AIX System Administration

Length: 5 Days

Audience: System Administors, those who wish to be System Administrators and anyone else who will asked to perform administrative tasks in an AIX environment.

Prerequisites: Fundamentals of AIX or equivalent experience.

Overview: Attendees of this course will learn how to perform most day-to-day system administration tasks. Topics include system startup and shutdown, adding/deleting users, installing terminals, modems, and printers, backing up and restoring system and user data, application package installation, security, and general administrative advice. A diskette containing helpful System Administration utilities and guidelines is also provided to each attendee.

Upon completion of this course you will be able to:

• start up and shut down a AIX system gracefully,
• monitor system status to determine correct operation,
• add and delete user accounts and groups,
• add and configure terminals and printers,
• create new filesystems, check the integrity of filesystems, and repair damaged filesystems,
• perform complete and incremental filesystem backups and restores,
• identify AIX floppy and tape device special files,
• use the cpio and tar archive programs for data storage and retrieval,
• set up and use the cron and at facilities,
• install the AIX operating system.
  

OVERVIEW OF SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION

Duties of the system administrator
AIX system administration commands and utilities
Configuration files and scripts
Log files

SYSTEM STARTUP AND SHUTDOWN

Applying power
Run levels
Setting the date and time
Checking system status
System shutdown

ADDING AND DELETING USERS

The /etc/passwd and /etc/group files
Adding a new user
Setting up a user's .profile file.
Deleting a user

MAINTAINING FILE SYSTEMS

Monitoring disk space
Checking file systems
Creating new file systems
Mounting/unmounting file systems

ADDING PERIPHERALS TO THE SYSTEM

Terminals
Printers
Modems

DISK/TAPE MANAGEMENT

Disk/Tape Devices
The tar command
The cpio command

PERFORMING FILE BACKUPS AND RESTORES

Backup strategies
Using the cpio and tar commands.
Backing up file systems.
Restoring files.

TASK SCHEDULING

The cron demon.
The at command.

OPERATING SYSTEM INSTALLATION

Pre-Installation Tasks
Installing the base operating system
Installing additional packages

COURSE CONCLUSION