AIX Administration Online Intermediate Level by VEPSUN Technologies

Introduction to UNIX, Basic UNIX Commands

Structure of UNIX Commands

OS Origin, History, Versions, Features.

Architecture, File System, Logging in.

Working with UNIX Commands

Password, Directory, File, etc.

File Access Permissions

Chmod (absolute, symbolic), Umask value.

Wildcard Characters and Redirections

(*,?,[ ]),(stdin,stdout,stderr).

Editor: vi

3 mods:escape,insert,colon.

Simple Filters

Disp. Lines, word count, translate characters, sort lines etc.

Searching files using find command by using various options.

Linking Files using hard link and soft link (symbolic link).

Advanced Filters

Pattern matching, filtering text files.

Process Scheduling

Background processes, killing a process.

Introduction to AIX Administration

RISC Technology.

Power Architecture.

System p Bus types, workstation and server configuration,

LPAR, SMIT menu, Web based system manager, HMC.

AIX software Installation

Packaging definition, bundles, Software Updates, Software States.

Software Installation and Maintenance.

Fix Central Web site, lslpp & instfix command.

AIX OS Installation.

System Startup and Shutdown

Startup modes.

Introduction to startup process.

bootinfo and alog commands, inittab.

System Resource Controller (SRC).

System shutdown.

User & Group Administration

User initialization process.

List all users, Add / change / Show / Remove user from AIX.

Password management - Regaining root s password.

List all groups, Add / Change / Show / Remove group from AIX.

System security files.

Device Management

Device Terminology.

Supported Devices.

Device States, Self Configuring, Device States.

Listing Devices, Documenting Hardware configuration.

System Storage and Logical Volume Manager (LVM)

LVM Components, Logical Volume Manager.

VGDA,Volume groups - Adding & changing, Extending/Reducing,

Activating/Deactivation, Export/Import, Logical Volume .

Logical Storage, RAID, Mirroring & Quorum, Scheduling policies.

Mirror-write consistency, striping, LV policies Add / Remove / Show.

Set LVs and using SMIT, Physical Volumes - List, Add/Move content, Disk

Replacement, Alt Disk Installation.

File system Administration

Structure of JFS / inode.

FS Fragmentation.

Compressed FS, Journal log, JFS Vs JFS2, List / Add/ Change / Show / Delete FS,

mounting, increasing and shrinking, Add RAM file system.

Paging Space - Add / Change / Remove, Disk Free space, Control Growing files,

Disk Usage.

Fragmentation.

Performance Management

Performance Analysis,topas, vmstat, sar, tprof, svmon, nmon,iostat, filemon.

Object Data Manager (ODM)

ODM Components, DB files.

Device Configuration and config Manager.

ODM Commands.

System Initialization

Boot Process.

BLV,Boot List,SMS, Service processor.

Working in Maintenance Mode.

LED codes, Location Codes, Firmware, System Start up.

cfgmgr, inittab.

Resource Monitoring and Control (RMC).

Syslog and Error log

Error logging, errpt command.

syslogd daemon and configuration.

Diagnostics and System Dump

Diagnostic objective, working with diag command and with various modes.

System dumps, systemdumpdev command.

Dedicated dump device, dump size, dumpcheck utility, snap.

Security Administration

File permission and owner ship.

Access Control List (ACL).

Trojan Horse, security logs, SUID, SGID, Sticky bit,umask, motd , security files.

Trusted Base Computing (TCB).

Automated Tasks

Cron, at and Batch.

Backup and Restore

Types of backup.

Strategy, Devices, Backup & Restore rootvg, mksysb, backup and restore other VGs.

Other UNIX backup commands - tar, cpio, dd.

Printers Administration

AIX & System V Print Sub system.

Concept of Queue, Printer Data Flow, qdaemon, qconfig.

Configuring printer using SMIT, Managing Queue.

Network File System

NFS services, Planning, installation, and configuration of NFS.

Exporting NFS directories, Unexporting an NFS directory.

Mounting an NFS directory.

Administration of NFS servers and clients, NFS files.

Commands and daemons reference.