Duration
3 days
Course Description
This course is designed to teach experienced PowerHA for AIX professionals the latest features in PowerHA for AIX. It covers how to:
- Carry out problem determination
Audience
This course is designed for experienced AIX system administrators and support personnel who will be responsible for the troubleshooting of PowerHA for AIX clusters on IBM Systems running AIX. This audience will include:
- Students who want to develop the skills needed to support and troubleshoot PowerHA for AIX v5 clusters
- Students who wish to pass the IBM Certified Systems Expert PowerHA for AIX v5
- Technical leaders responsible for designing PowerHA for AIX clustering solutions
Note: This course is not suitable for students with no prior knowledge of AIX or PowerHA for AIX who want to go from novice to expert in 5 days.
Pre-requisites
Students should have experience with installing and performing standard PowerHA for AIX configuration functions, which can be obtained through the following course (or equivalent experience):
- AN41: PowerHA for AIX I: Implementation, Configuration and Administration
- AN41 is a mandatory prerequisite.
Students should also be familiar with:
- The AIX operating system.
- The IBM server hardware which they are using
- The principles of good system management
- TCP/IP communications concepts and tools, as covered in AU07
- LVM concepts and configuration, as covered in AU14, and AU16
- Good Korn Shell script programming
Course Objective
The objectives of this class are to review PowerHA for AIX fundamental concepts, to provide problem determination skills, and an workshop where those skills can be honed.
On completion of this course, students should be able to:
- Review fundamental PowerHA for AIX concepts and components
- Integrate and troubleshoot applications in PowerHA for AIX cluster
- "Grumpy" application
- Perform problem determination on an PowerHA for AIX cluster:
- Application problems
- LVM configuration problems
- Networking and RSCT configuration problems
- Event script problems
Day 1
- Exercise 1: Cluster Tools / Failures and logs
- Exercise 2: Application and Event script problems
Day 2
- Exercise 2: Application and Event script problems (cont)
- Exercise 3: LVM configuration problems
Day 3
- Exercise 4: Network and RSCT problems
- Open lab time
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.