Course Duration 2 Days – Hands on course 
Course Fee Available upon request (Write to us at info@tlcpak.com)
Operating System AIX Version 7.1 and AIX 7.2
Course Location Customer Onsite - Karachi
Course Code TN180
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 System Administrators using AIX Version 7.1 and AIX 7.2. It provides participants with the skilss to monitor, analyze and tune AIX subsystems for optimal performance including concepts, strategy and the ways to implement balanced system. 

AUDIENCE:
This course is targeted for system administrators with at least six months experience in AIX and with other relevant education.

PREREQUISITES:
Participants should be experienced System Administrators and should have previously attended IBM AN120 and AN150.

OBJECTIVES:
Everyone who uses a computer has an opinion about its overall systems performance. Unfortunately, these opinions are often completely different. On successful completion of this course, students should be able to perform problem determination and analyze the root causes generating system performance issues. .

COURSE OUTLINE 
• Performance Overview
• System performance 
• Performance tuning process 
• System architecture 
• Program execution hierarchy 
• Components of system performance 
• Processor performance
• System dynamics/attributes 
• Identification of critical resources
• Tools for performance evaluation 
• Standard UNIX and AIX performance tools 
• Tuning CPU Usage
• Processes and threads 
• The life of a process 
• Scheduling policies 
• The iostat, sar, ps, svmon, tprof commands                                  
• AIX Logital Track Group Size
• Introduction to AIX PROC tools
• Administration tuning techniques 
• VMM technology 
• The vmstat, ps and svmon commands 
• Tuning paging space thresholds 
• Memory leaks
• Logical volume attributes that affect performance by using lvmstat command 
• Monitoring PV and LV usage
• Using iostat and filemon
• Logical volume fragmentation 
• Using filemon and fileplace 
• File fragmentation and disk placement 
• JFS log 
• Defragmenting an file system 
• Multiple page support in AIX
• AIX Performance Work Bench - Performance Monitoring Tool
• Issues related to application problems
• Performance – Best Practices
• The Perforamcne tuning process

 

List of IBM AIX Operating System 
Standard Courses

AIX 7 Basics

Power Systems for AIX II - AIX Implementation and Administration

Power Systems for AIX III - Advanced Administration and Problem Determination

Introduction to AIX Korn Shell Scripting - AIX 7,1, AIX 6.1, AIX 5.3 and Linux

AIX 7 Jumpstart for UNIX Professionals

Security for Power Systems AIX

IBM POWER Virtualization Technologies

AIX Disk Storage Management and Recovery Procedures

AIX Performance Monitoring and Management

Introduction to IT Infrastructure Technologies

Understanding the Role of Storage Technologies and Big Data

Linux Basics for Users

 

List of IBM AIX Operating System 
Short-Term Courses

AIX System Configuration Devices & AIX System Storage Overview

AIX Disk Storage Management & Recovery Procedures

AIX Performance Monitoring & Management

Understanding & Managing AIX ODM (Object Data Manager)

Security for Power Systems AIX

AIX Software Installation Maintenance & Backup & Restotore

Working with Logical Volume Manager & File System Administration

AIX Error Monitoring & System Dump Facility & AIX Scheduling

AIX Security 7 User Administration