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A 4-day training course aimed at teaching delegates advanced administration, troubleshooting and security skills so they become expert administrators of IBM Power P servers running AIX version 5, 6 or 7.

AudiencePrerequisitesLearning ObjectivesTable of content
Senior system administrators who must perform advanced administration and troubleshooting tasks and be able to enhance the system security.
Strong knowledge of AIX system coupled with at least 3 years of advanced administration.

You can acquire the prerequisites by taking our other AIX courses:

AIX – Initiation

AIX – Foundations

AIX – Advanced

– Understand and configure:
the boot process,
the ‘rc’ boot phases,
the ‘cfgmgr’command and
the ‘shdaemon’ process
– Use the ‘error log’ facility
– Run diagnostics
– Execute and manage system dumps
– Run AIX performance related commands
– Configure and use the Performance Diagnostic Tools
– Configure and use Access Control Lists
– Configure and use the Trusted Computing Base
Unit 1: System initialization

The boot process:
– Boot image load
– The Bootlist and Boot Logical Volume
– Corrupted Boot Logical Volume
– Working with boot lists
The 3 rc boot phases
The ‘/etc/inittab’ file
The ‘cfgmgr’ command:
– Role
– ODM components
– Output
The ‘shdaemon’ process:
– Role
– Configuration
System Management Services
Accessing a system that does not boot:
– Maintenance boot from hard disk
– Maintenance boot from tape or CD
– Accessing a Volume Group and starting a shell
– Accessing a Volume Group without mounting its filesystems
Firmware Checkpoints and LED/LCD codes:
– Installing Firmware updates
– Interpreting LED error codes
– Location of LED codes
SCSI Addressing
Boot problem management

Unit 2: Problem solving tools and techniques
Unit 3: Performance and Workload Management
Unit 4: The Performance Diagnostic Tools
Unit 5: Advanced Security features

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