Mastering IBM AIX: Advanced Administration and Problem Determination [TDS_AN15G]

OVERVIEW

This course provides advanced AIX system administrator skills with a focus on availability and problem determination. It provides detailed knowledge of the ODM database where AIX maintains so much configuration information. It shows how to monitor for and deal with AIX problems. There is special focus on dealing with Logical Volume Manager problems, including procedures for replacing disks. Several techniques for minimizing the system maintenance window are covered. It also covers how to migrate AIX Workload Partitions to another system with minimal disruption. While the course includes some AIX 6.1 enhancements, most of the material is applicable to prior releases of AIX.

Virtual Learning

This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.

OBJECTIVES

• Perform system problem determination and reporting procedures including analyzing error logs, creating dumps of the system, and providing needed data to the AIX Support personnel
• Examine and manipulate Object Data Manager databases
• Identify and resolve conflicts between the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) disk structures and the Object Data Manager (ODM)
• Complete a very basic configuration of Network Installation Manager to provide network boot support for either system installation or booting to maintenance mode
• Identify various types of boot and disk failures and perform the matching recovery procedures
• Implement advanced methods such as alternate disk install, multibos, and JFS2 snapshots to use a smaller maintenance window
• Install and configure Workload Partition Manager to support WPAR management and to implement Live Application Mobility (LAM)

AUDIENCE

This is an advanced course for AIX system administrators, system support, and contract support individuals with at least six months of experience in AIX.

CONTENT

Day 1

• Unit 1 - Advanced AIX administration overview
• Exercise 1
• Unit 2 - The Object Data Manager
• Exercise 2
• Unit 3 - Error monitoring
• Exercise 3

Day 2

• Unit 4 - Network Installation Manager basics
• Exercise 4
• Unit 5 - System initialization: Part I
• Exercise 5

Day 3

• Unit 6 - System initialization: Part II
• Exercise 6
• Unit 7 - Disk management theory
• Exercise 7
• Unit 8 - Disk management procedures
• Exercise 8

Day 4

• Unit 8 continued
• Exercise 8 continued
• Unit 9 - Install and backup techniques
• Exercise 9
• Unit 10 - Workload partitions
• Exercise 10

Day 5

• Exercise 10 continued
• Unit 11 - The AIX system dump facility
• Exercise 11 - System dump facility