1. INDUSTRIAL UNIX-AIX COURSE OUTLINES AND SYLLABUS Document Version: 2.0 Created: 09/19/2009 Modified: 11/09/2014 Author: Walter Takang Confirmed by: Walter Takang

2. Week one Introduction to Unix The different flavors of Unix The IBM version of Unix-Aix HMC (Hardware Management Console) DLPAR Dedicated CPU Shared CPU Micro-Partitioning Introduction to IBM Power Systems (Pseries) How to create IBM LPAR (Logical Partition) Hypervisor HMC default username and Password

3. Week one cont’d Chapter 1: Certification Overview pSeries Aix system administration (Aix 7.1 Certification exam) What is needed for the Certification examination Certification education courses Education on CD-ROM IBM AIX Essentials

4. Week two Different methods to authenticate to Unix systems Remote access (VPN) granted for students to IBM Power Servers running AIX6.1 and AIX7.1 (Latest Version), and to Hardware Management Console (HMC) Introduction to IBM VIO Servers Special properties of VIO Servers How to configure a VIO Server Different ways to share disks/SAN/Storage NPIV SEA (Shared Ethernet adapter) How to create vhost and its role. VLAN technology Mapping of VIO Server to Client LPARs through their VHOSTs

5. Week three Files and Directories What is a file What is a directory What is a symbolic link How to create a file How to delete a file How to rename a file How to edit a file (vi editor and sudo visudo for sudoers) File permissions How to create a directory Changing directories How to delete a directory Permission of a directory

6. Week three cont’d File transfer protocol (FTP) IBM FTP Web servers Files and Directories ownership and how to change ownership

7. Week four Chapter 12: Systems Performance and Capacity Management Performance Monitoring software Threshold values Performance related parameters/metrics: CPU, Memory, File Systems, disk space utilization, Network parameters Complete processes on Performance tuning of Unix Systems How to address performance related CPU issues How address performance related memory issues: pagingspace – page-out and page-in How to address performance related File Systems issues How to address disk space utilization issues

8. Week four cont’d Chapter 7: System Paging Space Real or Physical memory Virtual memory Disk area occupied by paging space Swap Space Free Page queue Page stealing Paging Space and logical volume Paging Space Calculation (Basic arithmetic) Computational Memory File Memory Minperm, maxperm, maxclient, minfree, and maxfree

9. Week five Chapter 13: User Administration Users Groups User administration related files How to create a user How to unlock/lock a user account How to reset a user account How to remove a user account How to give sudo rights to non Unix administrators Important Unix files and groups

10. Week five cont’d Unix Hardware commands: The prtconf command #prtconf #prtconf | more #man prtconf The lsdev command #lsdev –Cc disk #lsdev –Cc tape #lsdev –Cc cdrom #lsdev –Cc adapter #lsdev –Cc adapter | grep ent #lsdev –Cc adapter | grep fcs

11. Week five cont’d #lsdev –Cc processor #lsdev –Cc memory #man lsdev The lscfg command #lscfg –vl hdisk# #lscfg –vl rmt# #lscfg –vl cd# #lscfg –vl fcs# #lscfg –vl ent# #lscfg –vl mem# #lscfg –vl proc#

12. Week five cont’d The lsattr command #lsattr –El hdisk# #lsattr –El cd# #lsattr –El rmt# #lsattr –El mem# #lsattr –El proc# #lsattr –El fcs# #lsattr –El ent# The oslevel command #oslevel #oslevel –s #oslevel -r

13. Week five #man oslevel #lparstat –i The rmdev command #rmdev –Rdl hdisk# #rmdev –dl hdisk# The nslookup and uptime commands #nslookup systemname #uptime

14. Week six Chapter 4: Systems and Software installation Three types of base AIX operating system installation - New and complete overwrite installation - migration installation - preservation installation Advance installation option Installing package set or desktop Enable Trusted Computing Base (TCB) Enable 64-bit kernel and JFS2

15. Week six cont’d Understanding maintenance level Software Packaging Filesets Packages Licensed Program Product (lpp) Bundles PTFs and APARs Patches (smitty update_all) installp command Software installation IBM Fix Central PMR FTP

16. Week six cont’d Chapter 8: System backups, restores, and availability Important backup commands mksysb backup (for rootvg only) #smitty mksysb savevg command for non rootvg volume groups Restoring rootvg and non rootvg backups Creating a bootable rootvg image in the NIM Server

17. Week seven Chapter 6: Storage Management, LVM, and File Systems /Chapter 5 ODM Logical Volume Storage Concepts Logical volume Manager Disk quorum Disk mirroring ODM (Object Data Manager) Volume group Logical Volume Physical volume (Physical Disk) Physical Partitions File Systems

18. Week eight HACMP (POWERHA) is IBM Clustering Software What is HACMP Advantages of HACMP Cluster Node C-SPOC Shared Volume group Concurrent Volume group Resource group Building 2 Nodes HACMP (POWERHA) Cluster HACMP Commands

19. Week nine Chapter 10: Network administration Basic Network Commands Daemons DNS (Domain Name Server) How to replace a failed network card How to configure the system Network How to identify Network problems How to address the internet The format of an IP address Calculation is based on the conversion from Binary to Decimal Internet address classes Class determination Host name resolution

20. Week ten Chapter 11: Network File Systems (NFS) Administration NFS Services Planning, Installation, and Configuration of NFS Exporting NFS directories Exporting an NFS dircctory using text editor Exporting an NFS directory temporarily Unexporting an NFS Directory Mounting an NFS Dirctory Mounting an NFS directory explicitly Mounting the NFS directory automatically Parameters Administration of NFS Servers and Clients List of NFS commands

21. Week ten cont’d NFS problems determination

22. Week eleven Chapter 9: System resource controller administration Starting the SRC Restarting SRC The startsrc command The syslogd daemon Refreshing a daemon The cron daemon

23. Week eleven cont’d Chapter 2: system Startup Problem Handling Basics Commands throughout the chapter Boot process Power on sequence, LEDs, and audio signals Useful Commands Using the cfgmgr command Using the last command Using the bootlist command Using the uptime command Using the mpcfg command Troubleshooting boot problems Accessing a system that will not boot

24. Week twelve Chapter 3: Hardware Assistance Listing Hardware Devices Configuring System devices System management services Hardware device compatibility Using the lsattr command Using smitty/smit with devices The system error log Setting up an ASCII Terminal

25. Week twelve cont’d Chapter 14: Printer Services Creating a new print queue The print configuration file Controlling the print queue Stopping the print queue Starting the print queue Flushing the print job How to check the print spooler Setting out the time on the printer Basic printer diagnostic checklist

26. Week thirteen Chapter 15: sendmail and e-mail Overview of mail system Mail daemons Mail queue directory /var/spool/mqueue Mail logs Mail aliasing and forwarding Mail addressing Storing mail Mail administrator’s reference

27. Week fourteen Chapter 16: online documentation Installing the web browser Installing documentation search service Chapter 17: AIXwindows font server XFS server interrupts XFS keywords XFS form conventions XFS command flags XFS font serverexamples