AIX Fundamentals
Duration
5 hours
Overview
This course is designed to provide a system administrator with no prior AIX experience an introduction to the background and the fundamental components of AIX. The course covers essential knowledge including concepts, system access and management, and commonly used administrative commands.
Audience
New AIX Administrators or learners with an interest in understanding AIX environments.
Prerequisites
No prior knowledge is assumed, however it is expected that the learner will have at least some familiarity with elements of IT infrastructure, e.g. servers, networks, storage.
Objectives
After completing this course, the student should be able to:
- Understand the concepts and components of AIX
- Manage typical AIX administration tasks
- Understand how to access an AIX system
- Describe how to use the vi editor and the shell
- Describe commonly used utilities and commands
Course Content
Concepts of AIX
Introduction to AIX
The Role of the AIX System Administrator
Typical AIX Administration Tasks
Documentation Resources
AIX Systems - Management, Installation, and Backup
AIX, POWER Hardware, and Virtualization
The Shell and vi Editor
Accessing an AIX System
Using SMIT
Getting Started with AIX
Networking
Security
The LVM and Storage
AIX Filesystems and the Logical Volume Manager
Concepts of File Systems and File Permissions
The Logical Volume Manager Explained
Volume Groups, Logical Volumes, and File Systems
More AIX Concepts, Utilities, and Commands
Users and Groups
Processes and Jobs
AIX Utilities
Commonly User Administrator Commands
