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Lab Setup Guide forClassroom DeliveryERC 2.0

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Lab Setup Guide for Classroom Delivery

August 2011 edition

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Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States, other countries, orboth.

Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States, other countries, or

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UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the United States and other

countries.

Java and all Java-based trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of

Oracle and/or its affiliates.

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Contents

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Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii

Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Hardware requirements for a full class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Hardware required whatever the number of students: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1Hardware requirements for one team lab set (2 students) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Setup instructions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Configuration information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3AIX installation instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6AIX configuration tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Verification procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Course image information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Image information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

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The reader should recognize that the following terms, which appear in the content of this

training document, are official trademarks of IBM or other companies:

IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.

The following are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United

States, or other countries, or both:

Adobe is either a registered trademark or a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated in

the United States, and/or other countries.

Intel is a trademark or registered trademark of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the

United States and other countries.Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States, other countries, or

both.

Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States, other countries, or

both.

UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the United States and other

countries.

Java and all Java-based trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of

Oracle and/or its affiliates.

Other product and service names might be trademarks of IBM or other companies.

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Copyright IBM Corp. 2010, 2011 Purpose vii

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This Lab Set Up Guideprovides directions for installing, preparing, and verifying the lab

hardware and software in preparation for conducting a class of course AN10.

The Requirements sections of this document can also be used to determine the specific

hardware and software needed to conduct a class.

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Copyright IBM Corp. 2010, 2011 Requirements 1

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The following tables list the hardware, software, and other materials needed to set up a lab

to conduct a class of course AN10.

Hardware requirements for a full class

Table 1lists the number of machines, HMCs, and the resources required to conduct the

class for the course class size (8 students)

Hardware required whatever the number of students:

Table 2: Hardware for running the class whatever number of student.

Table 1: Power System(s) and HMCs for a full class of 8 students

Number of

machines

Number of

Teams per

machine

System

Firmware

level

HMC level Number of

HMCs

Features

1 4 AL710_099or late r

7.7.2 SP0or later

1

Physical

Ethernet

Adapters

Physical

Fiber

Channel

Adapters

Memory CPUs HEA MCS

value

(always 1?)

HEA

logical

ports

External

Storage

size

1 1 2G 1 N/A N/A N/A

VIO orAIX LPAR

Logicalpartition

name

MemoryMin/Des/Max

#VPMin/Des/Max

CEMin/Des/Max/Cap/Uncap

PhysicalEthernetAdapters

FiberChannelAdapters

VIO vios1 768/768/768 1/1/1/UnCap 1.0/1.0/1.0Uncap

1 1

Table 3: Storage LUNs required for the class whatever number of students

LUN size

LUN type

(shared/

not shared)

Shared

between:If not shared, zoned to: Function

36 GB not shared N/A vios1(physical FC) rootvg of vios1

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Hardware requirements for one team lab set (2 students)

Table 4 andTable 5 list the POWER system configuration needed to prepare one team

lab set.When preparing for a class, multiply the items below by the number of lab sets

needed for the class.

Table 4: Hardware required for one Team lab set

LPARs MemoryCE

Min/Des/MaxCap/Uncap

#VPMin/Des/Max

PCIeEthernet

Adapters

FiberChannel

Adapters

HEA logical

ports

lpar1 768/768/768 0.2/.4/.4/Uncap 1/2/2/ N/A N/A N/A

Table 5: Storage LUNs for one team lab set

LUN size

LUN type

(shared/

not shared)

Shared between: zoned to: Function

8GB not shared N/A vios1(physical FC) lpar1 rootvg

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Configuration information

The following table describes the configurations of the team lab set.

Table 6: LPARs virtual Storage Adapters configuration for one class lab set

Note: If the Client LPAR/slot numberis not specified, then the connection will be Any.

Virtual SCSI slots are indicated for information only. The CLP team might change that slots

number to facilitate courses integration.

Table 7lists the virtual Network Adapters configuration for one class lab set LPARs on the

managed system(s). Duplicate the table if more than one managed system.Table 7: LPARs virtual Network Adapters configuration for one class lab set

Note: The CLP team might change the adapter slots number and VLAN IDs to facilitate

courses integration.

Software requirements

Table 8lists the images required for the course.

Table 9lists the tools and software needed at the student workstation (usually a remotefacility such as citrix). When preparing for a class, be sure you have the correct number of

licensed copies of any non-IBM software.

