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2. Introduction and Review
• Review of UNIX Concepts
• Review of the history of AIX
AIX Documentation
• Manual Pages
• Browsable Manual Pages
• AIX Information Center
• AIX Message Center
• Hardware Documentation
Administration Interface
• Using SMIT
• SMIT Screen Types
• SMIT and CDE
• Web Based System Manager
(WebSM)
• System Director Console
Starting and Stopping the System
• General Overview
• Operator Panel (older & newer
systems)
• Power On Switch
• Key Mode (Physical) Switch -
(older systems)
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• Three Digit (LED) Display - (older
systems)
• LCD Display (16*2-rows-
characters) - PCI Systems
• Problem Determination
• Normal IPL
• System Management Services
• Normal IPL And init
• Run Levels
• The /etc/inittab File
• Multi-User State
• The /etc/rc File
• Commands associated with
/etc/inittab
• System Shutdown
• The Sync Command
• The Shutdown Command
System Configuration
• Objectives
• Setting the Timezone
• Setting the System Time & date
• Changing the System Name
• Viewing System ID Information
• Establishing Basic Network
Settings
User Registration
• User Login Account
• Adding a User
• The /etc/passwd file
• The /etc/group file
• mkuser Command
• Sample /etc/security/user File
• Sample /etc/security/login.cfg File
• Sample /etc/security/passwd File
• Change User Characteristics
• Removing a User From the System
• rmuser Command
• The User Environment
• Communicating with Users
• News Items
• SMIT/WebSM and User
Management
Disk Management
• The disk
• Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
• Physical Volume
3. • Listing Physical Volumes
• Volume Group (VG) and Types of
Volume Group
• Listing Volume Groups
• Logical Volume
• Listing Logical Volumes
• Make Logical Volume
• Extend a Logical Volume
• Mirror a Logical Volume
• SMIT and Logical Volume Manager
File System
• File Systems
• Journaled File System -The jfs and
jfs2
• Filesystem
• File System Components
• File Allocation
• File System Creation
• Sample /etc/filesystems File
• Change File System Characteristics
• Listing a File System
• Mount the Filesystem
• Unmount the Filesystem
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• Removing the File System
• File System creation using SMIT
• Special Files
• FIFO Special Files
• Block Device Files
• Character Device Files
• Disk Usage Commands
• File System Check (fsck)
• File System Identification
• Standard File Tree
• Paging Space Recommendations
• Monitoring Disk Usage
Devices
• Object Data Manager
• Device Dependencies
• Device States
• Device Location Codes
• Device File Creation
• List Devices
• Change Device Characteristics
• Remove Devices
• Adding a Device Using
SMIT/WebSM
Printer Administration
• Print Queues
• Queue Set-up
• The /etc/qconfig File
• Make Queue
• Make Queue Device
• Virtual Printers
• Using Enq Command For Queue
Management
• Using Enq Command For Requests
• Printer Related Commands
• Line Printer Status
• Printing Files
• Cancel Print Request
• Enable Printer
• Disable Printer
• Printer Management Using
SMIT/WebSM
• The SystemV Print Subsystem
Processes and Task Scheduling
• Processes
• Report Process Status
• Allocating Priority
4. • Changing Priority
• Kill a Process
• The Nohup Command
• Scheduling Tasks
• Files and Directories used by Cron
• The Crontab Command
Basic Performance Monitoring
• The Dimensions of System
Performance
• Virtual Memory
• Paging
• Adding Paging Space
• Monitoring memory Usage
• CPU Usage
• I/O Usage
• Processes
Archiving and Securing the System
• Backups
• Pathname Considerations
• CPIO
• Tar Command
• Backup Command
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• Restore Command
• SMIT and System Storage
Management
• The savevg and restvg Commands
• Backup a Volume Group
• Restore a Volume Group
• Back Up the System – mksysb
• Restore the System from a mksysb
Software Installation & Emergency
Recovery
• General Overview
• Preparing for Installation
• Software Installation
• AIX Packaging
• Software Product Identification
• Methods of Installation
• Accessing a System That will Not
Boot from Hard disk
• System recovery using mksys tape
• Installation Concepts
• Software Maintenance: (PTFs,
APARs etc.)