Power Systems for AIX II - AIX Implementation and Administration

Course Duration	4 Days – Hands on
Course Fee	Available upon request (Write to us at info@tlcpak.com)
Operating System	AIX 7.1 and AIX 7.2
Course Location	Customer Onsite
Course Code	TN120
Group Discount	Discounts are available for a classs of 5 and 8 students
Deliverables	Comprehensive Student Guide and Course Certificate

PURPOSE:
This course is designed for delegates who are responsible for system administration duties on an AIX system running on IBM Power hardware. This course enables delegates to install, customize and administer the AIX operating system in a multi-user environment.

AUDIENCE:
Anyone responsible for the system administrative duties implementing and managing AIX operating system on IBM Power hardware.

PREREQUISITES:
Participants should be familiar with basic information technology. They should be able to login 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 utilities find and grep, use command and variable substitution and set Korn Shell variables.

OBJECTIVES:
On successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

Installation of AIX software updates and filesets.
Perform system startup and shutdown.
Understand and use the system management tools.
Manage physical and logical devices.
Perform file system management.
Create and manage user and group accounts.
Perform and restore system backups.
Utilize administrative subsystems, including cron to schedule system tasks.
Customize system security to implement customized access of files and directories.

COURSE OUTLINE

System Management Tools
• UNIX System Administration challenges
• System Management Interface Tool (SMIT)
• SMIT Dialogue and Output screens
• SMIT log and script files
• Web Based System Manager
• IBM System Director Console for AIX
• pConsole Application and Management
• Introduction to Distributed Command Execution Manager
• DCEM and System Health Check
• Console logging and tracing

System Startup and Shutdown
• System Startup
• Managed system activation
• Startup mode
• AIX startup process overview
• AIX partition activation
• The alog command
• The /etc/inittab file
• System Resource Controller
• Managing subsystems
• AIX partition shutdown
• Managed system shutdown

AIX Software Installation and Maintenance
• Software packaging definitions
• AIX software levels
• Software repository
• Software states
• lpp, filesets and files
• Installing new software using SMIT
• Applying patches on the system
• Removing installed software
• Recovering from broken software and inconsistent states
• Fix central web site for downloading Technology Levels
and Service Packs

System Configuration and Devices
• AIX Device Terminology
• The /dev Directory
• System configuration and device overview
• Device States and Addressing
• Device Management
• Device Location Codes
• Self Configuring Devices
• Various commands to manage devices

System Storage Overview
• Components of AIX Storage
• Benefits of the Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
• Volume Groups
• Physical Storage and Logical Storage
• File Systems
• Standard File Systems in AIX
• The /etc/filesystems File
• Mounting a Filesystem
• Listing File Systems and Listing Logical Volumes

Working with the Logical Volume Manager
• Logical Volume Manager
• Adding and Removing Volume Groups
• Listing Volume Groups
• Change, Reorganise, Activate and Deactivate a Volume Group
• Reorganize a Volume Group
• Import/Export a Volume Group
• Mirroring and Striping
• Adding and Removing Volume Groups
• Change, Reorganise, Activate and Deactivate a Volume Group
• Import/Export a Volume Group
• Mirroring and Striping
• Logical Volume Policies
• Listing Logical Volume Information
• Adding and Removing Logical Volumes
• Listing Physical Volume Information
• Add/Change Physical Volumes
• Add copies to Logical Volumes
• Set characteristics of Logical Volumes
• Add or move contents of Logical Volume
• Documenting disk storage configuration

File System Administration
• Structure of a Journaled File System
• Structure of an inode
• File System Fragmentation
• Large File enabled Filesystems
• The Journaled Log
• Adding and Removing Filesystems
• Mount/Unmount a Filesystem
• Space Management Issues
• Listing free Disk Space and Controlling Files
• Fragmentation Considerations
• Defragmenting a Filesystem
• Filesystem Verification

Paging Space
• Paging Space Overview
• Paging Space Placement
• Adding, Changing and Removing Paging Space
• Problems with Paging Space
• Documenting paging space setup

Backup and Restore
• Backup and Restore Overview
• Types of Backup
• Backup Strategy
• Backup Devices
• Image Backup of rootvg with mksysb
• Backup of a non-rootvg Volume Group
• Restoring Files and Directories
• Other UNIX Commands; tar, cpio and dd
• Backup Restore Best Practices

Security and User Administration
• Security Concepts
• Users and Groups
• Security Logs
• File/Directory Permissions
• Changing Permissions and Ownership
• The User, Group and Login Security Files
• User Administration
• Adding, Changing and Removing Users
• User Passwords
• Regaining root's Password
• Group Administration
• Adding, Changing and Removing Groups
• Introduction to Role Base Access Control
• Controlling access to the root account
• RBAC defined roles and authorization
• RBAC basic implementation
• RBAC examples

Scheduling
• The cron Daemon
• Changing crontab
• The skulker File
• The at and batch Commands
• Controlling at Jobs

Introduction to Workload Partition
• Workload Partition Overview
• Understanding Application WPARs
• Creating an Application WPAR
• System WPAR Overview
• Creating System WPAR
• Creating a System WPAR with a network definition
• Starting a System WPAR
• Stopping and removing a System WPAR
• WPAR Status and Logs
• System WPAR management: clogin
• Save and restore System WPAR
• AIX command restrictions in WPARs