LogicalPartition

name

Client LPAR name/Virtual SCSI slot #

VIO server name /Virtual SCSI slot #

vFCServer

slot

ClientLPAR /

vFC slot

VIO / FCadapter

vios1 lpar1/33 vios1/33 N/A N/A N/A

Logical Partitonname

VirtualEthernet

slot

VLANID

AccessExternalnetwork

IEEE802.1Q

HEAPhysicalPort ID

HEAPort

Group

HEAlogicalPort ID

vios1 11 1 Yes No N/A N/A N/Alpar1 12 1 No No N/A N/A N/A

Table 8: mksysb image requirements

Software image name Version (oslevel or ioslevel) lpar

mk_an10_erc2_lpars_71TL0SP1 7100-00-01-xxx lpar1

mk_an10_erc2_vios_2113FP23 2.1.1.3-FP-23 vios1

Table 9: Software for one student lab set

Software product Version Licensing requirement

Firefox latest

Putty recent

VNC Viewer latest

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Table 10 lists the software needed to prepare the host or server machine. Those software

are required to be in the mksysb image(s).

Customization scripts requirements

Table 11lists the scripts required for customizing the mksysb image during the lab setup.

Those scripts are available in the CLP and used during image deployment. .

Customization scripts code

Scripts codes detail

#!/bin/ksh

LOGFILE=/tmp/an10_lpar.logexec 1>>$LOGFILE 2>&1

print Begin run for $* on $(date)

echo $course_code >/etc/course_code

echo "$(date '+%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S') : Start of customization script for

$course_code course"

echo "

# Create the .vnc directory and xstartup script within it

mkdir $1/.vnc

chown $2 $1/.vnc

chgrp $3 $1/.vnc

cat > $1/.vnc/xstartup

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chgrp $3 $1/.vnc/xstartup

chmod +x $1/.vnc/xstartup

" >> /etc/security/mkuser.sys

# The file /usr/share/man/whatis needs to be created

catman -w

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AIX installation instructions

Use the following information, in addition to the normal software installation procedures, to

set up the lab software. Once the hardware is connected, you can begin software

installation.

Instructions on installing AIX can be obtained from the AIX Installation and Migration

Guide. An online copy of the guide is available at:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/aix/v7r1/index.jsp

When going through the AIX Installation Menus, verify that the AIXWindows and CDE

filesets will be installed. Ensure that the Graphics Softwareoption is set to yes, and the

Desktopoption is set to CDE.

AIX configuration tasks

__ 1. A series of normal user accounts now needs to be created, one for each student. If

the number of students is known ahead of time, you can just create enough to

satisfy the class size, plus two extra accounts. Otherwise create at least 24 user

accounts. When creating the accounts divide them evenly across both AIX systems.

Create the user accounts in the following manner:

# mkuser team01

A password will also have to be set for each user account. To set the password

for the new user type:

# passwd team01

on the command line and press Enter. You will be prompted to enter a new

password twice. Use the user name as the password.(team01/team01).

Clear the ADMCHGflag that is set on the user account when the root user

assigns the initial password for the user:

# pwdadm -c team01

Repeat the instructions until all users have been created and passwords set.

Verification procedures

Use the following information to verify the installation and configurations of the AIX

systems.

__ 1. Start up a terminal emulation application on one of the student PCs and connect to

the IP address of the AIX system.

__ 2. Login as one of the user accounts with the appropriate password.

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will ask you to enter a password (twice) for the VNC session, then exit. Run

vncserveragain, and it will start the VNC server session and display the name and

session number. (typically of the form hostname:1).

Start a VNC client from the student PC and connect to the VNC session you just set

up. The client should ask you for your password (the one you just set up), then

display a window with the AIXWindows environment in it (large aixterm and xclock).

Close the VNC client session by closing the window, then return to your terminal

emulator application, and kill the VNC server by typing vncserver -kill

where is the VNC session number. (for example, vncserver -kill :1)

Log out of the user account.

__ 4. Open a new terminal emulator window, and login as rootwith password ibmaix.

__ 5. Display the contents of /etc/passwdto ensure the other user IDs were created by

issuing the following command from the command line:

# more /etc/passwd

__ 6. Access online man pages.

# man tar

This should present information about the tarcommand if the documentation

was installed correctly.

__ 7. Log out of the rootaccount.

__ 8. Verify Internet connectivity from the student PCs.

Open a Web browser, and connect to the AIX 7.1 Infocenter located at:http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/aix/v7r1/index.jsp

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Complete this section if a standard course image is being created for use during delivery of

the course. Document information about the course image that will be needed by IT

support, classroom providers, and instructors to install and verify the image for a class.

Image information

Platform: Intel [ ]

AIX [X]

AS/400 [ ]

MVS/Host [ ]

Network access: Intranet

Network IP configuration: Static

Image login information: User ID: rootPassword: ibmaix

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