Welcome To Cympac And Thanks For The AIX Training Inquiry At Cympac!

Basic of IBM AIX Training

We would like to take a honor in announcing and declaring the Pioneer Institute and the only one AIX Trainer all over Pune and in one of the best Institutes across India.

Total Course Duration: 1 to 1.2 month

Introduction:

• 520 H/W information
• Power systems history
• Risc x Cisc difference
• Hot plug and hot swap devices
• Topics covered in entire course
• HMC brief concept
• Service processor and ASMI
• Accessing and using ASMI with https
• Remote server start/stop with ASMI

 Object data manager and devices:

• ODM why it is used and how to Backup ODM
• Device configuration disconfiguration cycle in AIX
• Adding a hot plug device in AIX
• Safely remove a device in AIX
• Using commands: lsdev, lscfg, lsconf, chdev
• Effect of running cfgmgr

 LVM (Part - I):

• Drawbacks of traditional partition based scheme Vs. advantages of LVM
• AIX LVM concept
• What is Physical volume, VolumeGroup, Logical Volume, Physical Partition, Logical Partition
• rootvg logical volumes
• AIX File system types (cdrfs, jfs/jfs2, nfs, mmfs)
• AIX Logical volume types
• Add a disk to system and convert it to PV and add to VG or create a new VG
• Craete a new volume group
• Create a logical volume and create a filesystem on the LV
• Create jfs/jfs2 File Systems on existing LVs (also create jfs/jfs2 log LVs anf format them with logform)
• Running FSCK and defragfs on Filesystems

 LVM (Part - II):

• PV characteristics. Availability/ Allocation / VGDA / Max Request / PP distribution
• VG charachteristics Quorum / BB relocation
• What varyon and varyoff?
• Important LVM data collection commands
• LP copy. Stale PP. VGSA. syncvg
• VG mirroring / unmirroring
• Scenario: mirror rootvg and boot from second disk
• Remove failed disk from mirrored VG (rootvg / nonrootvg)
• mklvcopy / splitlvcopy

 LVM (Part - III):

• t - factor
• Increase max LP per LV
• Increase Max PP per PV
• Convert VG type
• LV characteristics Intrapolicy / Interpolicy / LVCB / Upperbound etc
• SAN reclaim and migratepv
• How to safely migrate rootvg logical volumes
• syncvg, reorgvg, synclvodm
• /etc/filesystems file explaination
• SAN :HBA (Firware check and update) and MPIO concept and commands, SAN Reclaim, WWPN number, SAN architecture
• Import / Export VG concept and scenario

 SMIT and using SMIT:

• SMIT fastpaths
• Error logging facility and syslog
• Use errpt to locate failed hardware/software
• Copy errpt log file to different system and read it there.
• Remove/replace failed hardware
• Use errpt and diag while replacing failed disks
• Replace faulty power supply
• Effect of loss of A.C. Power
• Replace faulty memory
• Syslog facility
• Configure syslog in AIX

 Paging and Dump:

• AIX paging space designing
• Adding / removing paging space
• listing paging space utilization
• mirroring pagingvg
• Scenario to create a new paging space in mirrored pagingvg
• Remove failed disk in mirrored pagingvg
• Dump devices and taking dump manually
• Configure primary and secondary dump devices in root vg

 AIX Booting Process:

• Inittab file and aix run levels
• Commands: bootlist / bootinfo / bosboot / savebase
• Changing time zones

 Virtualization:

• VIO concepts and IVM
• Install VIO and manage it with IVM
• Create lpar and install aix on lpar using IVM
• Shared ethernet adapter implementation to connect lpared network with external LAN
• Create virtual physical disk drives with VIO commands

 Networking AIX:

• Networking devices and configuration
• Assign IP, hostname, change speed duplex settings
• Add /delete static routes
• Change system hostname
• Disconfigure entire TCP/IP quickly

 Software Installation:

• Fileset, package, License Program Product and BOS
• Software installtion commands and modes of software install
• Listing packages and filesets on installation media
• lslpp command
• Fixing software installation issues

 Software Maintenance:

• Apar ptf ml tl sp in details
• Software maintenance commands
• Install openssh and RPMS

 System services and SRC:

• FTP server TFTP server Bootp Server
• NFS and create NFS server on AIX
• User Administration
• Printers
• Job scheduling with cron

 Aix Problem Determination Procedure:

• Running diagnostics
• Using nmon to collect performance data
• Commands: topas , vmstat , iostat, lvmstat, svmon, vmo, nfso, no, svmon and /etc/tunables file
• Job scheduling with cron

 NIM Concepts and Scenario:

• Types of AIX install with NIM
• Mksysb backup and restore from NIM
• AIX install with mksysb backup
• Migration / Preservation installation

Usual Batch Timings: Batch Timings: Morning or Evening 7:00 – 9:00 Monday to Saturday

Practical Timings: 09:30 – 22:30 HRS :: Monday to Sunday