A 5-day training course aimed at teaching delegates advanced administration, basic troubleshooting and security skills security techniques so they become highly effective administrators of IBM Power P servers running AIX version 5, 6 or 7.
AudiencePrerequisitesLearning ObjectivesTable of content
System administrators and support staff who must perform advanced administration tasks, improve the system security and perform troubleshooting.
Sound knowledge of AIX administration in particular real experience of Logical Volume Manager.
You can acquire the prerequisites by taking our other AIX courses:
AIX – Initiation
AIX – Foundations
– The ‘Object Data Manager’
– The installation of the operating system
– The installation and maintenance of software
– The start and shutdown of the system
– Advanced disk management operations
– Advanced mirroring techniques
– Disks replacement
– Backup and restore operations
Unit 1: The ‘Object Data Manager’
ODM components
Object classes
Descriptor Information
Relationships between object classes
The ODM Database
Location and Contents of ODM directories
The ‘cfgmgr’ command and attributes
Changing values of object attributes
The ‘odmchange’ command
The Predefined Database Files
Predefined Devices (PdDv)
Predefined Attributes (PdAt)
Customized Devices (CuDv)
Customized Attributes (CuAt)
ODM Class Usage
Additional Device Object Classes
Predefined Connection
Customised Dependency
Customised Device Driver
Customised Vital Product Data
Unit 2: AIX Installation
Installation methods (CD, tape, network)
Installation options: console and language
Other installation options
Configuration Assistant Menu
Unit 3: Software installation and maintenance
Components:
– Filesets, Packages and Licensed Program Products
– Bundles
Software updates and Software states
Software installation and maintenance:
– Install new software
– Software inventory
– Fix repository
– Comparison report
Installing Patches and Fixes:
– Using SMIT
– Using the ‘instfix’ command
Unit 4: Disk Management
LVM identifiers
Exploring the VGDA
Exploring the LVM Control block
LVM and ODM relationship:
– ODM and Physical Volumes
– ODM and Volume Groups
– ODM and Logical Volumes
ODM problems
Unit 5: Advanced mirroring techniques
Dealing with stale partitions
Mirroring rootvg
Mirroring data Volume Groups
Quorum and VGDA
Disabling quorum
Dealing with no quorum (force varyon)
Unit 6: Replacing disks
Different circumstances
Replacement process
Common errors after disk replacement
Exporting and Importing Volume Groups
Unit 7: Backup and restore operations
Types of backups
Devices for backups
The ‘tctl’ command to control the tape drive
Backup of rootvg:
– Overview of process
– /image and /bosinst data files
– Structure of the backup image
– Execution of the ‘mksysb’ command
– Verifying a rootvg backup (tape)
– Restoring rootvg
– Changing the physical partition size
– Reducing a file system size
– Cloning the system
Backup of other Volume Groups:
– Overview of process
– Execution of the ‘savevg’ command
– The ‘vgname data’ control file
– Volume Group restoration using ‘restvg’
Backup of directories and Files:
The ‘backup’ command
The ‘restore’ command
Other backup commands:
– The ‘tar’ command
– The ‘cpio’ command
– The ‘dd’ command
Unit 8: Advanced restore techniques
Installing a mksysb Image On Another Disk
Cloning the Running rootvg to Another Disk
Removing an Alternate Disk Installation
Backing up from a split mirror
Using JFS2 snapshot
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