Mastering IBM AIX: Implementation and Administration Training in Canada

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

You should 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 (AU13) or through equivalent AIX/UNIX knowledge.

In addition, it would be helpful (but not mandatory) that you be familiar with partitioning concepts and technology as taught in Power Virtualization I: LPAR Planning and Configuration (AN11)

• Install the AIX operating system, filesets and RPM packages
• Perform system startup and shutdown
• Understand and use system management tools, focusing on SMIT and IBM systems director console for AIX
• Manage physical and logical devices
• Understand 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
• Understand and Implementation Workload Partitions

Day 1

• Unit 1 - Introduction to IBM POWER p systems, AIX and System Administration
• Unit 2- AIX System Management Tools
• Unit 3 - System startup and shutdown
• Unit 4 - AIX installation

Day 2

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

Day 3

• Unit 9 - Managing file systems
• Unit 10 - Paging space
• Unit 11 - Backup and restore

Day 4

• Unit 12 - Security and user administration
• Unit 13 - Scheduling
• Unit 14 - TCP/IP Networking Overview

Day 5

• Unit 15 - Workload Partitions
• Open Lab Time