AN12VN- Power Systems for AIX II: AIX Implementation and Administration

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Learn to install, customize, and administer the AIX operating system in a POWER (System p) partitioned environment. This course is based on AIX 7.1 running on a Power7 system managed by HMC version 7. This course is also appropriate for prior releases of AIX and has a high practical content.

This course provides lectures and hands on labs in an instructor lead course environment, either in a face-to-face classroom or in a live virtual classroom environment (ILO - Instructor Led Online).

Install and the AIX operating system, filesets, and RedHat Package Manager (RPM) packages
Perform system startup and shutdown
Discuss and use system management tools such as System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) and IBM systems director console for AIX
Manage physical and logical devices
Discuss the purpose of the logical volume manager
Perform logical volume, paging space and file system management
Create and manage user administration
Manage AIX user security including enhanced RBAC and implement customized access of file and directories
Perform and restore system backups
Utilize administrative subsystems, including cron to schedule system tasks
Configure TCP/IP networking
Define and run basic Workload Partitions (WPAR)

This is an intermediate course for anyone with system administrative duties implementing and managing an AIX operating system in a multiuser POWER (System p) partitioned environment.

You 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 UNIX / AIX Basics (AN100) or UNIX / AIX Basics (ILO) (AX100) or through equivalent AIX or UNIX knowledge.

In addition, it would be helpful (but not mandatory) that you are familiar with partitioning concepts and technology as taught in Power Virtualization I: LPAR Planning and Configuration (AN110) or (AX110).

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