Kurs informasjon: AIX 6 Jumpstart for UNIX Professionals

Learn to install, customize and administer the AIX operating system in a multi-user POWER (System p) partitioned environment.

The course is based on AIX 6.1 running on a Power system managed by Hardware Management Console version 7 and provides practical discussions that are appropriate to earlier AIX releases.

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Roadmaps:

• Server Consolidation/Migration for AIX
• AIX Users and System Administration

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Provide focused training for experienced UNIX administrators on how to install, customize and administer the AIX operating system in a multiuser POWER (System p) partitioned environment. The course is based on AIX 6.1 running on a Power system managed by Hardware Management Console version 7 and provides practical discussions that are appropriate to earlier AIX releases.

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This intermediate course is appropriate for experienced UNIX system administrators who want to support AIX running on POWER processor based systems in a mult-iuser POWER (System p) partitioned environment.

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Students should be able to use basic UNIX commands including:

• Execute basic AIX commands
• Manage files and directories
• Use the vi editor
• Use redirection, pipes, and tees
• Use the utilities find and grep
• Use command and variable substitution
• Set and change Korn shell variables
• Write simple shell scripts

These skills can be acquired by attending AIX Basics (AU13) or through equivalent AIX/UNIX knowledge.

Students should also have experience administering a UNIX operating system (such as Solaris, HP/UX, and others) including:

• User management and system security
• Storage
• Networking
• System shutdown and restart
• Backup and recovery
• System task scheduling

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• Install the AIX operating system, filesets, and RedHat Package Manager (RPM) packages
• Perform system startup and shutdown
• Discuss and use system management tools such as System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) and IBM systems director console for AIX
• Manage physical and logical devices
• Discuss the purpose of the logical volume manager
• Perform logical volume and file system management
• Perform and restore system backups
• Use the AIX error log as a tool in problem determination
• Configure TCP/IP networking

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Day 1

• Unit 1: Introduction to AIX and IBM Power systems
• Exercise 1
• Unit 2: AIX system management tools
• Exercise 2
• Unit 3: AIX software installation and maintenance
• Exercise 3
• Unit 4: System configuration and devices
• Exercise 4
• Unit 5: TCP/IP networking
• Exercise 5
• Unit 6: System startup and shutdown

Day 2

• Exercise 6
• Unit 7: Basics of configuring logical partitions
• Exercise 7
• Unit 8: AIX installation
• Exercise 8
• Unit 9: Working with Logical Volume Manager
• Exercise 9

Day 3

• Unit 10: File systems administration
• Exercise 10
• Unit 11: Backup and restore
• Exercise 11
• Unit 12: The Object Data Manager
• Exercise 12
• Unit 13: Error monitoring
• Exercise 13

Day 4

• Unit 14: System initialization - I
• Exercise 14
• Unit 15: System initialization - II
• Exercise 15
• Unit 16: LVM metadata
• Exercise 16
• Unit 17: Disk management procedures
• Exercise 17
• Unit 18: The AIX system dump facility

Day 5

• Exercise 18
• Unit 19: Advanced install techniques
• Unit 19 part 1: alternate disk utilities
• Exercise 19: alternate disk - part 1
• Unit 19 part II: multibos
• Exercise 19: alternate disk - part 2
• Exercise 19: multibos
• Unit 20: Survey of additional AIX facilities

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