AIX Jumpstart for UNIX Professionals

Course Overview

Day 1

• Welcome
• Unit 1: Introduction to AIX and IBM Power systems
• Exercise 1: Introduction to AIX and IBM Power systems
• Unit 2: AIX system management tools
• Exercise 2: Using system management tools in AIX
• Unit 3: AIX software installation and maintenance
• Exercise 3: AIX software installation and maintenance
• Unit 4: System configuration and devices
• Exercise 4: System configuration and devices

Day 2

• Unit 5: TCP/IP networking
• Exercise 5: TCP/IP implementation
• Unit 6: System startup and shutdown
• Exercise 6: System startup and shutdown
• Unit 7: Basics of configuring logical partitions
• Exercise 7: Configuring logical partitions
• Unit 8: AIX installation
• Exercise 8: AIX installation
• Unit 9: Working with the Logical Volume Manager

Day 3

• Exercise 9Working with LVM
• Unit 10: File systems administration
• Exercise 10: File systems administration
• Unit 11: The Object Data Manager
• Exercise 11: The Object Data Manager
• Unit 12: LVM metadata
• Exercise 12: LVM metadata issues
• Unit 13: Disk management procedures
• Exercise 13: Disk management procedures

Day 4

• Unit 14: Backup and restore
• Exercise 14: Backup and restore
• Unit 15: Error monitoring
• Exercise 15: Error monitoring
• Unit 16: System initialization - I
• Exercise 16: System initialization - I (Parts 1-3)

Day 5

• Exercise 16: System initialization - I (Part 4)
• Unit 17: System initialization - II
• Exercise 17: System initialization - II
• Unit 18: The AIX system dump facility
• Exercise 18: System dump
• Unit 19, Topic 1: Alternate disk installation
• Exercise 19,Topic 1: Alternate Disk
• Unit 19, Topic 2: Using multibos
• Exercise 19: Topic 2: multibos
• Optional Appendix A: Survey of additional AIX facilities
• Optional Appendix B: Printers and queues

Prerequisites

You should be able to use basic UNIX commands including:

• Execute basic AIX commands
• Manage files and directories
• Use the vi editor
• Use redirection, pipes, and tees
• Use the utilities find and grep
• Use command and variable substitution
• Set and change Korn shell variables
• Write simple shell scripts

These skills can be acquired by attending AIX 6 Basics (KT-an100) or through equivalent AIX/UNIX knowledge.

You should also have experience administering a UNIX operating system (such as Solaris, HP/UX, and others) including:

• User management and system security
• Storage
• Networking
• System shutdown and restart
• Backup and recovery
• System task scheduling