INDUSTRIAL UNIX-AIXCOURSE OUTLINES AND SYLLABUS

Document Version: 2.0

Created: 09/19/2009

Modified: 11/09/2014

Author: Walter Takang

Confirmed by: Walter Takang

Week one

• Introduction to Unix

• The different flavors of Unix

• The IBM version of Unix-Aix

• HMC (Hardware Management Console)

• DLPAR

• Dedicated CPU

• Shared CPU

• Micro-Partitioning

• Introduction to IBM Power Systems (Pseries)

• How to create IBM LPAR (Logical Partition)

• Hypervisor

• HMC default username and Password

Week one cont’d

• Chapter 1: Certification Overview

• pSeries Aix system administration (Aix 7.1 Certification exam)

• What is needed for the Certification examination

• Certification education courses

• Education on CD-ROM IBM AIX Essentials

Week two

• Different methods to authenticate to Unix systems

• Remote access (VPN) granted for students to IBM Power Servers running AIX6.1 and AIX7.1 (Latest Version), and to Hardware Management Console (HMC)

• Introduction to IBM VIO Servers

• Special properties of VIO Servers

• How to configure a VIO Server

• Different ways to share disks/SAN/Storage

• NPIV

• SEA (Shared Ethernet adapter)

• How to create vhost and its role.

• VLAN technology

• Mapping of VIO Server to Client LPARs through their VHOSTs

Week three

• Files and Directories

• What is a file

• What is a directory

• What is a symbolic link

• How to create a file

• How to delete a file

• How to rename a file

• How to edit a file (vi editor and sudo visudo for sudoers)

• File permissions

• How to create a directory

• Changing directories

• How to delete a directory

• Permission of a directory

Week three cont’d

• File transfer protocol (FTP)

• IBM FTP Web servers

• Files and Directories ownership and how to change ownership

Week four

• Chapter 12: Systems Performance and Capacity Management

• Performance Monitoring software

• Threshold values

• Performance related parameters/metrics: CPU, Memory, File Systems, disk space utilization, Network parameters

• Complete processes on Performance tuning of Unix Systems

• How to address performance related CPU issues

• How address performance related memory issues: pagingspace – page-out and page-in

• How to address performance related File Systems issues

• How to address disk space utilization issues

Week four cont’d

• Chapter 7: System Paging Space

• Real or Physical memory

• Virtual memory

• Disk area occupied by paging space

• Swap Space

• Free Page queue

• Page stealing

• Paging Space and logical volume

• Paging Space Calculation (Basic arithmetic)

• Computational Memory

• File Memory

• Minperm, maxperm, maxclient, minfree, and maxfree

Week five

• Chapter 13: User Administration

• Users

• Groups

• User administration related files

• How to create a user

• How to unlock/lock a user account

• How to reset a user account

• How to remove a user account

• How to give sudo rights to non Unix administrators

• Important Unix files and groups

Week five cont’d

• Unix Hardware commands:

• The prtconf command

• #prtconf

• #prtconf | more

• #man prtconf

• The lsdev command

• #lsdev –Cc disk

• #lsdev –Cc tape

• #lsdev –Cc cdrom

• #lsdev –Cc adapter

• #lsdev –Cc adapter | grep ent

• #lsdev –Cc adapter | grep fcs

Week five cont’d

• #lsdev –Cc processor

• #lsdev –Cc memory

• #man lsdev

• The lscfg command

• #lscfg –vl hdisk#

• #lscfg –vl rmt#

• #lscfg –vl cd#

• #lscfg –vl fcs#

• #lscfg –vl ent#

• #lscfg –vl mem#

• #lscfg –vl proc#

Week five cont’d

• The lsattr command

• #lsattr –El hdisk#

• #lsattr –El cd#

• #lsattr –El rmt#

• #lsattr –El mem#

• #lsattr –El proc#

• #lsattr –El fcs#

• #lsattr –El ent#

• The oslevel command

• #oslevel

• #oslevel –s

• #oslevel -r

Week five

• #man oslevel

• #lparstat –i

The rmdev command

#rmdev –Rdl hdisk#

#rmdev –dl hdisk#

The nslookup and uptime commands

#nslookup systemname

#uptime

Week six

• Chapter 4: Systems and Software installation

• Three types of base AIX operating system installation

• - New and complete overwrite installation

• - migration installation

• - preservation installation

• Advance installation option

• Installing package set or desktop

• Enable Trusted Computing Base (TCB)

