Duration
3 days
Course Description
This course is intended to provide you with an introduction to managing Power Systems using the IBM Systems Director 6.3 product. Hands-on exercises will reinforce the lecture and give you experience installing and configuring the IBM Systems Director 6.3 management server on a Power System partition running AIX. In addition, you will perform select management tasks on Power Systems managed endpoints in the lab environment.
Audience
This intermediate course is for anyone responsible for implementing and managing a virtualized infrastructure on Power-based systems. The audience for this training includes AIX system administrators, systems operators, and system architects.
Prerequisites
Before attending this course, students should have experience:
- A basic background in UNIX systems administration and troubleshooting.
At Course Completion
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Describe the IBM Systems Director 6.3 system management environment
- List the components that comprise an IBM Systems Director 6.3 systems management environment
- Define the steps to install IBM Systems Director 6.3 onto a management server
- Define the steps to install IBM Systems Director common agent onto select managed endpoints
- Install IBM Systems Director 6.3 on to a management server running AIX
- Install IBM Systems Director common agent on to Power System and Power Blade managed endpoints
- Perform select administrative tasks using IBM Systems Director 6.3 on Power Systems managed endpoints
- List key problem determination procedures to follow with IBM Systems Director 6.3 systems management environment
Day 1
- Welcome
- Exercise 1: Introduction to the lab environment
- Exercise 2: Installing IBM Systems Director 6.3
Day 2
- Exercise 3: IBM Systems Director 6.3 tasks
- Exercise 4: Automation Manager
Day 3
- Exercise 5: Update Manager
- Exercise 6: Power Systems management techniques
- Exercise 7: Problem determination
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.