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