Power Systems for AIX II: AIX Implementation and Administration

Course Description

Learn to install, customize, and administer the AIX operating system in a POWER (System p) partitioned environment. This course is based on AIX 7.1 running on a Power7 system managed by HMC version 7. This course is also appropriate for prior releases of AIX and has a high practical content.

There is also an instructor-led online version of this course: Power Systems for AIX II: AIX Implementation and Administration (ILO) (AX120)

Skills Gained

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: Part 1
• Exercise 12
• Unit 13: Security and user administration: Part 2
• Exercise 13 Unit 14: Scheduling
• Exercise 14 ?Unit 15: TCP/IP networking

Day 5

• Unit 15: TCP/IP networking (continued)
• Exercise 15
• Unit 16: Introduction to workload partitions
• Exercise 16

Who Can Benefit

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.

Prerequisites

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 UNIX / AIX Basics (AN100) or UNIX / AIX Basics (ILO) (AX100) or through equivalent AIX or 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).