Power Systems

AN14G : AIX Jumpstart for UNIX Professionals

Course Duration

5 Days

Delivery

ILT/VILT

Overview

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Provide focused training for experienced UNIX administrators on how to install, customize, and administer the AIX operating system in a multiuser POWER (System p) partitioned environment. The course is based on AIX 7.1 running on a Power system managed by Hardware Management Console version 7 and provides practical discussions that are appropriate to earlier AIX releases.

What You'll Learn

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
Perform and restore system backups
Use the AIX error log as a tool in problem determination
Configure TCP/IP networking

Who Should Attend

This intermediate course is appropriate for experienced UNIX system administrators who want to support AIX running on POWER processor based systems in a multiuser POWER (System p) partitioned environment.

Prerequisites

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

Learning Journey

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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

This course is not associated with any Certification.

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AN14G : AIX Jumpstart for UNIX Professionals

What You'll Learn

Who Should Attend

Prerequisites

Learning Journey

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Why get IBM certified?

What to expect for the examination?

How long is IBM certification valid for?

Why take this course with Trainocate?

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Training Schedule

Exam & Certification

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