IBM AIX: System Administration: Part 2 of 2

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Course Overview

The object of this training course is:

• To provide attendees with the additional knowledge required to closely monitor the performance and optimally tune an AIX based system.
• To satisfactorily cope with the day to day monitoring of a multi-user AIX site and be able to identify performance issues and devise strategies to overcome them.

Audience

This course is for experienced AIX System Administrators, or delegates who have recently attended the course AIX System Administration Part 1.

Prerequisites

Delegates should have a good basic understanding of AIX System Administration gained through at least three months practical experience and should have attended the AIX System Administration Part 1 course.

Course Outline

Introduction to AIX Systems Administration Part 2

• An Operating System
• Performance Monitoring
• Tuning
• Optimisation
• Workload
• Nothing in Isolation
• Objective Performance
• System Types
• Site Specific Systems
• The Global Picture
• Performance Related Areas
• The Kernel

CPU and Process Monitoring

• Processes
• Some System Processes
• Timing Commands
• The Timex Command
• Scheduler
• Priorities
• Real Time Processes
• Allocating Priority
• Changing Priority
• The uptime Command
• The w Command
• The iostat Command
• The vmstat Command
• Data Collection Utilities
• Collecting System Activity Data
• Producing System Activity Reports
• Monitoring CPU Activity
• Examining Process Queue Activity
• Monitoring System Call Activity
• Resource utilisation by completed processes
• Improving CPU Performance
• The sched o command

Virtual Memory Manager

• Page-Replacement Algorithm
• Paging Space
• List Page Space
• Add Page Space
• Change Paging Space Characteristics
• Remove Page Space
• Virtual Memory Statistics
• Display current state of Virtual Memory
• Monitoring Virtual Memory Activity
• Reduced Memory System Simulator
• Using rmss to run a command over a range of memory sizes
• Improving Virtual Memory Management
• Using the vmo command to change kernel characteristics

Logical Volume Management

• Vary-on and Vary-off
• Disk Access Times
• Mirroring
• Scheduling Policies
• Disk Allocation Policies
• Inter-Physical Volume Allocation Policy
• Intra-Physical Volume Allocation Policy
• Listing Physical Volumes
• Listing Logical Volumes
• The iostat Command
• Monitoring the performance of the file system
• Displaying placement of file's blocks
• Monitoring File System Activity
• Future Directions

Appendix A

• UNIX Accounting System
• Logical Volume Manager Commands