AN14 IBM AIX Jumpstart for UNIX Professionals

5 Days

30 CPD hours

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

At course completion, you will be able to:- 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

Students will learn to install, customize and administer the AIX operating system in a multi-user POWER (System p) partitioned environment.

• Introduction to AIX and IBM Power systems
• AIX system management tools
• AIX software installation and maintenance
• System configuration and devices

• TCP/IP networking
• System startup and shutdown
• Basics of configuring logical partitions
• AIX installation
• Working with the Logical Volume Manager

• File systems administration
• The Object Data Manager
• LVM metadata
• Disk management procedures

• Backup and restore
• Error monitoring
• System initialization - I

• System initialization - II
• (00:35) Exercise 17
• (00:25) Unit 18: The AIX system dump facility
• (00:15) Exercise 18
• Advanced install techniques
• Alternate disk installation
• Alternate disk - part 1 (pre-clone)
• Using multibos
• Alternate disk - part 2 (post-clone)
• multibos
• Appendix A: Survey of additional AIX facilities