AIX System Administration - Part 2

AUDIENCE: This course is for experienced AIX System Administrators, or delegates who have recently attended the course AIX System Administration Part 1.
PREREQUISITES: Delegates should have a good basic understanding of AIX System Administration gained through at least three months practical experience and should have attended the AIX System Administration Part 1 course.
DURATION: 2 days. Hands on.
OBJECTIVES: To provide attendees with the additional knowledge required to closely monitor the performance and optimally tune an AIX based system.

To satisfactorily cope with the day to day monitoring of a multi-user AIX site and be able to identify performance issues and devise strategies to overcome them.
COURSE CONTENT:
Introduction to AIX Systems Administration Part 2
An Operating System
Performance Monitoring
Tuning
Optimisation
Workload
Nothing in Isolation
Objective Performance
System Types
Site Specific Systems
The Global Picture
Performance Related Areas
The Kernel

CPU and Process Monitoring
Processes
Some System Processes
Timing Commands
The Timex Command
Scheduler
Priorities
Real Time Processes
Allocating Priority
Changing Priority
The uptime Command
The w Command
The iostat Command
The vmstat Command
Data Collection Utilities
Collecting System Activity Data
Producing System Activity Reports
Monitoring CPU Activity
Examining Process Queue Activity
Monitoring System Call Activity
Resource utilisation by completed processes
Improving CPU Performance
The sched o command

Virtual Memory Manager
Page-Replacement Algorithm
Paging Space
List Page Space
Add Page Space
Change Paging Space Characteristics
Remove Page Space
Virtual Memory Statistics
Display current state of Virtual Memory
Monitoring Virtual Memory Activity
Reduced Memory System Simulator
Using rmss to run a command over a range of memory sizes
Improving Virtual Memory Management
Using the vmo command to change kernel characteristics

Logical Volume Management
Vary-on and Vary-off
Disk Access Times
Mirroring
Scheduling Policies
Disk Allocation Policies
Inter-Physical Volume Allocation Policy
Intra-Physical Volume Allocation Policy
Listing Physical Volumes
Listing Logical Volumes
The iostat Command
Monitoring the performance of the file system
Displaying placement of file''s blocks
Monitoring File System Activity
Future Directions

Appendix A
UNIX Accounting System
Logical Volume Manager Commands