Power Systems for AIX III: Advanced Administration and Problem Determination

Learn advanced AIX system administrator skills focusing on availability and problem determination. Learn detailed knowledge of the ODM database where AIX maintains configuration information. Learn to monitor for and deal with AIX problems with emphasis on Logical Volume Manager problems, including procedures for replacing disks. Learn how to migrate AIX Workload Partitions to another system with minimal disruption. While the course includes some AIX 6.1 enhancements, most of the material is applicable to prior releases of AIX. Unit 1 - Advanced AIX administration overview Exercise 1 Unit 2 - The Object Data Manager Exercise 2 Unit 3 - Error monitoring Exercise 3 Unit 4 - Network Installation Manager basics Exercise 4 Unit 5 - System initialization: Part I Exercise 5 Unit 6 - System initialization: Part II Exercise 6 Unit 7 - Disk management theory Exercise 7 Unit 8 - Disk management procedures Exercise 8 Unit 8 continued Exercise 8 continued Unit 9 - Install and backup techniques Exercise 9 Unit 10 - Workload partitions Exercise 10 Exercise 10 continued Unit 11 - The AIX system dump facility Exercise 11 - System dump facility