IBM-AIX Administration Training - Basic ( L1 & L2 )

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