Develop advanced AIX system administrator skills with a focus on availability, problem determination, and Logical Volume Manager issues.

Course Objectives

  • Perform system problem determination and reporting procedures that include analyzing error logs, creating memory dumps of the system, and providing needed data to the AIX Support personnel
  • Examine and manipulate Object Data Manager databases
  • Identify and resolve conflicts between the Logical Volume Manager (LVM) disk structures and the Object Data Manager (ODM)
  • Complete a basic configuration of Network Installation Manager to provide network boot support for either system installation or booting to maintenance mode
  • Identify various types of boot and disk failures and perform the matching recovery procedures

Upcoming Schedules

Course Prerequisites

Recommended

  • Manage additional software and base operating system updates
  • Use of the Hardware Management Console (HMC) to activate a logical partition to run AIX and to access the AIX system console
  • Familiarity with management tools such as SMIT
  • Install an AIX operating system from an already configured NIM server
  • Implementation of AIX backup and recovery

Course Outline

Module: 1
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  • Advanced AIX administration overview Exercise 1: Problem diagnostic information Unit 2: The Object Data Manager