Total Course
Duration : 40 to 50 Days
Crash Course on the Weekends
Online Classes Available on Request
Introduction:
- Introduction to AIX Hardware
- Overview of UNIX operating system
- Basic UNIX commands ( Cat , touch , vi , ls , uptime ,
tail , head , pg .... etc )
- 550 H/W information
- IBM Power Systems and pSeries introduction
- Using Hardware Management Console (HMC)
- Flexible Service processor(FSP)
- Advance System Management Interface (ASMI)
- Start/stop AIX Operating system on a LPAR from HMC
Object Data Manager and Devices:
- ODM why it is used and how to Backup ODM
- Device configuration disconfiguration cycle in AIX
- Adding/removing a hot plug device in AIX using
configuration manager
- Using ODM commands: lsdev, lscfg, lsconf, chdev,cfgmgr
- ODM Device classes and Software VPD
Logical Volume Manager (LVM):
- How LVM is organised in AIX
- Drawbacks of traditional partitions Vs. Advantages of
AIX LVM
- Concepts: Physical volume, VolumeGroup, Logical Volume,
Physical Partition, Logical Partition
- Concepts: VGDA LVCB VGSA
- rootvg and BOS Logival Volumes
- Types of Logical Volumes and their use
- PV, VG, LV characteristics
- Varyon and Varyoff concepts and Quorum
- Import and export of VGs
- Create LV copies and mirroring of VGs
- Remove failed PV from mirrored rootvg
- Migrating data on a PV to another PV
- Using syncvg, reorgvg, synclvodm commands
- Changing volume group type
- Running FSCK and defragfs on Filesystems
- PV characteristics. Availability/ Allocation / VGDA /
Max Request / PP distribution
AIX Filesystem Management:
- Different types of AIX filesystems
- JFS and JFS2 filesystems differences
- Creating and mounting AIX jfs/jfs2 filesystems
- extending / reducing filesystems
- Changing mount point of filesystem
- Managing jfslog / jfs2log devices
- Running filesystem checks
AIX Storage Concepts
- Host Bus Adapter and fibre SCSI
- AIX connection with storage concept
- Multipathing concepts
Paging and Dump:
- AIX paging space designing
- Adding / removing / extending / reducing paging space
- Listing paging space utilization / information
- Mirroring paging space and quorum changes
- Taking a system dump from HMC
- Remove failed disk in mirrored pagingvg
- Dump devices and dump significance
- Dump devices in mirrored rootvg
- Configure primary and secondary dump devices in rootvg
SMIT and using SMIT:
- SMIT concept and using smit from console and GUI
- SMIT fastpaths
Networking AIX:
- Networking devices and their initial configuration
- Changing Speed/Duplex and IP settings
- Etherchannel concepts and configuration
- Manage routing table in AIX
- Changing default gateway
Software Installation:
- Fileset, package, License Program Product and BOS
- Software installtion commands and modes of software
install
- Listing packages and filesets on installation media
- Listing information about installed software
- Install efix
Software Maintenance:
- Introduction on APAR, ML, TL, SP and use
- Software maintenance commands
- AIX Upgrade considerations
- Upgrade AIX system to a new Technology and service
patch levels
- Install GNU opensurce Linux softwares in AIX
Network File System:
- Share a directory from one LPAR
- Mount the NFS share on AIX
- NFS communication troubleshooting
System Resource Controller
- AIX Subsystems and Groups
- Managing inetd subsystems
- Running FTP server
- Start / Stop services using SRC
Diag and error reporting
- Error logging fascility
- Use errpt to locate failed hardware/software
- Remove/replace failed hardware and update errlog
- Using diag to analyse error log
AIX Booting Process:
- Inittab file and AIX runlevels
- Phases of booting
- Changing timezones
- Boot system from either 32 bit or 64 bit kernel
- Troubleshooting booting related problem
- Read boot log
AIX Installation:
- Pre and Post installation tasks
- AIX BOS installation on an lpar
- Difference between migration and preservation
- New and complete overwrite installation
User Management:
- User management concept
- AIX Security files
- Troubleshooting common login problems
- User password and login policies
MISC:
- Backup directories and files
- Job scheduling using cron, at, batch
- Using nohup, jobs
- Using snap command
- Using topas, vmstat, iostat, svmon, vmo, nfso, no
- Install rpms
- Using X server in AIX
