Learn to install, customize and administer the AIX operating system in a multi-user POWER (System p) partitioned environment.

The course is based on AIX 7 running on a Power system managed by Hardware Management Console Version 7 and provides practical discussions that are appropriate to earlier AIX releases.

You should be able to use basic UNIX commands including:

• Execute basic AIX commands
• Manage files and directories
• Use the vi editor
• Use redirection, pipes, and tees
• Use the utilities find and grep
• Use command and variable substitution
• Set and change Korn shell variables
• Write simple shell scripts

These skills can be acquired by attending AIX Basics or through equivalent AIX/UNIX knowledge.

You should also have experience administering a UNIX operating system (such as Solaris, HP/UX, and others) including:

• User management and system security
• Storage
• Networking
• System shutdown and restart
• Backup and recovery
• System task scheduling

• Install the AIX operating system, filesets, and RedHat Package Manager (RPM) packages
• Perform system startup and shutdown
• Discuss and use system management tools such as System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) and IBM systems director console for AIX
• Manage physical and logical devices
• Discuss the purpose of the logical volume manager
• Perform logical volume and file system management
• Perform and restore system backups
• Use the AIX error log as a tool in problem determination
• Configure TCP/IP networking