Provide focused training for experienced UNIX administrators on how to install, customize, and administer the AIX operating system in a multiuser Power System partitioned environment. The course is based on AIX 6 and AIX 7 running on a Power System managed by Hardware Management Console (HMC) and provides practical discussions that are appropriate to earlier AIX releases.

- 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 Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) networking

This intermediate course is intended for experienced UNIX system administrators (HP-UX, Solaris, or other UNIX) who need training to support their transition to supporting AIX running on

POWER processor based systems in a multiuser Power System partitioned environment.

Day 1:
- Unit 1: Introduction to AIX and IBM Power systems
- Exercise 1
- Unit 2: AIX system management tools
- Exercise 2
- Unit 3: AIX software installation and maintenance
- Exercise 3
- Unit 4: System configuration and devices
- Exercise 4

Day 2:
- Unit 5: TCP/IP networking
- Exercise 5
- Unit 6: System startup and shutdown
- Exercise 6
- Unit 7: Basics of configuring logical partitions
- Exercise 7
- Unit 8: AIX installation
- Exercise 8
- Unit 9: Working with the Logical Volume Manager
- Exercise 9

Day 3:
- Unit 10: File systems administration
- Exercise 10
- Unit 11: LVM metadata
- Exercise 11
- Unit 12: Disk management procedures
- Exercise 12
- Unit 13: Backup and restore
- Exercise 13

Day 4:
- Unit 14: The Object Data Manager
- Exercise 14
- Unit 15: Error monitoring
- Exercise 15
- Unit 16: System initialization - I
- Exercise 16 (parts 1-4)

Day 5:
- Unit 17: System initialization - II
- Exercise 17
- Unit 18: The AIX system dump facility
- Exercise 18
- Unit 19: Advanced install techniques
- Unit 19 part I: Alternate disk installation
- Exercise 19: Alternate disk - part 1 (pre-clone)
- Unit 19 part II: Using multibos
- Exercise 19: Alternate disk - part 2 (post-clone)
- Exercise 19: multibos
- Optional Appendix A: Survey of additional AIX facilities

The students attending this course should already be able to use basic UNIX commands to:
- 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

The above skills can be acquired by attending AIX Basics (AN10D1DE) or through equivalent AIX/UNIX knowledge.

In addition, students are expected to have hands-on 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