Course Outline

Day 1


Unit 1: Introduction to AIX and IBM Power systems

• Exercise 1: Introduction to AIX and IBM Power systems

Unit 2: AIX system management tools

• Exercise 2: Using system management tools in AIX

Unit 3: AIX software installation and maintenance

• Exercise 3: AIX software installation and maintenance

Unit 4: System configuration and devices

• Exercise 4: System configuration and devices

 Day 2 


Unit 5: TCP/IP networking

• Exercise 5: TCP/IP implementation

Unit 6: System startup and shutdown

• Exercise 6: System startup and shutdown

Unit 7: Basics of configuring logical partitions

• Exercise 7: Configuring logical partitions

Unit 8: AIX installation

• Exercise 8: AIX installation

Unit 9: Working with the Logical Volume Manager

• Exercise 9 : Working with LVM

 Day 3


Unit 10: File systems administration

• Exercise 10: File systems administration

Unit 11: The Object Data Manager

• Exercise 11: The Object Data Manager

Unit 12: LVM metadata

• Exercise 12: LVM metadata issues

Unit 13: Disk management procedures

• Exercise 13: Disk management procedures

Day 4

Unit 14: Backup and restore

• Exercise 14: Backup and restore

Unit 15: Error monitoring

• Exercise 15: Error monitoring

Unit 16: System initialization - I

• Exercise 16: System initialization - I (Parts 1-3)

Day 5 

• Exercise 16: System initialization - I (Part 4)

Unit 17: System initialization - II

• Exercise 17: System initialization - II

Unit 18: The AIX system dump facility

• Exercise 18: System dump

Unit 19, Topic 1: Alternate disk installation

• Exercise 19,Topic 1: Alternate Dis

Unit 19, Topic 2: Using multibos

• Exercise 19: Topic 2: multibos

Optional Appendix A: Survey of additional AIX facilities
Optional Appendix B: Printers and queues

You should be able to use basic UNIX commands including:

• 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 6 Basics (AN100) or through equivalent AIX/UNIX knowledge.

You should also have 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