AIX System Administration (ver 4)

Outline

1. Contents
2. Description
3. Audience
4. Prerequisites
5. Topics Include
6. Duration
7. Minimum Requirements
8. Media

Description

The focus of this course is to provide a new System Administrator with the tools to perform basic system administration tasks in an established AIX network environment and to troubleshoot problems unique to the AIX environment. These tasks include system startup and shutdown, maintaining the file system, managing users, and managing resources.

Audience

System administrators new to AIX.

Prerequisites

Experience in UNIX.

Topics Include

AIX System Administration

• Role of the AIX System Administrator
• The Root Directory
• The /usr Subdirectory Tree
• The File System
• Logical Volumes
• Mounting

The JFS File System

• Blocks and Inodes
• Hard Links
• Soft Links

Using SMIT

• SMIT Logs
• The SMIT ASCII Interface
• Using FastPath Commands

Creating a File System

• Creating a Journaled File System
• Modifying a Journaled File System
• Listing File Systems
• Mounting a JFS File System- Entry Fields
• Checking a File System
• Listing Users on a File System
• Unmounting a File System
• The Check File System Command
• Volume Groups and Logical Volumes
• The Logical Volume Manager
• Paging Space

User Management

• Managing User Accounts
• Adding Users
• Final Step to Add Users
• Editing a User Account
• Removing a User
• Assigning a User Password
• Setting Password Criteria
• Password Restrictions

Managing Group Accounts

• Sample File Listing
• Adding a Group
• Changing Group Attributes
• Changing Group Access
• Changing Group Access Examples
• Changing Group Ownership
• Using the chgrp Command
• Access Control Lists

Monitoring Disk Usage

• Using the df Command
• Common df Flags
• Using the du command
• Common du Flags

Identifying User Processes

• The who Command
• Common who Flags
• The w Command
• Common w Flags
• The ps Command
• Common ps Flags

Locating Help Screens

• The info Command
• The SMIT Help Key
• The Help Command
• The man Command

Managing Processes

• Booting an AIX System
• Starting an AIX Boot
• Phases of the Boot Process

Managing Processes

• Lifecycle of a Process
• Sending Signals to a Process
• Changing the Priority on a Process
• Using Nice
• Using Renice
• cron, at, and batch
• Managing System Shutdown

Resource Management

• Error Messages
• Software error Message
• Input Error Message
• Disk Error Message

System Resources

• uptime; vmstat; iostat; sar

Paging Space

• Creating Paging Space

Printer Resources

• Typical Printing Tasks
• Creating a Print Job
• Scheduling Print Jobs
• Checking Print Status
• Canceling a Print Job
• Print Queue Administration

Printer Troubleshooting

• Test the Printer Device
• Test the Printer Queue
• Test the Application

Security and Disaster Recovery

• Backup Strategies
• What Information should you back up
• How will you back up data?
• When will you perform backups?
• File Compression
• pack/ unpack
• Commands to Back up User Data
• SMIT
• Backup Files in a File System
• Restore – tvf Command
• Restoring old/home/accnts Files
• Directories
• Backup System Files
• The Cron Script

Duration

4 hrs

Minimum Requirements

IBM486 PC or compatible, SVGA color monitor, 8MB RAM, 36MB free hard disk space, Windows 3.1/Windows 95 or Windows NT.

Media

Diskette
CDROM

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