AIX ADMINISTRATION COURSE SYLLABUS

COURSE TOPICS:


 BASICS


• Review of UNIX commands


INTRODUCTION TO P-SERIES



• RISC and CISC technology


• SMP and SP


• Various models of p5 and p6


SMIT


• How to use smit menus


• Various option of smit menu


• What is smit.log

  DEVICES


• Device Terminology


• ohm


• Device States


• Configuring the devices


• Device addressing


• Device connector ide,isa,pci,scsi,Fc


• Logical address and physical address




 LOGICAL VOLUME MANAGER


• Traditional issues


• Benefits of LVM ,physical storage


• Volume Groups, VGDA, Volume Groups Limits.


• Logical Storage


• Uses of Logical Volumes, properties of LVM


• RAID concept in LVM


What is File Systems, jfs and jfs2, nbpi, inode etc?


What is mounting, why have file system/etc/file systems


Verifying file system


• Paging Space


What is paging space, sizing paging space,paging placement,


Adding, changing, removing paging space


Problems with paging space






 SECURITY CONCEPTS


• User accounts


• Groups


• Security Logs


• Security Files


• Permission






 USER ADMINISTRATION


• Users


• Groups


• Passwords


• Login Controls






 SYSTEM DUMP


Real time sys dump scenario , logging call with IBM


 SCHEDULING


• Cron, real time cron issues


• At




 AIX INSTALLATION




 PROBLEM DETERMINATION


• Error Log


• Diagnostics






 BACKUP AND RESTORE


• mksysb backup


• Performing mksysb like real time through NFS


• Alt disk backup and different Methods for alt disk , SAN based Alt disk






 NETWORKING


• TCP/IP


• DNS


• What is DNS


• Why DNS


• DNS Client Configuration


• Etherchannel


• Real time Networking issues with AIX






 NETWORK FILE SHARING (NFS)


• Configuring NFS Server


• Clients mounting the NFS file systems


• Discussion of real time scenarios






 BOOTING PROCEDURE


System startup and shutdown


AIX booting procedure


Real time Issues






 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION


• Modes of Software Installation


• Upgrading TL to latest levels like TL-8, TL-9


• Upgrading SUDO, SSH.






 PERFORMANCE TUNING


• Issues with CPU


• Issues with Memory


• Issues with I/O


• Real time Perf issue discussion


• What is perfpmr






 PRINTERS


• Types of Printer in AIX .


• AIX and Sys V print sub system


• Configuring printer.


• Real time printer issues






 STORAGE USAGE IN AIX .


Discussing EMC/IBM/ Hitachi Storage in AIX


Real time issues related with Storage in AIX.


 DISCUSSION OF REAL TIME SCENARIOS AROUND 100 REAL TIME TICKETS .






Faculty: Hard core 10 Years of exp in AIX, huge teaching exp in India Corporate and in US University