AIX Training Overview
This course will teach the commands and methods needed to setup
and manage IBM AIX systems. The course will also use a problem
solving approach in the lab exercises to teach system administrators
advanced topics, for long-term mangement goals.
Systems: IBM AIX, running on any supported hardware platform,
software version 5L V5.1 - V5.4.
AIX Training Prerequisites
It is assumed that the student has successfully completed the
Fundamentals of IBM AIX (Unix) course, or has equivalent
system time as a user.
AIX Training Course duration
This course normally requires four (4) days, approximately 60%
lecture, and 40% lab time.
AIX Training Course Objectives
On completion of this course, a system manager should be able to
install, update, and boot the IBM AIX operating system; set up
user accounts and directories; prepare queues for use; perform
backups for integrity and performance reasons; monitor the system
for performance and do basic setup of network software and capabilities.
AIX Training Course outline
Advanced System Concepts for System Administrators
Process concepts
Shell command usage and review
Optimizing system help information
System administrator functions
Using the root (superuser) account
Using the smit graphical and non-graphical interfaces
Using the wsm graphical interface
Manipulating system default environment files
System Installation and Updating
Installation types and methods
Installing the AIX operating systems
Upgrading to a newer version of AIX
Maintaining the system via patches
Adding additional products to the system (lpp)
Reconfiguring the AIX kernels via parameters
Startup and Shutdown
Default bootstrap
Boot to single-user mode
Startup methods and procedures
Adding procedures to the startup mechanism
Shutdown methods and control
Managing of System Users
UID and GID concepts
Creation of a user account
Security through password aging (security)
Login sequence
Managing Printer Queues
Creation of an execution print queue
Commands to manipulate queues
Commands to manipulate jobs in queues
Managing Disk and Tape Volumes
Commands to manipulate disks/filesystems:
creating volume groups and logical volumes (AIX)
creating file systems (crfs and mkfs)
manipulating file system structures
verifying file system structures with fsck
making file systems available to software (mount)
Commands to manipulate tape volumes:
tar utility
cpio utility
backup and restore utilities
Monitoring System Activity
Informational Utilities
The vmstat utility
The iostat utility
The sar utility
The netstat utility
Maintaining swap and paging space(s)
Building and using the top facility
Using the monitor, nmon, and topas displays
Maintaining System Integrity
Using cron tables
Security considerations (users,volumes,files)
Network Setup and Configuration
TCP/IP address selection
Host names and related files
Configuring network devices
Configuring the name server files
Files used by resolver systems
Setting up the /etc/netsvc.conf file
Using nslookup to test name services
Network testing with ping
Network utilities: telnet, rlogin, rcp, remsh
Advanced Network File System (NFS) Features
Review of basic NFS setup
Advanced capabilities of server setup
Advanced capabilities in client setup
Using the automount feature
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