AN12G

Power Systems for AIX II: AIX Implementation and Administration

Power Systems for AIX II: Implementing and operating an AIX system
Form of participation
Form of training
Length of training
  • 4 day (4×8 Lessons)
  • daily 9:00 - 17:00
Available languages
  • Hungarian
Dates

Training price

1 070 000 Ft
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Description

This is an intermediate course for anyone with system administrative duties implementing and managing an AIX operating system in a multiuser POWER (System p) partitioned environment.

Learn to install, customize, and administer the AIX operating system in a multiuser POWER (System p) partitioned environment. This course is based on AIX 6.1 running on a Power6 system managed by HMC version 7. This course is also appropriate for prior releases of AIX and has a high practical content.

There is also an instructor-led online version of this course: Power Systems for AIX II: AIX Implementation and Administration (ILO) (AX120)

After completing this course, students should be able to accomplish the following:

  • 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
  • Implement Workload Partitions (WPAR)

Outline

Day 1

  • Unit 1: Introduction to IBM POWER systems, AIX and system administration
  • Exercise 1
  • Unit 2: AIX system management tools
  • Exercise 2
  • Unit 3: System startup and shutdown
  • Exercise 3
  • Unit 4: AIX installation
  • Exercise 4

Day 2

  • Unit 5: AIX software installation and maintenance
  • Exercise 5
  • Unit 6: System configuration and devices
  • Exercise 6
  • Unit 7: System storage overview
  • Exercise 7
  • Unit 8: Working with the Logical Volume Manager
  • Exercise 8

Day 3

  • Unit 9: File systems administration
  • Exercise 9
  • Unit 10: Paging space
  • Exercise 10
  • Unit 11: Backup and restore
  • Exercise 11

Day 4

  • Unit 12: Security and user administration
  • Exercise 12
  • Unit 13: Scheduling
  • Exercise 13
  • Unit 14: TCP/IP networking
  • Exercise 14
  • Unit 15: Introduction to workload partitions
  • Exercise 15
Outline (PDF)

Prerequisites

AIX operational knowledge and practice. Completion of the AIX Basics course AN10G or equivalent. Completion or knowledge of the Power Systems for AIX I: LPAR Configuration and Planning course, code AN11G, is useful. As the training material is in English, a basic level of English at document reading level is recommended to effectively process the training material. The training is conducted in Hungarian.