Basic IBM AIX Training

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IBM-AIX workshop at Cympac Software Solutions

Part#1 AU13
  • Introduction to AIX Hardware
  • Overview of UNIX operating system
  • Basic UNIX commands
Part#2 & 3: AU14 and AU16

We would like to take a honor in announcing and declaring the Pioneer Institute and the only one AIX Training Provider with complete Hardware Setup all over Pune and in one of the best Institutes across India.

Total Course Duration: 45 to 60 Days

Introduction:
  • 520 H/W information
  • IBM Power Systems and pSeries introduction
  • Using Hardware Management Console (HMC)
  • Flexible Service processor(FSP)
  • Advance System Management Interface (ASMI)
  • Start/stop AIX Operating system on a LPAR from HMC
Object Data Manager and Devices:
  • ODM why it is used and how to Backup ODM
  • Device configuration disconfiguration cycle in AIX
  • Adding/removing a hot plug device in AIX using configuration manager
  • Using ODM commands: lsdev, lscfg, lsconf, chdev,cfgmgr
  • ODM Device classes and Software VPD

Logical Volume Manager (LVM):
  • How LVM is organised in AIX
  • Drawbacks of traditional partitions Vs. Advantages of AIX LVM
  • Concepts: Physical volume, VolumeGroup, Logical Volume, Physical Partition, Logical Partition
  • Concepts: VGDA LVCB VGSA
  • rootvg and BOS Logival Volumes
  • Types of Logical Volumes and their use
  • PV, VG, LV characteristics
  • Varyon and Varyoff concepts and Quorum
  • Import and export of VGs
  • Create LV copies and mirroring of VGs
  • Remove failed PV from mirrored rootvg
  • Migrating data on a PV to another PV
  • Using syncvg, reorgvg, synclvodm commands
  • Changing volume group type
  • Running FSCK and defragfs on Filesystems
  • PV characteristics. Availability/ Allocation / VGDA / Max Request / PP distribution

AIX Filesystem Management:
  • Different types of AIX filesystems
  • JFS and JFS2 filesystems differences
  • Creating and mounting AIX jfs/jfs2 filesystems
  • extending / reducing filesystems
  • Changing mount point of filesystem
  • Managing jfslog / jfs2log devices
  • Running filesystem checks

AIX Storage Concepts
  • Host Bus Adapter and fibre SCSI
  • AIX connection with storage concept
  • Multipathing concepts

Paging and Dump:
  • AIX paging space designing
  • Adding / removing / extending / reducing paging space
  • Listing paging space utilization / information
  • Mirroring paging space and quorum changes
  • Taking a system dump from HMC
  • Remove failed disk in mirrored pagingvg
  • Dump devices and dump significance
  • Dump devices in mirrored rootvg
  • Configure primary and secondary dump devices in rootvg

SMIT and using SMIT:
  • SMIT concept and using smit from console and GUI
  • SMIT fastpaths

Networking AIX:
  • Networking devices and their initial configuration
  • Changing Speed/Duplex and IP settings
  • Etherchannel concepts and configuration
  • Manage routing table in AIX
  • Changing default gateway

Software Installation:
  • Fileset, package, License Program Product and BOS
  • Software installtion commands and modes of software install
  • Listing packages and filesets on installation media
  • Listing information about installed software
  • Install efix

Software Maintenance:
  • Introduction on APAR, ML, TL, SP and use
  • Software maintenance commands
  • AIX Upgrade considerations
  • Upgrade AIX system to a new Technology and service patch levels
  • Install GNU opensurce Linux softwares in AIX

Network File System:
  • Share a directory from one LPAR
  • Mount the NFS share on AIX
  • NFS communication troubleshooting

System Resource Controller
  • AIX Subsystems and Groups
  • Managing inetd subsystems
  • Running FTP server
  • Start / Stop services using SRC

Diag and error reporting
  • Error logging fascility
  • Use errpt to locate failed hardware/software
  • Remove/replace failed hardware and update errlog
  • Using diag to analyse error log

AIX Booting Process:
  • Inittab file and AIX runlevels
  • Phases of booting
  • Changing timezones
  • Boot system from either 32 bit or 64 bit kernel
  • Troubleshooting booting related problem
  • Read boot log

AIX Installation:
  • Pre and Post installation tasks
  • AIX BOS installation on an lpar
  • Difference between migration and preservation
  • New and complete overwrite installation

User Management:
  • User management concept
  • AIX Security files
  • Troubleshooting common login problems
  • User password and login policies

MISC:
  • Backup directories and files
  • Job scheduling using cron, at, batch
  • Using nohup, jobs
  • Using snap command
  • Using topas, vmstat, iostat, svmon, vmo, nfso, no
  • Install rpms
  • Using X server in AIX

HMC (Hardware Management Console):
  • HMC models and introduction
  • HMC shutdown/startup
  • Create new lpar and install AIX
  • Boot/shutdown LPAR via HMC using GUI or command line
  • Introduction to VIOS and Hypervisor


Usual Batch Timings:

Morning: 8:00 to 9:30
Evening:7:30 to 9:30
Days: Monday to Saturday

Practical Timings:

Morning: 10:00 to Evening 8:30
Days:Monday to Saturday



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