• Enable 64-bit kernel and JFS2

Week six cont’d

• Understanding maintenance level

• Software Packaging

• Filesets

• Packages

• Licensed Program Product (lpp)

• Bundles

• PTFs and APARs

• Patches (smitty update_all)

• installp command

• Software installation

• IBM Fix Central

• PMR

• FTP

Week six cont’d

• Chapter 8: System backups, restores, and availability

• Important backup commands

• mksysb backup (for rootvg only) #smitty mksysb

• savevg command for non rootvg volume groups

• Restoring rootvg and non rootvg backups

• Creating a bootable rootvg image in the NIM Server

Week seven

• Chapter 6: Storage Management, LVM, and File Systems /Chapter 5 ODM

• Logical Volume Storage Concepts

• Logical volume Manager

• Disk quorum

• Disk mirroring

• ODM (Object Data Manager)

• Volume group

• Logical Volume

• Physical volume (Physical Disk)

• Physical Partitions

• File Systems

Week eight

• HACMP (POWERHA) is IBM Clustering Software

• What is HACMP

• Advantages of HACMP

• Cluster

• Node

• C-SPOC

• Shared Volume group

• Concurrent Volume group

• Resource group

• Building 2 Nodes HACMP (POWERHA) Cluster

• HACMP Commands

Week nine

• Chapter 10: Network administration

• Basic Network Commands

• Daemons

• DNS (Domain Name Server)

• How to replace a failed network card

• How to configure the system Network

• How to identify Network problems

• How to address the internet

• The format of an IP address

• Calculation is based on the conversion from Binary to Decimal

• Internet address classes

• Class determination

• Host name resolution

Week ten

• Chapter 11: Network File Systems (NFS) Administration

• NFS Services

• Planning, Installation, and Configuration of NFS

• Exporting NFS directories

• Exporting an NFS dircctory using text editor

• Exporting an NFS directory temporarily

• Unexporting an NFS Directory

• Mounting an NFS Dirctory

• Mounting an NFS directory explicitly

• Mounting the NFS directory automatically

• Parameters

• Administration of NFS Servers and Clients

• List of NFS commands

Week ten cont’d

• NFS problems determination

Week eleven

• Chapter 9: System resource controller administration

• Starting the SRC

• Restarting SRC

• The startsrc command

• The syslogd daemon

• Refreshing a daemon

• The cron daemon

Week eleven cont’d

• Chapter 2: system Startup Problem Handling

• Basics Commands throughout the chapter

• Boot process

• Power on sequence, LEDs, and audio signals

• Useful Commands

• Using the cfgmgr command

• Using the last command

• Using the bootlist command

• Using the uptime command

• Using the mpcfg command

• Troubleshooting boot problems

• Accessing a system that will not boot

Week twelve

• Chapter 3: Hardware Assistance

• Listing Hardware Devices

• Configuring System devices

• System management services

• Hardware device compatibility

• Using the lsattr command

• Using smitty/smit with devices

• The system error log

• Setting up an ASCII Terminal

Week twelve cont’d

• Chapter 14: Printer Services

• Creating a new print queue

• The print configuration file

• Controlling the print queue

• Stopping the print queue

• Starting the print queue

• Flushing the print job

• How to check the print spooler

• Setting out the time on the printer

• Basic printer diagnostic checklist

Week thirteen

• Chapter 15: sendmail and e-mail

• Overview of mail system

• Mail daemons

• Mail queue directory /var/spool/mqueue

• Mail logs

• Mail aliasing and forwarding

• Mail addressing

• Storing mail

• Mail administrator’s reference

Week fourteen

• Chapter 16: online documentation

• Installing the web browser

• Installing documentation search service

• Chapter 17: AIXwindows font server

• XFS server interrupts

• XFS keywords

• XFS form conventions

• XFS command flags

• XFS font serverexamples