AIX Jumpstart for UNIX Professionals Virtual Classroom Live January 27, 2025

Price: $4,000

This course runs for a duration of 5 Days.

The class will run daily from 9 AM ET to 5 PM ET.

Class Location: Virtual LIVE Instructor Led - Virtual Live Classroom.

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Description

Provide focused training for experienced UNIX administrators on how to install, customize, and administer the AIX operating system in a multiuser POWER (System p) partitioned environment. The course is based on AIX 7.1 running on a Power system managed by Hardware Management Console version 7 and provides practical discussions that are appropriate to earlier AIX releases

Audience:

This intermediate course is appropriate for experienced UNIX system administrators who need training to support their transition to supporting AIX running on POWER processor based systems in a multiuser POWER (System p) partitioned environment.

Objectives:

Install the AIX operating system, filesets, and RedHat Package Manager (RPM) packages
Perform system startup and shutdown
Discuss and use system management tools such as System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) and IBM Systems Director console for AIX
Manage physical and logical devices
Discuss the purpose of the logical volume manager
Perform logical volume and file system management
Perform and restore system backups
Use the AIX error log as a tool in problem determination
Configure Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) networking

Course Overview

Day 1

Welcome
Unit 1: Introduction to AIX and IBM Power systems
Exercise 1: Introduction to AIX and IBM Power systems
Unit 2: AIX system management tools
Exercise 2: Using system management tools in AIX
Unit 3: AIX software installation and maintenance
Exercise 3: AIX software installation and maintenance
Unit 4: System configuration and devices
Exercise 4: System configuration and devices

Day 2

Unit 5: TCP/IP networking
Exercise 5: TCP/IP implementation
Unit 6: System startup and shutdown
Exercise 6: System startup and shutdown
Unit 7: Basics of configuring logical partitions
Exercise 7: Configuring logical partitions
Unit 8: AIX installation
Exercise 8: AIX installation
Unit 9: Working with the Logical Volume Manager

Day 3

Exercise 9Working with LVM
Unit 10: File systems administration
Exercise 10: File systems administration
Unit 11: The Object Data Manager
Exercise 11: The Object Data Manager
Unit 12: LVM metadata
Exercise 12: LVM metadata issues
Unit 13: Disk management procedures
Exercise 13: Disk management procedures

Day 4

Unit 14: Backup and restore
Exercise 14: Backup and restore
Unit 15: Error monitoring
Exercise 15: Error monitoring
Unit 16: System initialization - I
Exercise 16: System initialization - I (Parts 1-3)

Day 5

Exercise 16: System initialization - I (Part 4)
Unit 17: System initialization - II
Exercise 17: System initialization - II
Unit 18: The AIX system dump facility
Exercise 18: System dump
Unit 19, Topic 1: Alternate disk installation
Exercise 19,Topic 1: Alternate Disk
Unit 19, Topic 2: Using multibos
Exercise 19: Topic 2: multibos
Optional Appendix A: Survey of additional AIX facilities
Optional Appendix B: Printers and queues

Prerequisites

You should be able to use basic UNIX commands including:

Execute basic AIX commands
Manage files and directories
Use the vi editor
Use redirection, pipes, and tees
Use the utilities find and grep
Use command and variable substitution
Set and change Korn shell variables
Write simple shell scripts

These skills can be acquired by attending AIX 6 Basics (KT-an100) or through equivalent AIX/UNIX knowledge.

You should also have experience administering a UNIX operating system (such as Solaris, HP/UX, and others) including:

User management and system security
Storage
Networking
System shutdown and restart
Backup and recovery
System task scheduling

Other Available Dates for this Course

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February 24, 2025

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March 24, 2025

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5 Days 9 AM ET - 5 PM ET

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