 13: Security and user administration: Part two
- Exercise 13: Security and user administration: Part two
- Unit 14: Scheduling and time
- Exercise 14: Scheduling
- Unit 15: TCP/IP networking
5 - Day 5
- Unit 15: TCP/IP networking (continued)
- Exercise 15: TCP/IP networking
- Unit 16: Introduction to Workload Partitions
- Exercise 16: Workload Partitions