Documentation

• Mt Xia Business Continuity Documentation
• Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002
• HACMP Introduction
• Standardized Project Template
• Automated Microcode Management System
• Menugen - Automated Web Site Generator
• Automated Documentation Content Generator
• IBM AIX - Advanced Interactive Executive
• Disaster Recovery Planning for the Enterprise
• IBM HACMP - High Availability Clustered Multi-Processing
• IBM NIM - Network Install Manager
• IBM PLM - Partition Load Manager
• Shell Programming
• Storage
• Unix / Linux
• Partition Load Manager (PLM) Design: Slide Presentation

Publications

• IBM Developer Works


January 2009: Enterprise Wide Unique Identifiers for Business Continuity A discussion of "Enterprise Wide Unique" (EWU) identifiers as they are needed in supporting a business continuity environment. These identifiers provide a mechanism of ensuring a single value for a parameter that must be unique across an entire enterprise. The purpose of this article is to show the value of generating or calculating these values on an as needed basis rather than recording and maintaning these values in spreadsheets and databases. ()
November 2008: Naming Standards for Business Continuity - In today's partitioned and virtualized computing environments, the requirement for naming standards is more apparent than ever before. Unfortunately there is a wide spread lack of understanding between the different categories of names used to identify managed systems, LPAR's, profiles, node names, host names, and aliases. This article defines naming categories and provide standards for creating enterprise wide unique names associated with each category. This article also explains why it is important to distinguish between the different naming categories and how they are an integral part of data center automation projects and an overall business continuity plan. (url)
September 2008: KornShell 93 Auditing - New features of the Korn Shell provide system administrators and management with the ability to monitor, track, record, and audit every command executed by any user of a system. This is different from normal the normal shell history, and provides detailed information that includes date, time, tty, user, and the command. This information can be stored locally or transmitted in real time to a remote logging system. (url)
Mar 2008: Shell Curses Function Library - Provides the shell programmer the ability to perform text-based cursor movements to specified locations on the screen. This ability permits the creation of menuing and data-entry systems using shell scripts without the need for compiled binaries. These functions are similar to the "C" language "Curses" library. (url)
Sep 2007: AIX disaster recovery - Resolving resource conflicts - This article identifies resource conflicts that typically occur during a disaster recovery implementation and provides suggestions for resolving these conflicts. (url)

• AIX Update Journal
  unpublished: Virtualization Standards for Business Continuity: Part 10 (pdf)
  Mar 2008: Virtualization Standards for Business Continuity: Part 9 (pdf)
  Feb 2008: Virtualization Standards for Business Continuity: Part 8 (pdf)
  Nov 2007: Virtualization Standards for Business Continuity: Part 7 (pdf)
  Sep 2007: Virtualization Standards for Business Continuity: Part 6 (pdf)
  Aug 2007: Virtualization Standards for Business Continuity: Part 5 (pdf)
  May 2007: Virtualization Standards for Business Continuity: Part 4 (pdf)
  Mar 2007: Virtualization Standards for Business Continuity: Part 3 (pdf)
  Feb 2007: Virtualization Standards for Business Continuity: Part 2 (pdf)
  Dec 2006: Virtualization Standards for Business Continuity: Part 1 ((pdf))
  Aug 2006: Successful Business Continuity: Automated Documentation (doc)
  Jul 2006: Automated Process Monitoring (ksh93)
  May 2006: Tracking disks and vSCSI adapters in a VIOS environment (ksh93)
  Apr 2006: Generate Secure Random Passwords (ksh93)
  Apr 2006: Successful Business Continuity: Websphere MQ (doc)
  Feb 2006: Setting Path Priorities for Virtualized Disks (ksh93)
  Feb 2006: Korn Shell Awk Emulation (ksh93)
  Nov 2005: Successful Business Continuity: Volume Names (doc)
  May 2005: Successful Business Continuity: Naming Structures (doc)
  Apr 2005: Successful Business Continuity: User Names and Groups (doc)

• Mt Xia Publishing
  2008: Mt Xia Dictionary: Definition of Terms (html)
  2007: Disaster Recovery: Quick Reference Card (doc)
  2007: ksh93 Quick Reference Guide: Testing and Substitutions (pdf)
  2007: ksh93 Quick Reference Guide: Built-in Commands (pdf)
  2007: ksh93 Quick Reference Guide: set and unset Commands (pdf)
  2007: ksh93 Quick Reference Guide: typeset Command (pdf)

• Lulu Publishing
  2007: Virtualization for Business Continuity (in IBM AIX environments) (Book)
  2007: Advanced Korn Shell Programming (Book)

• Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
  Business Continuity: Dana French is the author of the Wikipedia article on the topic of " Business Continuity". (url)

Slide Shows

Mt Xia Publishing

• vLPAR: Introduction to Virtual Logical Partition Automated Robot (html)
• NIM: Network Installation Manager Server Design (html)
• PLM: Partition Load Manager Server Design (html)
• HACMP: High Availability Clustered Multi-Processing (html)
• SLA: Service Level Agreements by Mt Xia (html)
• WLM: AIX Workload Manager Design by Mt Xia (html)
• Storage: Storage Design for Business Continuity by Mt Xia (html)
• VC: Venture Capital Investors Presentation Template (html)
• BIA: Business Impact Analysis Outline by Mt Xia (html)

Most of the standards described by the following are obsolete. Click here for the current standards.

Contained here are numerous standards, procedures, and best practices developed over many years of working with AIX/Unix/Linux.