Course Content
Introduction and Review
- Review of UNIX Concepts
- Review of the history of AIX
AIX Documentation
- Manual Pages
- Browsable Manual Pages
- AIX Information Center
- AIX Message Center
- Hardware Documentation
Administration Interface
- Using SMIT
- SMIT Screen Types
- SMIT and CDE
- Web Based System Manager (WebSM)
- System Director Console
Starting and Stopping the System
- General Overview
- Operator Panel (older & newer systems)
- Power On Switch
- Key Mode (Physical) Switch - (older systems)
- Three Digit (LED) Display - (older systems)
- LCD Display (16*2-rows-characters) - PCI Systems
- Problem Determination
- Normal IPL
- System Management Services
- Normal IPL And init
- Run Levels
- The /etc/inittab File
- Multi-User State
- The /etc/rc File
- Commands associated with /etc/inittab
- System Shutdown
- The Sync Command
- The Shutdown Command
System Configuration
- Objectives
- Setting the Timezone
- Setting the System Time & date
- Changing the System Name
- Viewing System ID Information
- Establishing Basic Network Settings
User Registration
- User Login Account
- Adding a User
- The /etc/passwd file
- The /etc/group file
- mkuser Command
- Sample /etc/security/user File
- Sample /etc/security/login.cfg File
- Sample /etc/security/passwd File
- Change User Characteristics
- Removing a User From the System
- rmuser Command
- The User Environment
- Communicating with Users
- News Items
- SMIT/WebSM and User Management
Disk Management
- The disk
- Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
- Physical Volume
- Listing Physical Volumes
- Volume Group (VG) and Types of Volume Group
- Listing Volume Groups
- Logical Volume
- Listing Logical Volumes
- Make Logical Volume
- Extend a Logical Volume
- Mirror a Logical Volume
- SMIT and Logical Volume Manager
File System
- File Systems
- Journaled File System -The jfs and jfs2
- Filesystem
- File System Components
- File Allocation
- File System Creation
- Sample /etc/filesystems File
- Change File System Characteristics
- Listing a File System
- Mount the Filesystem
- Unmount the Filesystem
- Removing the File System
- File System creation using SMIT
- Special Files
- FIFO Special Files
- Block Device Files
- Character Device Files
- Disk Usage Commands
- File System Check (fsck)
- File System Identification
- Standard File Tree
- Paging Space Recommendations
- Monitoring Disk Usage
Devices
- Object Data Manager
- Device Dependencies
- Device States
- Device Location Codes
- Device File Creation
- List Devices
- Change Device Characteristics
- Remove Devices
- Adding a Device Using SMIT/WebSM
Printer Administration
- Print Queues
- Queue Set-up
- The /etc/qconfig File
- Make Queue
- Make Queue Device
- Virtual Printers
- Using Enq Command For Queue Management
- Using Enq Command For Requests
- Printer Related Commands
- Line Printer Status
- Printing Files
- Cancel Print Request
- Enable Printer
- Disable Printer
- Printer Management Using SMIT/WebSM
- The SystemV Print Subsystem
Processes and Task Scheduling
- Processes
- Report Process Status
- Allocating Priority
- Changing Priority
- Kill a Process
- The Nohup Command
- Scheduling Tasks
- Files and Directories used by Cron
- The Crontab Command
Basic Performance Monitoring
- The Dimensions of System Performance
- Virtual Memory
- Paging
- Adding Paging Space
- Monitoring memory Usage
- CPU Usage
- I/O Usage
- Processes
Archiving and Securing the System
- Backups
- Pathname Considerations
- CPIO
- Tar Command
- Backup Command
- Restore Command
- SMIT and System Storage Management
- The savevg and restvg Commands
- Backup a Volume Group
- Restore a Volume Group
- Back Up the System – mksysb
- Restore the System from a mksysb
Software Installation & Emergency Recovery
- General Overview
- Preparing for Installation
- Software Installation
- AIX Packaging
- Software Product Identification
- Methods of Installation
- Accessing a System That will Not Boot from Hard disk
- System recovery using mksys tape
- Installation Concepts
- Software Maintenance: (PTFs, APARs etc.)
