Course objectives
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Install and 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, paging space and file system management
- Create and manage user administration
- Manage AIX user security including enhanced RBAC and implement customized access of file and directories
- Perform and restore system backups
- Utilize administrative subsystems, including cron to schedule system tasks
- Configure TCP/IP networking
- Define and run basic Workload Partitions (WPAR)
Course outlines
- Introduction to IBM POWER systems, AIX and system administration
- AIX system management tools
- System startup and shutdown
- AIX installation
- AIX software installation and maintenance
- System configuration and devices
- System storage overview
- Working with the Logical Volume Manager
- File systems administration
- Paging space
- Backup and restore
- Security and user administration- Part 1
- Security and user administration- Part 2
- Scheduling and time
- TCP/IP networking
- Introduction to workload partitions