Courses
AIX Admin
Duration : 2 Months
The system administration certification validates a broad scope of AIX administration skills and the ability to perform general AIX software system maintenance. The certification is applicable to AIX administration professionals who conduct the AIX problem determination and resolution activities needed to successfully support customers, or clients, in an AIX environment, to maintain system reliability.
This course helps AIX administrators seeking a comprehensive and task-oriented guide for developing the knowledge and skills required for the certification. It is designed to provide a combination of theory and practical experience needed for a general understanding of the subject matter. It also provides sample questions that will help in the evaluation of personal progress and provide familiarity with the types of questions that will be encountered in the exam.
Introduction to AIX Administration
- The Role of the System Administrator
- Hardware Responsibilities
- Software Responsibilities
- Responsibilities to the Users
Overview of SMIT
- Using the SMIT GUI
- Using the SMIT Terminal Interface
- SMIT Logs.
Security and User Administration
- Security Objectives
- User Administration using SMIT
- Group Administration using SMIT
- Security Files
- Managing User Accounts from the Command Line
- Customizing User Accounts
AIX File Hierarchy
- Introducing the File System Paradigm
- The File System Layout
- Application Directories
Devices
- Device Terminology
- Listing /dev Directory
- Device configuration database
- Device states
- Device addressing
System Startup and Shutdown
- Startup Modes
- Starting System management services.
- Startup process Overview
- alog
- System Resource Controller
- Stopping process
- System Shutdown
- Manage the system Environment
AIX V5.3 Installation
- Installation Methods
- Installation process from CD.
- Installation and Maintenance menu.
- Installation settings.
- Method of installation.
- Advanced Options.
- Installation Flow Charts.
- Configuration Assistant Menu.
AIX V5.3 Installation
- AIX Software Installation and Maintenance
- AIX Product offering
- Packaging definitions
- Fileset Naming
- Bundles.
- Software Updates.
- Software States.
- Software installation and Maintenance.
- Install and update software.
- Software maintenance and utility.
- Instfix command.
Connecting to a Network
- Setting an IP Address and Subnet Mask
- Setting a Default Route
- Setting a System Hostname
- Configuring Network File System
- Resolving Hostnames to IP Addresses
- Configuring /etc/hosts
- Configuring a DNS Client
- Choosing a Look Up Service
- Troubleshooting Tools
Networked Filesystems: NFS
- Network File System
- NFS Server
- NFS Deamons
- NFS Services
- NFS Clients
System Storage Overview
- Components of AIX storage.
- Benefits of LVM
- Physical Storage
- Volume groups
- Volume group Descriptor area.
- Logical Storage.
- Uses of Logical Volume.
- Introduction to File system.
- Mounting & Listing File systems
Working with Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
- Logical Volume Manager.
- SMIT Volume group Menu.
- Add / Remove Volume Groups
- Set characteristics of Volume groups
- Hot Spare
- Logical Storage
- Add / Remove Logical Volume
- Set characteristics of Volume
- Physical Volumes
- lvmstat
Working with File System
- Structure of JFS
- Structure of Inode
- Journaled Log
- Listing File systems
- Add / Remove JFS & JFS2 File systems
- Set characteristics of JFS vs JFS2 File systems
Managing File Systems
- Space Management
- Listing Free disk space
- Listing disk usage
- Verifying a File system
Paging Space
- Paging space Introduction
- Add / Remove Paging space
- Changing paging space.
Scheduling cron Jobs
- The cron Daemon
- cron file
- Managing cronfile with crontab
- What Happens When a Job is Scheduled?
Process Management
- Process Attributes
- Parent Child Inheritance
- Controlling Processes
- The /proc Filesystem
- Scheduled Processes (cron)
- System Resource Controller
Auditing and Security
- Passwords
- Alternative Authentication Methods
- Controlling Superuser Access
- Securing Network Access
- Securing File Access
- Trusted Computing Base
- The Auditing Subsystem
- Additional Security Tools
- Sources of Information
System Backup
- Types of backup
- Backup Menu
- Rootvg Backup process - mksysb
- Non-rootvg backup
- Restoring backups
- Other Unix commands for backup.
Network Information Services (NIS)
- NIS Server Configuration
- NIS Deamons
- NIS Services
- NIS Client Configuration
Problem Analysis and Recovery
- Backups and Bootable Media
- LED Status Information
- Checking the Service Processor Error Log
- What’s in the System Error Report?
- System Memory Dumps
- ystem Logs
- AIX Kernel Structure
- crash Command Is Replaced by kdb in AIX 5L
- Hardware Diagnostics Using diag
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