AIX for Operators

Objectives
On successful completion of this course, attendees will be able to:

• use AIX documentation
• navigatec around the AIX directory structure
• create, copy and move files and directories
• understand AIX file permissions
• use the vi editor
• list and control processes
• understand and use AIX metacharacters
• create login profiles
• use system administration tools
• configure hardware and storage
• configure and control filesystems
• perform system and filesystem backups
• run scheduled tasks.

Who Should Attend
All operations personnel and others who are involved in the day to day operations of an AIX system.
Prerequisites
None.
Duration
5 days

Course Code
AXOP
Contents
Introduction and orientation
AIX components; logging in and out of an AIX system; command structure; using keyboard control characters; using mail; using online documentation.


Files & directories
Files and directories: what are they?; the important AIX directories; relative vs full paths; copying, moving, creating and deleting files & directories; displaying text files; useful file utilities; the find command; hard vs soft links.


Permissions
Permission concepts; directory vs file permissions; changing permissions; controlling default permissions with umask.


Using vi
Open files and insert text; create and edit files; learn the most important survival commands; save changes.


Shell metacharacters
Why metacharacters; u sing wildcards for filenames; command redirections; combining commands with pipes; using command and variable substitution; disabling metacharacters.


Initialisation scripts
Aliases; shell functions; setting and exporting variables; configuring the shell with set; using .profile and .kshrc for customising the environment.


Processes
Process structure; list and control processes; using nice and renice; run background jobs.


System admin tools
Using smit; text vs GUI smit; u sing webmin; don't forget the command line.


Hardware administration
The role of the ODM; the structure of the /dev directory; how cfgmgr works; hardware 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; full and incremental backups of filesystems; how to restore a filesystem; using jfs2 splitcopy.


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