Format

Classroom

Duration

7.0 Day(s)

Description

The purpose of this course is to add to the system administrator's skills in determining the cause of a problem and carrying out the appropriate steps to fix the problem. Also, there is heavy emphasis on customizing the system.

Audience

This course is targeted for system administrators with at least three months experience in AIX and with other relevant education.

Prerequisites

o Be familiar with the basic tools and commands in AIX. These include vi, SMIT, the Web-based documentation, and other commonly used commands, such as grep, find, mail, chmod and ls
o Perform basic file manipulation and navigation of the file system
o Define basic file system and LVM terminology
o Carry out basic system installation activities including basic setup of printers, disks, terminals, users and software
o Create and kill processes, prioritize them, and change their environment via profiles

Objectives

On completion of this course, students should be able to:
o Perform problem determination and analyze the problem by performing the relevant steps, such as running diagnostics, analyzing the error logs and carrying out dumps on the system

Contents

o RS/600 Hardware
o The ODM
o System Initialization
o Disk Management Theory
o Disk Management Procedures
o Saving and Restoring Volume Groups
o Error Log and syslogd
o Diagnostics
o The AIX System Dump Facility
o Performance and Workload Management
o Security (Auditing, Authentication and ACLs, TCB)