Power Systems for AIX II: AIX Implementation and Administration

This is an intermediate course for anyone with system administrative duties implementing and managing an AIX operating system in a multiuser POWER (System p) partitioned environment

• Install the AIX operating system, filesets, and RedHat Package Manager (RPM) packages
• Perform system startup and shutdown
• Discuss and use system management tools such as System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) and IBM systems director console for AIX
• Manage physical and logical devices
• Discuss the purpose of the logical volume manager
• Perform logical volume and file system management
• Create and manage user and group accounts
• Perform and restore system backups
• Utilize administrative subsystems, including cron to schedule system tasks, and security to implement customized access of files and directories
• Configure TCP/IP networking
• Implement Workload Partitions (WPAR)

You should be familiar with:

• basic information technology (IT) concepts and the role of an operating system. This course does not require any logical partitioning experience.
• General TCP/IP knowledge is strongly recommended. This prerequisite may be met by attending:
  • AIX Basics (AU131) or (AT131)

You should already be able to:

• Log in to an AIX system and set a user password
• Execute basic AIX commands
• Manage files and directories
• Use the vi editor
• Use redirection, pipes, and tees
• Use the utilities find and grep
• Use the command and variable substitution
• Set and change Korn shell variables
• Write simple shell scripts
• Use a graphic Common Desktop Environment (CDE) interface

These skills can be acquired by taking AIX Basics (AU131) or (AT131) or through equivalent AIX/UNIX knowledge.

In addition, it would be helpful (but not mandatory) that you are familiar with partitioning concepts and technology as taught in Power Virtualization I: LPAR Planning and Configuration (AN110) or (AX110).

Day 1

• Unit 1: Introduction to IBM POWER systems, AIX and system administration
• Exercise 1
• Unit 2: AIX system management tools
• Exercise 2
• Unit 3: System startup and shutdown
• Exercise 3
• Unit 4: AIX installation
• Exercise 4

Day 2

• Unit 5: AIX software installation and maintenance
• Exercise 5
• Unit 6: System configuration and devices
• Exercise 6
• Unit 7: System storage overview
• Exercise 7
• Unit 8: Working with the Logical Volume Manager
• Exercise 8

Day 3

• Unit 9: File systems administration
• Exercise 9
• Unit 10: Paging space
• Exercise 10
• Unit 11: Backup and restore
• Exercise 11

Day 4

• Unit 12: Security and user administration
• Exercise 12
• Unit 13: Scheduling
• Exercise 13
• Unit 14: TCP/IP networking

Day 5

• Exercise 14
• Unit 15: Introduction to workload partitions
• Exercise 15

Previous courses

Power Systems for AIX I: LPAR Configuration and Planning [AN11G]

Next courses

Power Systems for AIX III: Advanced Administration and Problem Determination [AN15G]

AIX Jumpstart for UNIX Professionals [AN14G]