IBM : Power Systems for AIX II: AIX Implementation and Administration

13 September 2018 @ 8:00 am - 17 September 2018 @ 3:30 pm

Velisa Africa is the official Global Knowledge partner in Sub-Saharan Africa. Course details : https://www.globalknowledge.co.uk/courses/ibm/operating_systems/an12g.html

Learn to install, customize, and administer the AIX operating system in a POWER (System p) partitioned environment. This course is based on AIX 7.1 running on a Power7 system managed by HMC version 7. This course is also appropriate for prior releases of AIX and has a high practical content.

There is also an instructor-led online version of this course: Power Systems for AIX II: AIX Implementation and Administration (ILO) (AX120GB)

Pre-Requisites 

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 (AU13GB) 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 (AN11GB)

Day 1

  • 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

  • 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

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

Day 4

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

Day 5

  • Unit 15 – Workload Partitions
  • Open Lab Time

  • Install the AIX operating system, filesets and RPM packages
  • Perform system startup and shutdown
  • Understand and use system management tools, focusing on SMIT and IBM systems director console for AIX
  • Manage physical and logical devices
  • Understand the logical volume manager
  • Perform logical volume and file system management
  • Create and manage user and group accounts
  • Perform and restore system backups
  • Utilize administrative subsystems, including cron to schedule system tasks, and security to implement customized access of files and directories
  • Configure TCP/IP networking
  • Understand and Implementation Workload Partitions

This intermediate course is appropriate for anyone with system administrative duties implementing and managing an AIX operating system in a multiuser POWER (System p) partitioned environment.

For more information please contact us:

Enquiries in Johannesburg and Cape Town : pauli@velisaafrica.co.za

International Enquiries : hema.chugh@globalknowledge.ae

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