IBM AIX Systems Administration (Networking Features and Setup)
AIX Training Overview
This course will teach the commands and methods needed to setup
and manage advanced features in a Unix system. The course will
also use a problem solving approach in the lab exercises to teach
system managers the proper application of advanced features.
AIX Training Prerequisites
It is assumed that the student has completed the Fundamentals of AIX
and the IBM AIX Systems Administration: Essential Operations
courses, or has equivalent system experience.
AIX Training Course duration
This course normally requires three (3) days, approximately 60%
lecture, and 40% lab time.
AIX Training Course Objectives
On completion of this course, a system administrator should be able to
implement networking features for the system and it's users; define
name service capabilities; and use advanced options and setups
for the shell command interpreters.
AIX Training Course outline
Review of System Concepts for Systems Administrators
Process concepts
Shell command usage and review
Advanced Network Features
Review of network basic setup
Subnet addressing
Using arp (address resolution protocol)
Network statistics
Controlling the inetd process
Miscellaneous network commands/tools
File Transfer Capabilities
The ftp utility
setup
file capabilities
additional features
Using trivial ftp (tftp)
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
Using and Configuring Samba
Reasons for using samba features
Selecting a server host
Defining client hosts
Name Services
Capabilities of DNS
BIND configurations
Configuring the resolver
Configuring the named process
Cache initialization
Using nslookup to obtain information
Configuring Remote Printers
Printer setup databases (and control)
Remote printer usage
Tape Device Access Through TCP/IP
Using data dump (dd)
Combining tar with dd
Remote file system dumping
Setting up anonymous ftp
Maintaining System Integrity
Specifying auditing events
Improving shell performance
Using the error report facility
More on performance analysis
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