Power Systems for AIX II: AIX Implementation and Administration (AN12G)

 

Who should attend

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

  • 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

Course Objectives

  • 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
  • Define and run basic Workload Partitions (WPAR)

Course Content

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

Prices & Delivery methods

Online Training

Duration
5 days

Price (excl. tax)
  • 3,200.— €
Digital courseware

Courseware language: English

Dates and Booking
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Classroom Training

Duration
5 days

Price (excl. tax)
  • Germany: 3,200.— €
incl. catering
Digital courseware

Courseware language: English

Dates and Booking
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Schedule

Guaranteed date:   The course is guaranteed to run regardless of the number of participants. This excludes unforeseeable events (e.g. accident, illness of the trainer) which make it impossible to carry out the course.
Instructor-led Online Training:   Course conducted online in a virtual classroom.

English

Time zone: Central European Summer Time (CEST)   ±1 hour

Online Training 4 days Time zone: Central European Summer Time (CEST)
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Online Training 4 days Time zone: Central European Time (CET)

7 hours difference

Online Training Time zone: Central Daylight Time (CDT)
Online Training Time zone: Central Daylight Time (CDT)
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