HACMP System Administration II: Administration and Problem Determination

Course Description:

This course is designed to teach experienced HACMP professionals the latest features in HACMP. How to: effectively administer and monitor a IBM HACMP cluster; implement HACMP's more complex advanced configuration options; carry out problem determination.

The objectives of this class are to review HACMP fundamental concepts, components and new features (including virtualization). Students will gain advanced information that will be vital when building and/or administering complex HA configurations.

Course Objectives

After completing this course, you willbe able to:

- Review fundamental HACMP concepts and components

- Take a look at what's new with HACMP v5.4

- Use the more complex extended path configuration options

- Determine the status of the cluster and cluster components

- Integrate a applications into HACMP

- Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) v5.3 Server

- 'Grumpy' Application

- Enhance security in a highly available cluster

- Implement AIX IPsec VPN and HACMP message authentication and encryption

- Perform problem determination on an HACMP cluster:Application Problems;LVM configuration problems;Networking and RSCT configuration problems;Event script problems

Who Should Attend

Experienced AIX system administrators and support personnel who will be responsible for the administration, maintenance and implementation of HACMP clusters on IBM System p systems running AIX.

The course is aimed at the following audience:

- Students who want to learn the new features with HACMP v5
- Students who wish to learn about how to implement HACMP in complex configurations
- Students who wish to pass the IBM Certified Systems Expert HACMP v5
- Technical leaders responsible for designing HACMP clustering solutions

Note: This course IS NOT suitable for Students with no prior knowledge of AIX/ HACMP who want to go from novice to expert in 5 days.