Description

This course will allow you to administer and best operate a client-server site using an AIX environment. All important aspects of AIX operation and administration will be covered.

Who is this training for ?

For whom ?

This course is intended for operators and system administrators who are responsible for AIX systems.

Prerequisites

Participants in this course must have a good knowledge of the system Unix.

Training objectives

This course will allow you to best administer and operate a client-server site using an AIX environment.

All important aspects of AIX operation and administration will be covered.

Training program

• Introduction
  • - Different AIX versions.
  • - AIX administrator roles.
  • - Documentation sources.
  • - System administration: smit and wsm.
  • - Analysis of incidents management of system dumps, error messages.
  • - Using errpt.
  • - Practical work Handling smit.
• Network configuration and TCP/IP services
  • - Description of communication methods over TCP/IP.
  • - Modifying network characteristics.
  • - Stopping and starting a service.
  • - Registering a service.
  • - inetd and network services.
  • - Network security.
  • - Practical work Configure the network.
• Printer management
  • - Description of printer types.
  • - Installing a local and remote printer.
• Management of hard drives, peripherals
  • - Adding, removing, and modifying hard drive specifications.
  • - Introduction to high availability.
  • - Administering LVM and file systems.
  • - Mounting, taken into account on restart.
  • - Swap: addition, deletion.
  • - Display of zone characteristics.
  • - System disk mirror.
  • - Peripherals: ODM description.
  • - Adding, deleting and modifying device characteristics.
  • - Practical work Disk and device management.
• Backup and Restore
  • - Principles, backup procedures.
  • - Tar, pax and cpio commands.
  • - Using backup and restore.
  • - Bootable system backup ( mksysb).
  • - Practical work Save, restore.
• User and group administration
  • - Characteristics of user accounts and groups.
  • - Files and commands implemented.
  • - Practical work Addition, deletion and modification of an account and group of users.
• NIS (Network Information Service), NFS (Network File System)
  • - Principles of a name service.
  • - Description of the NIS service and the LDAP service.
  • - Setting up an NIS Master Server, a Slave Server NIS and a NIS client.
  • - Administration.
  • - Adding a new table.
  • - Integration of the automounter into NIS.
  • - NFS: setting up the server and client.
  • - Administration and configuration.
  • - Automount: files and options.
• AIX deployment
  • - Commands (at, cron).
  • - The different types of installation.
  • - Applications: deployment, software patches.
  • - Add, delete, view the lpp and rpm applications.