IBM-AIX Training @ SysAdminExperts

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Total Course Duration: 2.5 to 3 months

WHAT IS AIX?
AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) is the name given to a
series of proprietary Operating Systems launched in 1986, sold by
IBM for several of its computer system platforms, based on UNIX
System V with 4.3BSD compatible extensions.
AIX runs on 32-bit or 64-bit IBM POWER or PowerPC CPUs (depending
on version) and can address up to 32 terabytes (TB) of random
access memory.

Introduction
• 520 H/W information
• IBM Power Systems and pSeries introduction
• Using Hardware Management Console (HMC)
• Flexible Service processor(FSP)
• Advance System Management Interface (ASMI)
• Start/stop AIX Operating system on a LPAR from HMC

Object Data Manager and Devices(9%)
• ODM why it is used and how to Backup ODM
• Device configuration disconfiguration cycle in AIX
• Adding/removing a hot plug device in AIX using configuration
manager
• Using ODM commands: lsdev, lscfg, lsconf, chdev,cfgmgr
• ODM Device classes and Software VPD

Logical Volume Manager (LVM)(7%)
• How LVM is organised in AIX
• Drawbacks of traditional partitions Vs. Advantages of AIX
LVM
• Concepts: Physical volume, VolumeGroup, Logical Volume,
Physical Partition, Logical Partition
• Concepts: VGDA LVCB VGSA
• rootvg and BOS Logival Volumes
• Types of Logical Volumes and their use
• PV, VG, LV characteristics
• Varyon and Varyoff concepts and Quorum
• Import and export of VGs
• Create LV copies and mirroring of VGs
• Remove failed PV from mirrored rootvg
• Migrating data on a PV to another PV
• Using syncvg, reorgvg, synclvodm commands
• Changing volume group type
• Running FSCK and defragfs on Filesystems
• PV characteristics. Availability/ Allocation / VGDA / Max
Request / PP distribution

AIX Filesystem Management
• Different types of AIX filesystems
• JFS and JFS2 filesystems differences
• Creating and mounting AIX jfs/jfs2 filesystems
• extending / reducing filesystems
• Changing mount point of filesystem
• Managing jfslog / jfs2log devices
• Running filesystem checks

Paging and Dump
• AIX paging space designing
• Adding / removing / extending / reducing paging space
• Listing paging space utilization / information
• Mirroring paging space and quorum changes
• Taking a system dump from HMC
• Remove failed disk in mirrored pagingvg
• Dump devices and dump significance
• Dump devices in mirrored rootvg
• Configure primary and secondary dump devices in rootvg

SMIT and using SMIT
• SMIT concept and using smit from console and GUI
• SMIT fastpaths

AIX Storage Concepts
• Host Bus Adapter and fibre SCSI
• AIX connection with storage concept
• Multipathing concepts

Software Installation
• Fileset, package, License Program Product and BOS
• Software installtion commands and modes of software install
• Listing packages and filesets on installation media
• Listing information about installed software
• Install efix

Software Maintenance
• Introduction on APAR, ML, TL, SP and use
• Software maintenance commands
• AIX Upgrade considerations
• Upgrade AIX system to a new Technology and service patch
levels
• Install GNU open source Linux softwares in AIX

Network File System
• Share a directory from one LPAR
• Mount the NFS share on AIX
• NFS communication troubleshooting
Diag and error reporting
• Error logging facility
• Use errpt to locate failed hardware/software
• Remove/replace failed hardware and update errlog
• Using diag to analyze error log

AIX Booting Process(7%)
• Inittab file and AIX runlevels
• Phases of booting
• Changing timezones
• Boot system from either 32 bit or 64 bit kernel
• Troubleshooting booting related problem
• Read boot log

AIX Installation(11%)
• Planning and Documentation (11%)
• Pre and Post installation tasks
• AIX BOS installation on an lpar
• Difference between migration and preservation
• New and complete overwrite installation

User Management(7%)
• User management concept
• AIX Security files
• Troubleshooting common login problems
• User password and login policies

System Resource Controller
• AIX Subsystems and Groups
• Managing inetd subsystems
• Running FTP server
• Start / Stop services using SRC

Networking in AIX(9%)
• Networking devices and their initial configuration
• Changing Speed/Duplex and IP settings
• Etherchannel concepts and configuration
• Manage routing table in AIX
• Changing default gateway

Printers
• AIX Printing subsystem
• Printer types and configuration in AIX

AIX problem determination procedure (15%)
• Logging call with IBM support and sending snap files
• Performance analysis with topas , vmstat , iostat, lvmstat,
svmon, vmo, nfso, no, svmon and /etc/tunables file
• Setting performance parameters for databases and
applications

MISC
• Process and Performance Management and Tuning (9%)
• Backup directories and files
• Job scheduling using cron, at, batch
• Using nohup, jobs
• Using snap command
• Using topas, vmstat, iostat, svmon, vmo, nfso, no
• Install rpms
• Using X server in AIX

Backup and Restore(5%)
• AIX Backup using mksysb
• Using tar command

HMC (Hardware Management Console)(6%)
• HMC models and introduction
• HMC shutdown/startup
• Create new lpar and install AIX
• Boot/shutdown LPAR via HMC using GUI or command line
• Introduction to VIOS and Hypervisor

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