Power Systems for AIX II: AIX Implementation and Administration

5 Day Course
Hands On
Official Unix Curriculum
Code AN12GB

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Day 1 (4 topics)

  • Unit 1 - Introduction to IBM POWER p systems, AIX and System Administration
  • Unit 2 - AIX System Management Tools
  • Unit 3 - System startup and shutdown
  • Unit 4 - AIX installation

Day 2 (4 topics)

  • Unit 5 - AIX Software installation and maintenance
  • Unit 6 - System configuration and devices
  • Unit 7 - System storage overview
  • Unit 8 - Working with the Logical Volume Manager

Day 3 (3 topics)

  • Unit 9 - Managing file systems
  • Unit 10 - Paging space
  • Unit 11 - Backup and restore

Day 4 (3 topics)

  • Unit 12 - Security and user administration
  • Unit 13 - Scheduling
  • Unit 14 - TCP/IP Networking Overview

Day 5 (2 topics)

  • Unit 15 - Workload Partitions
  • Open Lab Time

Prerequisites

You should be able to:

  • Log in to an AIX system and set a user password
  • Execute basic AIX commands
  • Manage files and directories
  • Use the vi editor
  • Use redirection, pipes, and tees
  • Use the utilities find and grep
  • Use the command and variable substitution
  • Set and change Korn shell variables
  • Write simple shell scripts
  • Use a graphic Common Desktop Environment (CDE) interface

These skills can be acquired by taking AIX Basics or through equivalent AIX/UNIX knowledge. In addition, it would be helpful (but not mandatory) that you be familiar with partitioning concepts and technology as taught in Power Virtualization I: LPAR Planning and Configuration (AN11)

Additional Learning

The courses below may help you meet the knowledge level required to take this course.

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