1. UNIX/AIX COURSE OUTLINES AND SYLLABUS Document Version: 1.0 Created on: 09/19/2014 Author: Walter Takang Confirmed by: Walter Takang

2. The Saturday of August 23rd 2014 Introduction to Unix The different flavors of Unix The IBM version of Unix-Aix HMC (Hardware Management Console) DLPAR Dedicated CPU Shared CPU Micro-Partitioning Introduction to IBM Power Systems (Pseries) How to create IBM LPAR (Logical Partition) Hypervisor HMC default username and Password

3. The Saturday of August 30th 2014 Introduction to IBM VIO Servers Special properties of VIO Servers How to configure a VIO Server Different ways to share disks/SAN/Storage NPIV SEA (Shared Ethernet adapter) How to create vhost and its role Mapping of VIO Server to Client LPARs

4. The Saturday of September 6th 2014 Files and Directories What is a file What is a directory What is a sub-directory How to create a file How to delete a file How to rename a file How to edit a file File permissions How to create a directory Changing directories How to delete a directory Permission of a directory

5. The Saturday of September 13 th 2014 Chapter 12: Systems Performance Performance Monitoring software Threshold values Performance related parameters/metrics: CPU, Memory, File Systems, disk space utilization, Network parameters How to address performance related CPU issues How address performance related memory issues: pagingspace – pageout and pagein How to address performance related File Systems issues How to address disk space utilization issues

6. The Saturday of September 20 th 2014 Practical on Files and directories, and chapter 12 Systems Performance Login to the system as a root user Run the commands to show the user List all the files and sub-directories in your current directories Create a file name test1 Rename the file test1 as test2 Write the message: I love Unix and want to be the best at it Create a directory called directory1 What is the permission on both test2 and directory1 Change the permission on test2 to read, write, and execute for all. Delete file test2 and directory1

7. Practical cont’d With the help of commands and comments explain all the steps involve in fixing high CPU usage of 90% in an Aix system. With the help of commands and comments explain all the steps involve in fixing high memory utilization in an Aix system. With the help of commands and comments explain all the steps involve in fixing high File Systems usage of 90% in an Aix system Determine how many days the system has been up since last reboot List all the processes running on the system

8. Chapter 13: User Administration and practical Users Groups User administration related files How to create users How unlock/lock a user account How to reset a user account

9. The Saturday of September 27 th 2014 Chapter 4: Systems and Software installation and Practical Three types of base AIX operating system installation - New and complete overwrite installation - migration installation - preservation installation Advance installation option Installing package set or desktop Enable Trusted Computing Base (TCB) Enable 64-bit kernel and JFS2

10. Understanding maintenance level Software Packaging Filesets Packages Licensed Program Product (lpp) Bundles PTFs and APARs Patches installp command Software installation IBM Fix Central PMR Chapter 15: Send mail and e-mail. Practical

11. The Saturday of October 4 th 2014 Chapter 6: Storage Management, LVM, and File Systems and Practical/Chapter 5: Object Data Manager (ODM) Logical Volume Storage Concepts Logical volume Manager Disk quorum Disk mirroring ODM (Object Data Manager) Volume group Logical Volume Physical volume (Physical Disk) Physical Partitions File Systems

12. The Saturday of October 11 th 2014 HACMP (POWERHA) Practical

13. The Saturday of October 18 th 2014 Chapter 7: System Paging Space and Practical Chapter 8: System Backup, restores, and Availability

14. The Saturday of October 25 th 2014 Chapter 10: Network administration and Practical. Chapter 2: System Startup and Problem Hnadling

15. The Saturday of November 1 st 2014 Chapter 9: System Resource Controller and Administration and Practical Chapter 14: Printing

16. The Saturday of November 8 th 2014 Chapter 11: Network File Systems administration. Practical Chapter 3: Hardware Assistance

17. The Saturday of November 15 th 2014 Last day of class. General Review