AIX System Administration

    

Summary:
This course combines lectures and hands-on labs to teach the participant how to manage the AIX operating system. It includes information on basic system administration, as well as including topics that are AIX-specific that would be of interest to administrators coming from other platforms. The course may be customized to include topics associated with AIX on the SP platforms.

Duration:
5 Days/Lecture & Lab

Audience:
This course is designed for New AIX system administrators or administrators migrating from other UNIX systems to AIX.

Topics:

• Introduction to System Administration
• System Management Tool (smit)
• Managing Devices
• System Startup/Shutdown
• File System Concepts
• The Journaled File System
• Backup and Restore
• Logical Volume Manager
• Managing Users and Groups
• AIX Queuing System
• Basic Problem Determination

Prerequisites:
Students should be familiar with using the UNIX operating system, including using vi, navigating file systems and using basic commands.

Last Update: February 11, 2012