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Additional documents of interest

  • Successful Business Continuity - Part 1 - Users and Groups
    This article was published in the April 2005 issue of AIX Update magazine and discusses system administration needs and requirements oriented around users and groups. The overall emphasis of this series of articles is for implementation of enterprise wide unique identifiers for a variety of parameters, such as user names, group names, UID and GID numbers.
  • Successful Business Continuity - Part 2 - Machine and Host Names
    This article was published in the May 2005 issue of AIX Update magazine and discusses naming structures for machines, systems, adapters, and aliases. The overall emphasis of this series of articles is for implementation of enterprise wide unique identifiers for a variety of parameters.
  • Successful Business Continuity - Part 3 - Volume Names
    This article was published in the December 2005 issue of AIX Update magazine and discusses naming structures for volume groups, logical volumes, log logical volumes, directory mount points, etc. The overall emphasis of this series of articles is for implementation of enterprise wide unique identifiers for a variety of parameters.
  • Successful Business Continuity - Part 4 - MQ Series, Startup/Shutdown Scripts, Error Processing
    This article was published in the April 2006 issue of AIX Update magazine and discusses how to implement AIX in an environment dedicated to business continuity. The topic of this article is the assignment of MQ Series queue names and aliases, resource group startup and shutdown script names (Application startup/shutdown script names), error logging, and error notification.
  • Successful Business Continuity - Part 5 - Miscellaneous topics
    This article was published in the August 2006 issue of AIX Update magazine and discusses how to implement AIX in an environment dedicated to business continuity. A variety of topics is discussed in this article including automated documentation generation and management.
  • Automated Microcode Management System
    One of the most difficult administration tasks in an AIX environment is attempting to keep the firmware and microcode up-to-date. Mt Xia has devised an automated method of gathering the Microcode information, determining which microcode needs to be updated, generating reports, and uploading the required microcode updates to each individual system.
  • Calculating the size of a Virtual Processor
    This document describes the algorithms used to calculate the size of a virtual processor when using shared processors in an LPAR. The IBM documentation describes how to calculate CPU utilization, NOT how to size for configuration, this document clarifies this process. A description of the HMC input fields for the processor tab is included.
  • Basics of Partition Load Manager Setup
    This presentation was provided by Ron Barker from IBM regarding the PLM Basic setup.
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  • Group Name Standards

    This document describes the standards for assigning group names and GID numbers in Mt Xia's AIX environment. A single standard has been developed for use in standalone, High Availability, and Disaster Recovery environments. This group naming standard provides the mechanism to assign enterprise wide unique group names to all AIX groups's and will eliminate naming conflicts in the event of a manual or automated failover, or if multiple instances of an application are running on a single server.

    Groups are normally divided into two major categories on a Unix system, administration and normal user groups. Applications such as databases, SAP, MQSeries, etc may require an administration group. With each new group created on a Unix system a group ID number is assigned to that group, this group ID number is referred to as the GID number and is normally unique to that group on that one Unix system. When building highly available and/or recoverable systems, the group name and GID number must be enterprise wide unique values. Therefore a centralized group management system must be implemented to manage groups and GID numbers to ensure that no two groups have the same group name or UID number.

    This centralized group management function is performed in Mt Xia's environment by LDAP. All group requests and assignments must be performed through the centralized group management system via the LDAP servers.

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