AIX Administration

This course, teaches the installation, customisation and day-to-day running of the AIX operating system. The course comprises formal classroom teaching and a number of practical, hands-on sessions.

This course is available for one-company, on-site presentations.

What you will learn

On successful completion of this course you will be able to:

install AIX 6.1 and install subsequent software and fixes
perform system shutdown and startup
use SMIT for system administration
configure and administer hardware
describe how the LVM works
create, administer and query Volume Groups, Logical Volumes and Physical Volumes
create and administer jfs2 filesystems
configure paging space
configure AIX users and Groups
backup and restore a system
run jobs at scheduled times.

Who Should Attend

Anyone who will be supporting or administering an AIX system.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of UNIX/AIX at a user level, gained either through on-the-job experience or by attending the AIX Fundamentals course.

Duration

5 days

Fee (per attendee)

P.O.A.

This includes free online 24/7 access to course notes.

Hard copy course notes are available on request from rsmshop@rsm.co.uk

at £50.00 plus carriage per set.

Course Code

AXA1

Administration introduction

The root account; using su; why AIX is different from vanilla UNIX.

AIX installation

Installation methods - CD, NIM, mksysb; the install process; important post-install tasks.

System administration tools

Using smit; text vs GUI smit; using webmin; don't forget the command line.

The AIX boot process

Basic overview; the role of the BLV; the AIX bootlists; AIX runlevels and states; how init reads /etc/inittab; the /etc/rc file; controlling services with the SRC; system shutdown.

Software administration

AIX software concepts - from LPP to filesets; nstalling software; software states; configuring software; installing and configuring fixes; SUMA.

Hardware administration

The role of the ODM; the structure of the /dev directory; how cfgmgr works; rdware states; listing, adding and configuring hardware; physical vs AIX location codes.

Disk management

Creating and configuring Volume Groups; creating and configuring Logical Volumes; striping and mirroring Logical Volumes; where LVM information is held.

Using jfs2

The structure of the jfs2 filesystem; concepts of journaling; creating, mounting, unmounting and resizing jfs2 filesystems; /etc/filesystems; running fsck; setting up filesystems quotas; monitoring filesystems.

System backup and recovery

Archiving devices; backing up and restoring Volume Groups with mksysb and savevg; f ull and incremental backups of filesystems; how to restore a filesystem; using jfs2 splitcopy.

Memory and swap space

Listing memory and memory usage; configuring and monitoring page space.

Scheduling Jobs

Using crontab, and at; security issues; using /etc/qconfig as a batch processor.

Users and Groups

The AIX view of users; the login process; the user and group databases in /etc and /etc/security; add, change and delete users and groups; user configuration files; password management; using ulimit.

Basic Security

The setuid, setgid and sticky permissions; recap on umask; using ACLS; reading log files.

Printing on AIX

How qdaemon works; the /etc/qconfig file; print queues and virtual printers; make up your own backend; controlling print jobs.