AIX for UNIX Professionals

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

• install AIX 6.1
• install and maintain software
• 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 and has previous experience of UNIX administration.
Prerequisites
A sound knowledge of UNIX administration techniques is required.
Duration
4 days

Course Code
AXUX
Contents
AIX installation
Installation methods - CD, NIM, mksysb; the install process.


System administration tools
Using smit; text vs GUI smit.


The AIX boot process
Not like SysV; the role of the BLV; the AIX bootlists; AIX runlevels and states; the AIX inittab; controlling services with the SRC rather than scripts; resolving boot problems.


Software administration
AIX Software concepts - from LPP to filesets; installing software; software states; configuring software; installing and configuring fixes.


Hardware administration
The ODM vs text files; querying the ODM; adding and configuring hardware; how cfgmgr works; location codes.


LVM yes, partitions no
Creating and configuring Volume Groups; creating and configuring Logical Volumes; striping and mirroring Logical Volumes; where LVM information is held.


Using AIX jfs2
The structure of the jfs2 filesystem; creating, mounting, unmounting and resizing jfs2 filesystems; /etc/filesystems; running fsck.


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; cloning system.


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


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.