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AN12 IBM Power Systems for AIX II - AIX Implementation and Administration

Learn to install, customize, and administer the AIX operating system in a POWER (System p) partitioned environment. This course is based on AIX 7.1 running on a Power7 system managed by HMC version 7.

AN12 IBM Power Systems for AIX II - AIX Implementation and Administration

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Learning Objectives

Install and 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, paging space and file system management
  • Create and manage user administration
  • Manage AIX user security including enhanced RBAC and implement customized access of file and directories
  • Perform and restore system backups
  • Utilize administrative subsystems, including cron to schedule system tasks
  • Configure TCP/IP networking
  • Define and run basic Workload Partitions (WPAR)

     

    Course Details

    Course Outline

    1 - Day 1
  • Introduction to IBM POWER systems, AIX and system administration
  • AIX system management tools
  • System startup and shutdown
  • AIX installation
    • 2 - Day 2
  • AIX software installation and maintenance
  • System configuration and devices
  • System storage overview
  • Working with the Logical Volume Manager
    • 3 - Day 3
  • File systems administration
  • Paging space
  • Backup and restore
    • 4 - Day 4
  • Security and user administration: Part 1
  • Security and user administration: Part 2
  • Scheduling and time
  • TCP/IP networking
    • 5 - Day 5
  • TCP/IP networking (continued)
  • Introduction to workload partitions

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    Who is it For?

    Target Audience

    This is an intermediate course for anyone with system administrative duties implementing and managing an AIX operating system in a multiuser POWER (System p) partitioned environment.

    Prerequisites

    Other Prerequisites

    Log in to an AIX system and set a user password;

    Execute basic AIX commands;

    Manage files and directories;

    Use the vi editor;

    Use redirection, pipes, and tees;

    Use the utilities find and grep;

    Use the command and variable substitution;

    Set and change Korn shell variables;

    Write simple shell scripts;

    Use a graphic Common Desktop Environment (CDE) interface

    AN12 IBM Power Systems for AIX II - AIX Implementation and Administration

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    Course Length : 5 Days

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