IBM HACMP System Administration II: Administration and Problem Determination

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Course Overview

This course is designed to teach experienced HACMP professionals the latest features in HACMP. It covers how to:

• Effectively administer and monitor a IBM HACMP cluster
• Implement HACMP's more complex advanced configuration options
• Carry out problem determination

This course includes hands on labs.

This training may be available onsite; please contact us if you are interested.

Audience

This course is designed for experienced AIX system administrators and support personnel who will be responsible for the administration, maintenance, and implementation of HACMP clusters on IBM System p systems running AIX.

This audience will include:

• Students who want to learn the new features with HACMP v5
• Students who wish to learn about how to implement HACMP in complex configurations
• Students who wish to pass the IBM Certified Systems Expert HACMP v5
• Technical leaders responsible for designing HACMP clustering solutions

Note: This course is not suitable for students with no prior knowledge of AIX or HACMP who want to go from novice to expert in 5 days.

Examinations

This course will prepare you for the following exams and certification tracks shown. Please note that the exam may not be included in the price shown: please contact us to check.

IBM® Certification Tracks  »
    IBM® Exams  »
       Exam 237: pSeries HACMP for AIX 5L

Prerequisites

Students should have experience with installing and performing standard HACMP configuration functions, which can be obtained through the following course (or equivalent experience):

• HACMP System Administration I: Planning and Implementation (AU54)

Note: AU54 is a mandatory prerequisite.

Students should also be familiar with:

• The AIX operating system.
• The IBM server hardware which they are using
• The principles of good system management
• TCP/IP communications concepts and tools, as covered in AIX 5L TCP/IP I: Configuring (AU07GB)
• LVM concepts and configuration, as covered in AIX System Administration I: Implementation (AU14GB), and AIX System Administration II: Problem Determination (AU16GB)
• Good Korn Shell script programming

Course Outline

The objectives of this class are to review HACMP fundamental concepts, components, and new features. Students will gain advanced information that will be vital when building and/or administering complex HA configurations.

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

• Review fundamental HACMP concepts and components
• Understand what is new with HACMP v5.4.1
• Use the more complex extended path configuration options
• Determine the status of the cluster and cluster components
• Integrate applications into HACMP
• Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) v5.3 Server (exercise is optional)
• Grumpy application
• Enhance security in a highly available cluster
• Implement AIX IPSec VPN and HACMP message authentication and encryption
• Perform problem determination on an HACMP cluster:
• Application problems
• LVM configuration problems
• Networking and RSCT configuration problems
• Event script problems

IBM HACMP System Administration II: Administration and Problem Determination / IBM-AU61 (IBM-AU61GB)