IBM AIX: System Administration: Part 1 of 2

Somerset

Bath (BA1)

07/06/10

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1,100

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19/07/10

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1,100

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Worcester (WR1)

05/05/10

£

995

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Course Overview

The course will allow the delegate to understand the roles of a system administrator and use the SMIT administration tool to administer AIX 5.3 Essential system administration duties will be covered. At the end of the course the student will understand user and group issues, implement secure policies under AIX, and manage all aspects of printer administration. This course covers AIX versions 4.3.X & 5.X .

Audience

Those who need to expand their basic knowledge of AIX to enable them to successfully administer AIX in a multi-user environment.

Prerequisites

Delegates should have attended our Unix Introduction course or equivalent. They should be able to login to an AIX system and execute basic AIX commands, manage files and directories, use the vi editor, use redirection, pipes and tees, use utilities find and grep, use command and variable substitution and set Korn Shell variables.

Course Outline

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION

• System Management Interface Tool
• smit Main Menu
• smit Log Files
• smit Options
• Fast paths
• wsm - Web Based System Manager

USER AND GROUP ADMINISTRATION

• User Accounts
• Adding New Users
• User Administration via smit
• Listing User Characteristics
• Changing User Characteristics
• Removing User Accounts
• Group Management
• Admin Groups ("Supergroups")
• Updating Passwords
• The User Environment
• User Templates

AIX SECURITY

• Why Security?
• Security Files
• Log Files

DEVICE MANAGEMENT

• Hardware Overview
• Devices under AIX
• The Object Database Manager
• Interrogating the ODM
• Device States
• Location Codes
• SCSI Devices

LOGICAL VOLUME MANAGER

• AIX Directory Layout
• Filesystems
• LVM terminology
• Device Files for Logical Volume Manager
• Volume Group Management
• Logical Volume Management

FILE SYSTEMS

• Physical and Logical Storage Review
• Filesystems
• JFS File System Structure
• The JFS2 File System
• Creating New Filesystems
• Mounting Filesystems
• Unmounting Filesystems
• Filesystems Mounted at Boot

FILE SYSTEM MAINTENANCE

• Introduction
• Monitoring Disk Usage
• Increasing Filesystems
• Fixing Broken Filesystems
• Paging Space

STARTING AND STOPPING THE SYSTEM

• Booting the System
• The bootlist Command
• The Normal Boot Process
• Run Levels
• The inittab File
• Typical Boot Sequence
• System Resource Controller
• Shutting Down the System

JOB SCHEDULING

• Timing and Scheduling
• Regular Job Scheduling
• Limiting Access to crontab

BACKUP AND RESTORE

• Why Back Up?
• Tape Devices
• The backup Command
• The restore Command
• Savevg/restvg
• Creating a Bootable Tape: mksysb
• Tape Control
• The cpio Command
• The tar Command
• The dd Command

PRINTING UNDER AIX

• Maintaining Printers
• Real and Virtual Printers
• Commands for Using Queues
• Adding a Physical Printer Device
• Adding a Local Queue and Physical Printer
• Changing a Print Queue
• Remote Printing
• Network Printers

SOFTWARE INSTALLATION

• Software Offerings
• Fileset Naming and Version Numbers
• Patching Software (instfix)
• Installing Linux Software (rpm)