AIX System Administration I: Implementation

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5 DAY DURATION
Course Code AU140 - AIX System Administration I: Implementation

This is an intermediate course is for anyone responsible for the system administrative duties implementing and managing an AIX operating system on a System p server.

On completion of this course, you should be able to:

  • Install the AIX operating system, software bundles, and filesets
  • Perform system startup and shutdown
  • Understand and use the system management tools
  • Manage physical and logical devices
  • Perform 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
  • Describe basic networking concepts

COURSE OUTLINE:
Day 1

  • Welcome
  • Unit 1 - Introduction to System p/AIX system administration
  • Activity: su
  • Unit 2- System Management Interface Tool (SMIT)
  • Exercise: Using SMIT
  • Unit 3 - System startup and shutdown
  • Exercise: System startup and shutdown
  • Unit 4- AIX Software installation and maintenance
  • Exercise: AIX software installation
  • Unit 5 - AIX 6 installation
  • Exercise: AIX installation and Configuration Assistant
  • Unit 6 - Web-based System Manager
  • Exercise: Configuring Web-based System Manager server

Day 2

  • Unit 7 - Devices
  • Exercise: Devices
  • Unit 8 - System storage overview
  • Activity: LVM commands
  • Unit 9 - Working with the Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
  • Activity: Volume groups
  • Exercise: Logical Volume Manager
  • Unit 10 - Working with file systems
  • Activity: Inodes and NBPI

Day 3

  • Unit 10 - Working with file systems (continued)
  • Exercise: Working with file systems
  • Unit 11 - Managing file systems
  • Exercise: Managing file systems
  • Unit 12 - Paging space
  • Exercise: Paging space
  • Unit 13 - Backup and restore
  • Activity: savevg
  • Exercise - Using backup and restore

Day 4

  • Unit 13 - Backup and restore (continued)
  • Exercise (optional) - Using tar and cpio
  • Unit 14 - Security and user administration
  • Exercise: Security files
  • Exercise: User administration
  • Activity: Examine the security files
  • Unit 15 - Scheduling
  • Exercise: Scheduling

Day 5

  • Unit 16 - Printers and queues
  • Exercise: Printers and queues
  • Unit 17 - Networking overview
  • Exercise: Networking