AIX Jumpstart for UNIX Professionals

Provide focused training for experienced UNIX administrators on how to install, customize, and administer the AIX operating system in a multiuser IBM Power server partitioned environment. The course is based on AIX 7.3 running on a Power system managed by Hardware Management Console version 10 and provides practical discussions that are appropriate to earlier AIX releases.

Objective

• 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)
• Manage physical and logical devices
• Discuss the purpose of the logical volume manager
• Perform logical volume and file system management
• Perform and restore system backups
• Use the AIX error log and RMC as tools in problem determination
• Configure Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) networking 

Day 1

• Welcome
• Unit 1: Introduction to AIX and IBM Power servers
• Exercise 1: Introduction to AIX and IBM Power servers
• Unit 2: AIX system management tools
• Exercise 2: Using system management tools in AIX
• Unit 3: AIX software installation and maintenance
• Exercise 3: AIX software installation and maintenance
• Unit 4: System configuration and devices
• Exercise 4: System configuration and devices

Day 2

• Unit 5: TCP/IP networking
• Exercise 5: TCP/IP implementation
• Unit 6: System startup and shutdown
• Exercise 6: System startup and shutdown
• Unit 7: Basics of configuring logical partitions
• Exercise 7: Configuring logical partitions
• Unit 8: AIX installation
• Exercise 8: AIX installation
• Unit 9: Working with the Logical Volume Manager

Day 3

• Exercise 9: Working with LVM
• Unit 10: File systems administration
• Exercise 10: File systems administration
• Unit 11: The Object Data Manager
• Exercise 11: The Object Data Manager
• Unit 12: LVM metadata
• Exercise 12: LVM metadata issues
• Unit 13: Disk management procedures
• Exercise 13: Disk management procedures

Day 4

• Unit 14: Backup and restore
• Exercise 14: Backup and restore
• Unit 15: Error monitoring
• Exercise 15: Error monitoring
• Unit 16: System initialization - I
• Exercise 16: System initialization - I (Parts 1-3)

Day 5

• Exercise 16: System initialization - I (Part 4)
• Unit 17: System initialization - II
• Exercise 17: System initialization - II
• Unit 18: The AIX system dump facility
• Exercise 18: System dump
• Unit 19, Advanced install techniques Topic 1: Alternate disk installation
• Exercise 19, Advanced install techniques Topic 1: Alternate Disk
• Unit 19, Advanced install techniques Topic 2: Using multibos
• Exercise 19: Advanced install techniques Topic 2: multibos
• Optional Appendix A: Survey of additional AIX facilities
• Optional Appendix B: Printers and queues

This intermediate course is intended for system administrators who need training to support their transition to supporting AIX running on IBM Power processor based systems in a multiuser Power (System p) partitioned environment.

You should be able to use basic UNIX commands to:

• 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

The above skills can be acquired by attending AIX Basics (AN10D1DG or AN10G) or through equivalent AIX/UNIX knowledge.
In addition, you are expected to have hands-on 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