IBM AIX Jumpstart for UNIX Professionals

Course details

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

Course Outline

1 -

• Introduction to AIX and IBM Power systems
• AIX system management tools
• AIX software installation and maintenance
• System configuration and devices

2 -

• TCP/IP networking
• System startup and shutdown
• Basics of configuring logical partitions
• AIX installation
• Working with the Logical Volume Manager

3 -

• File systems administration
• The Object Data Manager
• LVM metadata
• Disk management procedures

4 -

• Backup and restore
• Error monitoring
• System initialization - I

5 -

• System initialization - II
• The AIX system dump facility
• Advanced install techniques
• Alternate disk installation
• Alternate disk - part 1 (pre-clone)
• Using multibos
• Alternate disk - part 2 (post-clone)
• multibos
• Appendix A: Survey of additional AIX facilities

Target Audience: 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.