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
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.
