AIX 7 System Administration I: Implementation

Duration: 5 days
Price: 18.000.000,-

Purpose
The purpose of this course is to enable students to install, customize, and administer the AIX 7 operating system in a multiuser environment using System p server.

Audience
Anyone responsible for the system administrative duties implementing and managing an AIX 7 operating system on an IBM Power server.

Prerequisites
The students attending this course should already be able to:
• Log in to an AIX system and set a user password
• Execute basic AIX commands
• Manage files and directories
• Use the vi editor
• Use redirection, pipes, and tees
• Use the utilities find and grep
• Use the command and variable substitution
• Set and change Korn shell variables
• Write simple shell scripts
• Use a graphic Common Desktop Environment (CDE) interface

These skills can be acquired by taking the AIX Basics course or through equivalent AIX/UNIX knowledge.

Objectives
On completion of this course, students should be able to:
• Install the AIX 7 operating system, software bundles, and filesets
• Perform system startup and shutdown
• Understand and use the system management tools
• Manage physical and logical devices
• Perform file system management
• Create and manage user and group accounts
• Perform and restore system backups
• Utilize administrative subsystems, including cron to schedule system tasks, and security to implement customized access of files and directories
• Describe basic networking concepts Contents
• Introduction to IBM System p and AIX system administration
• System Management Tools - SMIT and the Web-based System Manager
• Software installation and management
• System startup and shutdown devices
• Printers and queues
• Managing queues
• System storage overview
• Working with the Logical Volume Manager
• Working with file systems
• Managing file systems
• Paging space
• Backup and restore
• Security
• User administration
• Scheduling
• Networking overview

Curriculum relationship

This course should follow the AIX 7 Basics course. A basic understanding of AIX environment and simple commands is recommended before taking this course.