IBM AIX - Advanced System Administration (AIX2)

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This IBM AIX advanced administration course is for administrators who want to deepen skills in system administration, troubleshooting and operational tools. Participants learn practical methods to manage and monitor complex AIX environments and handle real-world issues efficiently.

Course covers deep use of ODM, advanced LVM management, boot and start procedures, and system diagnostics. Practical labs show backup methods, WPARs, error monitoring and dump handling to prepare you for real AIX operational challenges.

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• Introduction to advanced AIX administration
1. General procedures for system administration, monitoring and troubleshooting

• Object Data Manager (ODM)
1. Purpose of ODM and types of records stored in ODM
2. Structure and organization in ODM: classes and objects
3. Using commands to work with ODM
4. Examples of records in common object classes

• System initialization and boot
1. Description of POWER server initialization
2. Initialization of FSP and hypervisor, preparing LPARs to start
3. Activating an LPAR and starting AIX
4. Working with the boot device list (bootlist)
5. The three phases of AIX boot
6. Analysis and resolution of common boot problems
7. Maintenance and single-user mode

• Device management and system configuration
1. Terminology for device handling
2. Listing devices and their configuration
3. Changing device configuration
4. Adding and removing devices from the system
5. Device addressing

• Advanced LVM management
1. Principles and terminology of logical volume management (LVM)
2. Activation/deactivation, export/import of volume groups
3. LVM metadata: VGDA, VGSA, LVCB
4. Quorum
5. Relations between LVM metadata and the ODM database
6. Examples of LVM issues and their resolution
7. Practical procedures for disk replacement

• Advanced backup tools
1. Alternate disk installation
2. System cloning
3. Online backups using split mirrors
4. Online backups using snapshots

• Workload Partitions (WPARs)
1. Purpose and types of WPARs
2. Creating and managing WPARs
3. Starting and stopping WPARs
4. Logging in, running and monitoring processes inside WPARs

• Error monitoring
1. Working with errdemon
2. Working with syslogd
3. Sample errorlog entries and alert configuration

• Diagnostics
1. The diag command
2. Diagnostic modes
3. Reading diagnostic reports

• Dump
1. Types and dump configuration
2. Configuring the dump device; sysdumpdev and dumpcheck commands
3. Creating a dump and post-dump operations

Assumed knowledge:

Basic AIX administration knowledge (introductory course level).

Recommended previous course:

IBM AIX - System Administration (AIX1)

Recommended subsequent course:

IBM AIX - Shell Programming (AIX3)

Schedule:

5 days (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM )

Course price:

1 680.00 € (2 032.80 € incl. 21% VAT)

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