AIX Training

Mt Xia offers an intermediate course for system administrators, implementers, and managers of pSeries systems.

Skills Taught

• Install the AIX 5L Version 5.3 operating system, software bundles, and filesets
• Perform system startup and shutdown
• Understand and use the system management tools
• Manage physical and logical devices
• Perform file systems management
• Create and manage user and group accounts
• Perform and restore system backups
• Utilize administrative subsystems, including cron to schedule system tasks, and security to implement customized access of files and directories
• Describe basic AIX networking concepts

Course Outline

• Introduction (overview of pSeries)
• System management tools - System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) and the Web-based System Manager
• Software installation and management
• System startup and shutdown devices
• Printers and queues
• Managing queues
• System storage overview
• Working with the Logical Volume Manager
• Working with file systems
• Managing file systems
• Paging space
• Backup and restore
• Security
• User administration
• Scheduling
• Networking overview

Please contact Dana French for more information.