AIX Training : IBM AIX Systems Administration

IBM AIX Systems Administration

AIX Training Overview

This course will teach the commands and methods needed to setup and manage IBM AIX systems. The course will also use a problem solving approach in the lab exercises to teach system managers advanced topics, for long-term mangement goals.

Systems: IBM AIX, running on RS/6000 or Power4 configurations.

AIX Training Prerequisites

It is assumed that the student has successfully completed the Fundamentals of IBM AIX:Getting Started course, or has equivalent system time as a user.

AIX Training Course duration

This course normally requires five (5) days, approximately 60% lecture, and 40% lab time.

AIX Training Course Objectives

On completion of this course, a system manager should be able to install, update, and boot the IBM AIX operating system; set up user accounts and directories; prepare queues for use; perform backups for integrity and performance reasons; monitor the system for performance and do basic setup of network software and capabilities.

AIX Training Course outline

Advanced System Concepts for System Administrators

Process concepts
Shell command usage and review
Optimizing system help information
System administrator functions
Using the root account
Using the smit graphical and non-graphical interfaces
Manipulating system default environment files

System Installation and Updating

Installation types and methods
Installing the AIX operating systems
Upgrading to a newer version of AIX
Maintaining the system via patches
Adding additional products to the system (lpp)
Reconfiguring the AIX kernels via parameters

Startup and Shutdown

Default bootstrap
Boot to single-user mode
Startup methods and procedures
Adding procedures to the startup mechanism
Shutdown methods and control

Managing of System Users

UID and GID concepts
Creation of a user account
Security through password aging
Login sequence

Managing Printer Queues

Creation of an execution print queue
Commands to manipulate queues
Commands to manipulate jobs in queues

Managing Disk and Tape Volumes

Commands to manipulate disks/filesystems
- creating volume groups and logical volumes
- creating file systems (crfs and mkfs)
- manipulating file system structures
- verifying file system structures with fsck
- making file systems available to software (mount)
Commands to manipulate archival volumes:
- tar utility
- cpio utility
- backup and restore utilities

Monitoring System Activity

Informational Utilities
The vmstat utility
The iostat utility
The sar utility
The netstat utility
Maintaining swap and paging space(s)
Building and using the top facility

Maintaining System Integrity

Using cron tables

Network Setup and Configuration

TCP/IP address selection
Host names and related files
Configuring network devices
Network testing with ping
Network utilities: telnet, rlogin, rcp, rsh