AN15G: Power Systems for AIX 3: Advanced Administration and Problem Determination

You should have basic AIX System Administration skills. These skills include:

• Use of the Hardware Management Console (HMC) to activate a logical partition running AIX and to access the AIX system console
• Install an AIX operating system from an already configured NIM server
• Implementation of AIX backup and recovery
• Manage additional software and base operating system updates
• Familiarity with management tools such as SMIT
• Understand how to manage file systems, logical volumes, and volume groups
• Understand basic Workload Partition (WPAR) concepts and commands (recommended for the WPAR Manager content)
• Mastery of the UNIX user interface including use of the vi editor, command execution, input and output redirection, and the use of utilities such as grep

These skills could be developed through experience or by formal training. Recommended training courses to obtain these prerequisite skills are either of the following:

• Power Systems for AIX 2: AIX Implementation and Administration Kurs AN12D1DE (until 2009: AU14D0DE) and its prerequisites

If the student has AIX system administration skills, but is not familiar with the LPAR environment, those skills may be obtained by attending either of the following:

• Power Systems for AIX 1: LPAR Configuration and Planning Kurs AN11D1DE
• Power Systems for AIX - Virtualization 1: Implementing Virtualization Kurs AN30D1DE (until 2009: AU73D1DE)