IBM AIX: System Administration II: Problem Determination

Bristol

Yate (BS37)

17/05/10

£

1,850

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Course Overview

This course is designed to develop AIX problem determination and solution skills. A variety of system problems will be generated, the attendee will then perform system recovery using standard AIX tools. Build on your basic AIX system administrator skills and learn advanced topics to become a highly effective AIX system administrator. This course is based on AIX Version 6.1, but is also appropriate for prior releases of AIX.

This course includes hands on labs. This course has been classified as IT Technical Training.

Audience

This course is for support staff and administrators of AIX. This is an advanced course for AIX system administrators, system support, and contract support individuals with at least six months of experience in AIX.

Skills Gained

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

• Perform system problem determination procedures including running diagnostics, analyzing error logs, and carrying out dumps on the system
• Learn and practice recovery procedures for various types of boot and disk failures
• Examine disk management theory, a component of the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and Object Data Manager (ODM)
• Analyze basic performance to identify system bottlenecks and suggest corrective action

Prerequisites

A working knowledge of AIX including one editor, shell programming and system administration tasks such as adding users, devices and filesystems.

• AIX Basics (AU13GB)
• AIX System Administration I: Implementation (AU14GB)

Course Outline

Unit 1 - Problem Determination Introduction

• Exercise 1 - Problem Determination Introduction

Unit 2 - The Object Data Manager (ODM)

• Exercise 2 - The Object Data Manager (ODM)

Unit 3 - System Initialization Part I

• Exercise 3 - System Initialization Part 1

Unit 4 - System Initialization Part II

• Exercise 4 - System Initialization Part 2

Unit 5 - Disk Management Theory

• Exercise 5 - Fixing LVM-Related ODM Problems
• Exercise 6 - Mirroring rootvg

Unit 6 - Disk Management Procedures

• Exercise 7 - Exporting and Importing Volume Groups

Unit 7 - Saving and Restoring Volume Groups and Online JFS/JFS2 Backups

• Exercise 8 - Saving and Restoring a User Volume Group

Unit 8 - Error Log and syslogd

• Exercise 9 - Working with syslogd and errnotify

Unit 9 - Diagnostics

• Exercise 10 - Diagnostics

Unit 10 - The AIX System Dump Facility

• Exercise 11 - System Dump

Unit 11 Performance and Workload Management

• Exercise 12 - Basic Performance Commands
• Exercise 13 - Performance Diagnostic Tool

Unit 12 - Security

• Exercise 14 - Authentication and Access Control Lists