AIX System Administration

5 days

Audience

Prerequisites

System Administrators

Students should be familiar with the AIX environment from a user perspective, including the use of common utilities and the vi editor.

Description

This course covers System Administration for the AIX operating system.  It teaches the basic skills needed by every system administrator to successfully install and manage an AIX system.  Students will be given ample time to develop these skills in a lab environment.

Goals/Objectives

·   Start and shutdown the system.

·   Use the System Management Interface Tool.

·   Create and manage user accounts.

·   Manage disk space and file systems.

·   Perform backups and restores.

·   Install and configure devices.

·   Set up and manage printers and print queues.

·   Implement security policies.

·   Install or upgrade the operating system

Outline/Table of Contents

·   System Administrator Responsibilities

·   Starting and Stopping the System

·   The System Management Interface Tool (SMIT)

·   Managing Users and Groups

·   Logical Volume Manager

·   File Systems

·   Paging Space

·   Backup and Restore

·   Managing the System Environment

·   System Resource Controller

·   System Accounting

·   Devices

·   Tape Drives

·   Printers

·   Security

·   Installing AIX