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AN12MY - Power Systems for AIX II- AIX Implementation and Administration

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Duration

5 days

Course Overview

Learn to install, customize, and administer the AIX operating system in a POWER (System p) partitioned environment. This course is based on AIX 7.1 running on a Power7 system managed by HMC version 7. This course is also appropriate for prior releases of AIX and has a high practical content.

Audience

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

Pre-requisites

You should already be able to:

  • Log in to an AIX system and set a user password
  • Execute basic AIX commands
  • Manage files and directories
  • Use the vi editor
  • Use redirection, pipes, and tees
  • Use the utilities find and grep
  • Use the command and variable substitution
  • Set and change Korn shell variables
  • Write simple shell scripts
  • Use a graphic Common Desktop Environment (CDE) interface

These skills can be acquired by taking AIX Basics (AN10MY) or (AX100MY) or through equivalent AIX or UNIX knowledge. Also, it would be helpful, but not mandatory if students were familiar with partitioning concepts and technology taught in Power Systems for AIX I: LPAR Configuration and Planning (AN11MY).

Objective

  • 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)

Key topics

Day 1

  • Welcome
  • (01:00) Unit 1: Introduction to IBM Power Systems, AIX, and system administration
  • Exercise 1
  • (01:00) Unit 2: AIX system management tools
  • Exercise 2
  • (01:00) Unit 3: System startup and shutdown
  • Exercise 3
  • (01:00) Unit 4: AIX installation
  • Exercise 4

Day 2

  • (01:15) Unit 5: AIX software installation and maintenance
  • Exercise 5
  • (00:45) Unit 6: System configuration and devices
  • Exercise 6
  • (00:45) Unit 7: System storage overview
  • Exercise 7
  • (01:30) Unit 8: Working with the Logical Volume Manager
  • Exercise 8

Day 3

  • (01:30) Unit 9: File systems administration
  • Exercise 9
  • (0:30) Unit 10: Paging space
  • Exercise 10
  • (01:00) Unit 11: Backup and restore
  • Exercise 11

Day 4

  • (01:30) Unit 12: Security and user administration
  • Exercise 12
  • (00:30) Unit 13: Scheduling
  • Exercise 13
  • (01:30) Unit 14: TCP/IP networking

Day 5

  • Exercise 14
  • (01:30) Unit 15: Introduction to workload partitions
  • Exercise 15

*Systems Power8 Physical Connectivity to be featured on course

This is a version-specific reference outline. Confirm the current syllabus and delivery arrangements with EIEIO.