AIX Jumpstart for UNIX Professionals

Course Description

Learn to install, customize and administer the AIX operating system in a multi-user POWER (System p) partitioned environment.

The course is based on AIX 7 running on a Power system managed by Hardware Management Console Version 7 and provides practical discussions that are appropriate to earlier AIX releases.

There is also an instructor-led online version of this course: AIX Jumpstart for UNIX Professionals (ILO) (AX140)

Skills Gained

Day 1

• (00:30) Welcome
• (00:50) Unit 1: Introduction to AIX and IBM Power systems
• (00:30) Exercise 1
• (00:30) Unit 2: AIX system management tools
• (00:30) Exercise 2
• (01:20) Unit 3: AIX software installation and maintenance
• (00:20) Exercise 3
• (01:00) Unit 4: System configuration and devices
• (00:30) Exercise 4

Day 2

• (00:25 Unit 5: TCP/IP networking
• (00:15) Exercise 5
• (00:40) Unit 6: System startup and shutdown
• (00:30) Exercise 6
• (00:30) Unit 7: Basics of configuring logical partitions
• (01:00) Exercise 7
• (01:00) Unit 8: AIX installation
• (01:00) Exercise 8
• (00:45) Unit 9: Working with the Logical Volume Manager

Day 3

• (01:10) Exercise 9
• (00:50) Unit 10: File systems administration
• (00:25) Exercise 10
• (00:40) Unit 11: The Object Data Manager
• (00:30) Exercise 11
• (00:35) Unit 12: LVM metadata
• (00:40) Exercise 12
• (00:30) Unit 13: Disk management procedures
• (00:40) Exercise 13

Day 4

• (00:50) Unit 14: Backup and restore
• (00:60) Exercise 14
• (00:35) Unit 15: Error monitoring
• (00:30) Exercise 15
• (01:20) Unit 16: System initialization - I
• (01:05) Exercise 16 (parts 1-3)

Day 5

• (00:30) Exercise 16 (part 4)
• (00:35) Unit 17: System initialization - II
• (00:35) Exercise 17
• (00:25) Unit 18: The AIX system dump facility
• (00:15) Exercise 18
• (01:12) Unit 19: Advanced install techniques
• (00:20) Unit 19 part I: Alternate disk installation
• (00:15) Exercise 19: Alternate disk - part 1 (pre-clone)
• (00:15) Unit 19 part II: Using multibos
• (00:15) Exercise 19: Alternate disk - part 2 (post-clone)
• (00:35) Exercise 19: multibos
• (00:40) Optional Appendix A: Survey of additional AIX facilities

Who Can Benefit

This intermediate course is appropriate for experienced UNIX system administrators who want to support AIX running on POWER processor based systems in a mult-iuser POWER (System p) partitioned environment.

Prerequisites

You should be able to use basic UNIX commands including:

• Execute basic AIX commands
• Manage files and directories
• Use the vi editor
• Use redirection, pipes, and tees
• Use the utilities find and grep
• Use command and variable substitution
• Set and change Korn shell variables
• Write simple shell scripts

These skills can be acquired by attending AIX 6 Basics (AN100) or through equivalent AIX/UNIX knowledge.

You should also have experience administering a UNIX operating system (such as Solaris, HP/UX, and others) including:

• User management and system security
• Storage
• Networking
• System shutdown and restart
• Backup and recovery
• System task scheduling