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AIX System Administration Corporate Training Program for Employees
Equip your IT operations and infrastructure teams to install, configure, secure, and tune business-critical IBM AIX systems with Edstellar's instructor-led, fully customized AIX System Administration training, delivered onsite or online worldwide.
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AIX System Administration is the practice of installing, configuring, securing, and maintaining IBM AIX, the enterprise UNIX operating system that runs on IBM Power Systems. It covers user and group management, device and storage administration with the Logical Volume Manager and the Journaled File System, the SMIT management interface, backup and restore, the boot process, and systematic problem determination. AIX System Administration training gives your teams the practical skills to keep business-critical AIX servers available, secure, and performing, so the mission-critical workloads your organization depends on run without interruption.
As organizations continue to run core banking, ERP, and database workloads on IBM Power and AIX, this program helps your IT operations teams administer, secure, and optimize AIX environments with confidence. Empower your people with expert-led on-site, off-site, and virtual sessions delivered by Edstellar, a premier corporate training provider serving organizations worldwide in-person and virtually across popular languages. Built around your goals, the program turns AIX System Administration skills into lasting capabilities that lift performance across infrastructure, operations, and support teams.
By the end of the program, your teams can manage AIX users, devices, file systems, and storage, automate routine administration, harden systems, and diagnose and resolve issues quickly. The outcome is higher server uptime, faster incident resolution, stronger security and compliance, and reduced reliance on scarce external AIX expertise, so your organization protects the business-critical systems that run on IBM Power.
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- Navigate and administer AIX using the System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) and the core command line.
- Manage AIX user accounts, groups, and password security in line with organizational policy.
- Administer devices, printers, and the AIX queueing system across the server estate.
- Configure and manage storage with the Logical Volume Manager and the Journaled File System.
- Plan and run reliable backups, restores, and the AIX boot and shutdown processes.
- Diagnose and resolve boot, hardware, and system issues using AIX problem-determination techniques.
- Role of the AIX system administrator
- Core responsibilities and daily tasks in an AIX environment
- Balancing technical operations with service and uptime goals
- Working with the root account
- Use the root login ID safely and apply least-privilege practices
- Avoid common administrative pitfalls and security risks
- Essential AIX knowledge
- Core concepts every AIX administrator must master
- Continuous learning across AIX versions and Power systems
- Moving from UNIX to AIX administration
- Map existing UNIX skills to their AIX equivalents
- Recognize the key differences in AIX system management
- Navigating SMIT
- Use the SMIT menus, fast paths, and screens
- Run common administrative tasks through SMIT
- Logs and scripts
- Review smit.log and smit.script for auditing
- Reuse generated commands to automate routine tasks
- User account attributes
- Define and modify user account properties
- Set login, environment, and security attributes
- Group management
- Create and manage groups and group policies
- Apply membership strategies for access control
- Password security
- Enforce strong password and login policies
- Manage password rules across the user base
- Key management files
- Understand the structure of AIX user and group files
- Edit and maintain configuration files safely
- User services and limits
- Configure user services and resource limits
- Manage environments for different user roles
- Device management strategy
- Build a device management plan and best practices
- Track device states across the server estate
- ODM and the configuration manager
- Use the Object Data Manager and Configuration Manager
- Add, configure, and remove devices reliably
- Device commands
- Apply lsdev, cfgmgr, and related device commands
- Resolve common device configuration issues
- Queueing concepts
- Understand AIX print and queue architecture
- Plan queue design for the organization
- Managing printers and queues
- Set up, start, and manage printers and queues
- Apply queue management and prioritization techniques
- Troubleshooting queues
- Identify and correct queue configuration problems
- Apply best practices for reliable printing
- File and file system types
- Classify AIX file and file system types
- Choose the right type for each workload
- Managing file systems
- Create, mount, and monitor file systems
- Track usage and capacity for performance
- Inodes and directories
- Understand inodes, directories, and pathnames
- Manage file system objects efficiently
- JFS features and structure
- Understand JFS and JFS2 architecture and benefits
- Compare the journaled file system options
- Managing journaled file systems
- Create, extend, and remove journaled file systems
- Apply best practices and resolve common issues
- Defragmentation and inodes
- Defragment file systems for sustained performance
- Manage inodes for optimal capacity
- LVM features and disk I/O
- Understand physical volumes, volume groups, and partitions
- Optimize disk I/O strategies with LVM
- Managing storage with LVM
- Create and manage volume groups and logical volumes
- Apply best practices for complex environments
- Mirroring and resilience
- Configure mirroring for higher availability
- Develop volume strategies for business-critical data
- Backup types and strategy
- Compare AIX backup types and methods
- Build a comprehensive backup strategy
- Backup and restore tools
- Select and use the right backup tools
- Restore file systems and individual files
- Data protection practices
- Apply techniques for different backup needs
- Ensure data safety and recoverability
- Understanding the boot process
- Walk through the AIX boot steps and components
- Troubleshoot common boot issues
- Start-up configuration
- Manage configuration and start-up scripts
- Control the services that start at boot
- Shutdown procedures
- Apply safe halt and shutdown procedures
- Follow emergency shutdown protocols
- Problem determination techniques
- Apply a systematic approach to diagnosing issues
- Identify root causes across the AIX stack
- Boot and hardware diagnostics
- Resolve boot problems and run hardware diagnostics
- Use diagnostic tools to isolate faults
- Error logs and system dumps
- Manage the AIX error log for early warnings
- Analyze system dumps to resolve failures
- System Administrators
- UNIX Administrators
- IT Managers
- Technical Support Specialists
- Network Administrators
- Infrastructure Engineers
- Operations Managers
- Systems Engineers
- Database Administrators
- IT Support Engineers
- Application Administrators
- Technical Consultants
No prior AIX experience is required, though participants will benefit most from a working knowledge of UNIX or Linux command-line basics and general system administration concepts. The program suits system and UNIX administrators, infrastructure and operations engineers, and IT support staff who manage or plan to manage IBM Power and AIX environments. Edstellar tailors the depth, examples, and hands-on labs to your AIX version, your hardware estate, and the workloads your organization runs.
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64 hours of group training (includes VILT/In-person On-site)
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