Audience
This is an advanced course for AIX system administrators and, system support individuals with at least six months of experience in AIX.
Pre-requisites
You should complete:
AIX System Administration I: Implementation (AU14) or understand basic AIX system administration skills, including System Management Interface Tool (SMIT), using
AIX documentation, device management, LVM, file systems, backup and recovery, and user administration.
Objective
Perform system problem determination procedures including running diagnostics, analyzing error logs, and carrying out dumps on the system
Learn and practice recovery procedures for various types of boot and disk failures
Examine disk management theory, a component of the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and Object Data
Manager (ODM)
Analyze basic performance to identify system bottlenecks and suggest corrective action
Key topics
Day 1
Welcome
Exercise 1 - Problem Determination Introduction
Exercise 2 - The Object Data Manager (ODM)
Exercise 3 - System Initialization Part 1
Day 2
Exercise 4 - System Initialization Part 2
Exercise 5 - Fixing LVM-Related ODM Problems
Exercise 6 - Mirroring rootvg
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Day 3
Exercise 7 - Exporting and Importing Volume Groups
Exercise 8 - Saving and Restoring a User Volume Group
Exercise 9 - Working with syslogd and errnotify
Day 4
Exercise 10 - Diagnostics
Exercise 11 - System Dump
Exercise 12 - Basic Performance Commands
Exercise 13 - Performance Diagnostic Tool
Day 5
Exercise 14 - Authentication and Access Control Lists
This is a version-specific reference outline. Confirm the current syllabus and delivery arrangements with EIEIO.