AN15 IBM Power Systems for AIX III - Advanced Administration and Problem Determination

5 Days

30 CPD hours

This is an advanced course for AIX system administrators, and system support individuals with at least six months of experience in AIX.

Perform system problem determination and reporting procedures including analyzing error logs, creating dumps of the system, and providing needed data to the AIX Support personnel Examine and manipulate Object Data Manager databases Identify and resolve conflicts between the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) disk structures and the Object Data Manager (ODM) Complete a very basic configuration of Network Installation Manager to provide network boot support for either system installation or booting to maintenance mode Identify various types of boot and disk failures and perform the matching recovery procedures Implement advanced methods such as alternate disk install, multibos, and JFS2 snapshots to use a smaller maintenance window

In this course, learn advanced AIX system administrator skills focusing on availability and problem determination and learn detailed knowledge of the ODM database where AIX maintains configuration information.

Day 1

• Advanced AIX administration overview
• The Object Data Manager
• Error monitoring

Day 2

• Network Installation Manager basics
• System initialization: Accessing a boot image

Day 3

• System initialization: rc.boot and inittab
• LVM metadata and related problems
• Disk management procedures

Day 4

• Disk management procedures (continued)
• Install and cloning techniques
• Advanced backup techniques

Day 5

• Advanced backup techniques (continued)
• Diagnostics
• The AIX system dump facility