AN12G - Power Systems for AIX II: AIX Implementation and Administration

Overview

Duration: 5 days

Learn to install, customize, and administer the AIX operating system in a multiuser Power Systems partitioned environment. The course is based on AIX 7.1 running on a Power Systems server managed by Hardware Management Console and provides practical discussions that are appropriate to earlier AIX releases.

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)

Content

Day 1

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

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

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

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

Day 5

Unit 15: TCP/IP networking (continued)
Exercise 15: TCP/IP networking
Unit 16: Introduction to Workload Partitions
Exercise 16: Workload Partitions

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

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) through equivalent AIX
UNIX knowledge.

Also, it would be helpful (but not mandatory) if students were familiar with partitioning concepts technology taught in Power Systems for AIX I: LPAR Configuration and Planning (AN11G)

Certification

This course is not associated with any Certification.

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