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IBM AIX Systems Administration (Essential Operations)

AIX

Training Provided by Wintrac Inc. This course will teach the commands and methods needed to setup and manage IBM AIX systems. The course will also use a problem solving approach in the lab exercises to teach system managers advanced topics, for long-term mangement goals. You can get a complete list of other AIX classes at http://www.wintrac.com/courses/coursesAIX1.asp
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Course Level:intermediate
Duration:5 days
Training Presented in:English
IBM AIX Systems Administration (Essential Operations) Advanced System Concepts for System Administrators
  • Process concepts
  • Shell command usage and review
  • Optimizing system help information
  • System administrator functions
  • Using the root account
  • Using the smit graphical and non-graphical interfaces
  • Manipulating system default environment files
System Installation and Updating
  • Installation types and methods
  • Installing the AIX operating systems
  • Upgrading to a newer version of AIX
  • Maintaining the system via patches
  • Adding additional products to the system (lpp)
  • Reconfiguring the AIX kernels via parameters
Startup and Shutdown
  • Default bootstrap
  • Boot to single-user mode
  • Startup methods and procedures
  • Adding procedures to the startup mechanism
  • Shutdown methods and control
Managing of System Users
  • UID and GID concepts
  • Creation of a user account
  • Security through password aging
  • Login sequence
Managing Printer Queues
  • Creation of an execution print queue
  • Commands to manipulate queues
  • Commands to manipulate jobs in queues
Managing Disk and Tape Volumes
  • Commands to manipulate disks/ filesystems
    • creating volume groups and logical volumes
    • creating file systems (crfs and mkfs)
    • manipulating file system structures
    • verifying file system structures with fsck
    • making file systems available to software (mount)
  • Commands to manipulate archival volumes:
    • tar utility
    • cpio utility
    • backup and restore utilities
Monitoring System Activity
  • Informational Utilities
  • The vmstat utility
  • The iostat utility
  • The sar utility
  • The netstat utility
  • Maintaining swap and paging space(s)
  • Building and using the top facility
Maintaining System Integrity
  • Using cron tables
Network Setup and Configuration
  • TCP/ IP address selection
  • Host names and related files
  • Configuring network devices
  • Network testing with ping
  • Network utilities: telnet, rlogin, rcp, rsh
About The Training Provider: Wintrac Inc.
Wintrac Inc. - We can offer training on a wide range of topics including Java, C , Visual Basic, C#, .NET, XML, Linux, PowerBuilder, Oracle and Microsoft technologies. We can also offer end user training on a variety of topics including Office, AUTOCAD, Lotus Notes etc. You can get a partial list of all the onsite training courses we offer at http://www. wintrac. com/ courses. htm. Wintrac clients...
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