AIX System Administration II: Problem Determination

Prerequisites:

A working knowledge of AIX including one editor, shell programming and system administration tasks such as adding users, devices and filesystems.

Course Description:

This course is designed to develop problem determination and solution skills. A variety of system problems will be generated. The attendee will then perform system recovery using standard AIX tools.

Course Objectives

On completion of this course, you will be able to:

- Maximise the availability of pSeries servers by performing system recovery from a variety of failures.
- Produce a policy for secure systems
- Produce a policy for replacing disks
- Produce a policy for system backup

Who Should Attend

Support staff and administrators of AIX.

This course includes the following modules:

Course Content

• pSeries Systems Architecture
• The use and purpose of the Object Data Manager
• Systems Initialisation and boot failures
• Disk Management through the Logical Volume Manager
• Saving and restoring filesystems and volume groups
• mksysb creation and systems recovery
• Journaled Filesystems and JFS2
• Volume Group Management
• The error log, the diag utility and the AIX system dump utility
• Basic performance monitoring
• System Security